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Chris Silva
VP Analyst
Chris Silva is a Vice President advising Gartner's CISO, Security Architect, IT Leader, Vendor and investor clients on how to build modern, resilient workspace, network and endpoint security strategy. Chris's background in advisory, consulting and IT support offer a unique perspective to support Gartner's clients. Chris's business and technology insights support organizations seeking to modernize their endpoint and mobile defenses, vendors making investments in these technologies and the investment professionals that, in turn, invest in cybersecurity markets. Outside of work, Chris can often be found cycling, hiking, re-stringing one of too many instruments or spending as much time as possible on the ocean in and around New England.
Previous experience
Chris has dedicated his career to providing trusted advice on IT strategy for end users and market and product strategy for IT vendors. His experience spans network infrastructure, IT Operations and endpoint security topics.
Chris has interwoven his analyst work with experience in market sizing and forecasting for private equity clients, product strategy for financial services clients, IT support and product marketing roles throughout his career.
His professional background includes work in scoping and managing complex, research-backed consulting engagements, conducting primary research to inform strategic private equity investments and running marketing and PR functions for a boutique analyst firm focused on SaaS software.
Professional background
Altimeter Group, Senior Analyst, 2 years
The Institute for Applied Network Security, Senior Vice President, Research and Service Delivery, 2 years
Forrester Research, Senior Analyst, 5 years
Areas of coverage
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Infrastructure Security
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Select Cybersecurity and IAM Tools to Enable Future-Ready Architectures
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Build a New Cybersecurity Foundation
Education
B.S., Marketing, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Endpoint protection platforms (EPP) Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Endpoint (PC and mobile) protections and hardening
Bring Your Own Mobile Device (BYOD), Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC)
Application Runtime Controls
Secure Service Edge/SASE/Secure Enterprise Browser