Daniel Kennedy is the Research Director for Information Security for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise (VoTE) quantitative research product, where he is responsible for managing all phases of the research process. He is an experienced information security professional who has written for both Forbes online and Ziff Davis, has provided commentary to numerous news outlets including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his personal blog Praetorian Prefect was recognized as one of the top five technical blogs in information security by the RSA 2010 Conference.
Prior to 451 he was a Partner in the information security consultancy Praetorian Security, LLC where he directed strategy on risk assessment and security certification. Before that he was Global Head of Information Security for D.B. Zwirn & Co. as well as Vice President of Application Security and Development Manager at Pershing LLC, a division of the Bank of New York.
Daniel holds a Master’s of Science degree in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Master’s of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University, and a Bachelors of Science in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University. He has gained certification as a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council, a CISSP, and has a NASD Series 7 license.
451 Research has announced the recipients of our Firestarter awards for the first quarter of 2020. Firestarter recipients are firms specifically recognized by 451 analysts for innovation and market disruption. The companies being recognized with 451 Firestarter awards this quarter are detailed here.
This Voice of the Enterprise: Information Security survey wave was completed during November and December 2019. The survey represents approximately 500 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers. In addition to regular quarterly topics, this survey focuses on security budget outlooks for information security for 2020, as well as cloud security.
As organizations look to cloud environments as a regular destination for existing or new workloads, security teams have been working to more thoroughly understand the threat environment and address issues that arise. Many vendors have been upgrading their capabilities, which is precisely what Rapid7 is looking to do by reaching for DivvyCloud.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Information Security, Budgets & Outlook survey wave was completed during November and December 2019. The survey represents approximately 500 completes from pre-qualified IT decision-makers. In addition to regular quarterly topics, this survey also focuses on budget, spending and decision-making trends in information security.
With a sudden and pervasive shift to remote work, enterprises are coming face-to-face with yet another difficult reality: their strategy for secure remote access is out of date. How will these businesses cope with a sudden and dramatic increase in demand " and how will they need to re-architect security to sustain remote work, now and in the near future?
The impact of COVID-19, and the sudden and radical shift in the nature of the workplace it is precipitating, has decided implications for security across the board. We examine the role of technology in dealing with the emerging pandemic, and how it can help organizations cope with the crisis.
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