Richard Stiennon

Richard Stiennon is the Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 3,300+ vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents and was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of "Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey," "UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tacts of Analyst Influence," "Surviving Cyberwar," and The Washington Post Best-Seller "There Will Be Cyberwar." He writes for Forbes, CSO Magazine, and The Analyst Syndicate.

Additionally, Stiennon's "Security Yearbook 2020" was launched in February 2020. It is the only history of the IT security industry and is updated each year with a complete directory of all security product vendors listed by category and country. He has since released a 2021, 2022, 2023, and upcoming 2024 version. He also published "Curmudgeon: How to Succeed as an Industry Analyst" in 2020, the first book on how to become and excel as an industry analyst.

He is a member of the advisory board at the Information Governance Initiative and several technology startups. Stiennon was the Chief Strategy Officer for Blancco Technology Group, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc., and the Vice President of Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Research at Gartner, Inc. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an MA in War in the Modern World from King’s College, London.