About the Author

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the booming IT security industry. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010). He recently joined the advisory board of the Information Governance Initiative, and serves on the advisory boards of several security startups. He was Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner, Inc. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (Michigan) and his MA in War in the Modern World from King's College, London.