Steve was a Senior Analyst within 451 Research's Enterprise Security Practice, providing in-depth, timely perspectives on the state of enterprise security and emerging trends. Steve's primary area of coverage is on identity and access management, with his research currently focused on understanding the impact on identity from shifts in the IT consumption model.
Steve rejoined 451 Research after serving as director of product marketing at Whale Communications, a secure remote-access vendor acquired by Microsoft in 2006. At Whale, he was responsible for implementing the product marketing strategy for a corporate repositioning, and he worked on post-acquisition strategy. Before joining 451 Research at its inception in April 2000 and serving as both director of M&A and network and security research, Steve covered technology and economic trends for European financial newswire AFX News as the San Francisco Bureau Chief.
Steve has a degree in Linguistics and Zulu from the University of Cape Town, where he graduated with honors, and an MA in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Drawing on experience in identity management implementation best practices, Identropy aims to push a new model for the management of identities framed by business process and activity data and based on new design principles.
Fidelis' strategy revamp, which shifted the emphasis onto visibility and analysis for security operations and away from DLP, has paid off in the form of an acquisition by an SI that saw value in the target's federal penetration for its cybersecurity push.
Implementing key chain sharing for mobile applications and proxying streaming protocols, Layer 7 is aiming to make early headway in an architectural transition.
Although the company just recently launched, and single-customer-facing applications is where it has seen traction, Stormpath could help shape the role that identity plays in the PaaS wars, and integration into the app development lifecycle.
Moving into legal and compliance use cases, CipherCloud has expanded its connector library to Gmail and Office365 alongside a SDK for private cloud apps – reinforcing its ambitions to provide a security gateway for the distributed enterprise edge.
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