About
Practice Director Melinda Marks leads ESG’s analyst team focused on cybersecurity. Melinda covers technologies that help organizations scale safely while adopting faster cloud-native development cycles.
With more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing and strategy, Melinda is passionate about conveying product value and differentiation and driving revenue.
Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Melinda was chief marketing and strategy officer for Soluble, a startup focused on automating application security testing for developers (acquired by Lacework). She was also VP of Marketing at Armorblox, VP of Marketing at Styra, and head of marketing for StackRox (acquired by Red Hat). Her experience includes running competitive/market intelligence and product marketing teams at Tenable and running global communications for four years at Qualys. She also spent many years at VMware, where she built its original customer reference program, led product PR, and was on the core planning team for VMworld since its inception.
Melinda is a Synopsys Outreach Foundation board member. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
Security solutions are evolving rapidly to meet the needs of rapid modern software development lifecycles and digital transformation leveraging cloud platforms.”
Melinda Marks
Practice Director, Cybersecurity
Survey Results
2024 Cloud Security Platforms and DevSecOps
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the scope of cloud-native application development environments, including the top challenges associated with securing cloud-native applications and the security solutions in place to protect cloud infrastructure and applications. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are not yet a Subscription Client […]
Melinda Has Appeared In
Latest Insights from Melinda
Research Brief | November 26, 2024
The State of DevSecOps: Shifting Security Left to Optimize Remediation Throughout the Development Lifecycle
Research Brief | November 26, 2024
The State of the Journey to Using Cloud Security Platforms to Reduce Cybersecurity Incidents and Scale to Support Growth
Research Brief | November 25, 2024
The Opportunity for Security Posture Management (ASPM) Solutions to Support Application Security Modernization
Research Brief | November 25, 2024