Mr. Richard Stiennon

Council Member Biography

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, an independent analyst firm he founded that researches 1,200 IT security vendors. Mr. Stiennon is a security industry expert and author of Surviving Cyberwar (Rowman&Littlefield, 2010) and Cyber Defense: Countering Targeted Attacks (Rowman&Littlefield, 2013) He is the Senior Fellow at the International Cybersecurity Dialogue. He writes the Cyber Domain blog for Forbes.com. Mr. Stiennon was Chief Marketing Officer at Fortinet, Inc., the leading UTM vendor, until January 2008. Prior to Fortinet, he was Vice President of Threat Research at Webroot Software, where he evangelized Webroot's battle against adware and spyware vendors. He represented Webroot at the Anti-Spyware Coalition in Washington, DC and assisted congressional staffers in formulating security legislation. Mr. Stiennon was Vice President of Research at Gartner and Manager of Technical Risk Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has presented at conferences and customer events in 28 countries and has been widely quoted in the press. -- Stiennon has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and is currently enrolled in the M.A. in War in the Modern World program at King's College London. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2008 - Unspecified

Chief Research Analyst, IT-HARVEST, LLC

2006 - 2008

Chief Marketing Officer, FORTINET, INC.

2004 - 2006

VP Threat Research, WEBROOT INC.

2000 - 2004

VP Research, GARTNER, INC.

1996 - 1999

Manager Technical Risk Services, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS