Andrew Hay was a Senior Security Analyst for 451 Research's Enterprise Security Practice (ESP). Andrew provided technology vendors, private equity firms, venture capitalists and end users with strategic advisory services including competitive research, new product and go-to-market positioning, investment due diligence and tactical partnership, and M&A strategy.
Through his work at 451 Research, Andrew has been instrumental in securing tens of millions of dollars in equity investment for numerous security product vendors. He is a veteran strategist with more than 12 years of experience related to endpoint, network and security management across various product sectors, including security information and event management (SIEM); log management; deep packet inspection (DPI); vulnerability management; intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS); firewall; threat intelligence; application whitelisting; network and host forensics; incident response; and governance, risk and compliance (GRC).
Before joining 451 Research, Andrew worked in the Information Security Office (ISO) of the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada and, prior to that, at a privately held bank in Hamilton, Bermuda; in each position, he was responsible for strategically designing, driving and executing the goals and objectives of the organization's information security programs. Prior to that, Andrew served in various roles at Q1 Labs, including Engineering Manager, Product Manager and finally as the Program Manager responsible for the entire portfolio of third-party technology partner relationships.
Andrew was honored with the title of Security Thought Leader in May 2008 by the SANS Institute; named an IT Knowledge Exchange blogger of the week in June 2009; listed as one of the Most Powerful Voices in Security by SYS-CON Media's Jim Kaskade in September 2011; and named one of Tripwire Inc.'s Top 25 Security People to Follow in December 2011. He is a sought-after speaker, and has presented at numerous international security conferences such as the SOURCE Conference, SANS What Works in Forensics and Incident Response Summit, SANS Network Security, Security BSides, RSA Security Conference, Americas Growth Capital and the joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security.
Andrew is frequently approached to provide expert commentary on security-industry developments, and has been interviewed by members of the press for such publications as The Sacramento Bee, eWeek, TechTarget, Wired Magazine, Network World and CSO Magazine, in addition to podcasts such as the Data Security Podcast, Forensic4Cast, SecuraBit, PaulDotCom, Security.Exe, Beyond The Perimeter, The Risk Hose, Security Roundtable and Tenable Network Security. He was formally the founder and cohost of the LogChat podcast with Dr. Anton Chuvakin. Andrew also has written articles for several trade publications such as Information Week Magazine, DarkReading and Network Computing on various security-related topics.
Is the combination of eEye's vulnerability management and BeyondTrust's privilege management and endpoint controls a 'strength in numbers' play, or is it a transformative deal? Perhaps both: some financial alchemy and deeper security smarts.
With fresh funding, added features and a bigger family, the company continues to expand its core Halo portfolio with new cloud-oriented security and compliance products.
The security industry has another long-awaited debut, this time from a company that has seen an astonishing growth rate. The IPO is likely to value fast-growing Palo Alto at more than $2bn out of the gate.
Keeping one finger in the enterprise security pot, Splunk updates its security-centric App, the underlying platform and scores a new patent to bolster its IPO sticker price.
After adding several new products and services to its growing security and compliance portfolio, Qualys let the cats out of the product roadmap bag at the annual RSA Security Conference.
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