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Our seasoned analysts couple their industry-leading B2B research with in-depth buyer intent data for unparalleled insights about critical technology markets.
Clients trust us across their GTMs—from strategy and product development to competitive insights and content creation—because we deliver high-quality, actionable support.
Browse our extensive library of research reports, research-based content, and blogs for actionable data and expert analysis of the latest B2B technology trends, market dynamics, and business opportunities.
Principal Analyst Tyler Shields is a veteran market analyst with more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity technologies and markets.
At Enterprise Strategy Group, Tyler helps cybersecurity vendors define their product strategies, identify market opportunities, and achieve optimal customer fit. He also leverages his extensive knowledge to guide companies in developing and positioning their cybersecurity solutions effectively. Tyler’s expertise is particularly valuable in the rapidly evolving landscape of vulnerability management, risk analysis, threat identification, and offensive security technologies.
Prior to joining ESG, Tyler held several high-profile positions in the cybersecurity sector, including Vice President of Marketing at Traceable.AI, Chief Marketing Officer at JupiterOne and Signal Sciences, and Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Sonatype. He is a respected thought leader in cybersecurity, business strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Tyler holds a Masters of Computer Science from James Madison University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he also serves as an Adjunct Professor.
Cybersecurity isn’t just about patching holes; it’s about predicting where the next breach might occur. It’s a constant game of chess against unseen adversaries, where staying one move ahead can mean the difference between security and catastrophe.”
Tyler Shields Principal Analyst, Risk & Vulnerability Management
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 […]
Principal Analyst Mark Beccue is one of a handful of pioneering analysts who began to focus on AI market research in 2015 and is considered one of the top advisers and thought leaders in AI and generative AI market research.
His expertise in AI use cases, applications/software and services, natural language AI and broader trends surrounding AI market adoption have made him a well-known adviser and sought after speaker, panel moderator, conference chair and media resource who can develop and communicate AI market analysis designed for business audiences.
Mark has deep experience in the technology business. Before becoming a tech market research analyst in 2008, Mark worked for 10 years for a global telecom software company in product management, greenhouse innovation and marketing roles. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Florida.
Generative AI holds great promise, but we have barely scratched the surface of how to harness it. Savvy businesses will be patient, pragmatic, and responsible in their approach.”
Mark Beccue Principal Analyst, Artificial Intelligence
Torsten Volk has a proven track record in application development, IT operations, and machine learning.
He leverages experience from both sides of the DevOps equation, combined with cloud-native expertise, to help organizations solve complex business problems through innovative technologies.
Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Torsten held senior roles in product management, marketing, software development, and operations. He delivered complex software solutions to major organizations including Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, and World Bank Group.
Torsten holds a bachelor’s degree in business and international relations and an MBA from the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Platform engineers hold the keys to optimizing the app development lifecycle while maximizing operational efficiency, security, compliance, cost management, business agility, and organizational culture, making this discipline a critical component of modern enterprise strategy.”
Torsten Volk Principal Analyst, Application Modernization
Principal Analyst Jim Frey has 30+ years of experience in networking and network management tools, technologies, and best practices as well as software product development, management, and marketing.
Jim was formerly VP Partner Marketing for Kentik Technologies, where he held senior leadership roles related to channel and technology alliance ecosystems and business development. Prior to joining Kentik, he held positions in industry research, marketing, product management, and software engineering, including roles at the executive level for the past 23 years.
Jim holds a BSc in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and MSc in Computer and Information Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Networks are the essential underpinning of the digital world. Building and managing them for reliability and performance, despite constantly changing business requirements, must be a top priority for all IT organizations.”
Many organizations today rely on multiple cloud services to match the needs of their various IT operations, but this introduces a complex set of challenges for the networking teams in charge of such environments. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group revealed that these teams have concerns about cybersecurity in multi-cloud networking environments as well […]
Principal Analyst Todd Thiemann has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity marketing and strategy. Todd helps clients understand emerging market trends, refine messaging, and distinguish themselves in the marketplace.
Todd has spent most of his career leading cybersecurity marketing and product marketing at category leaders including ReliaQuest, Arctic Wolf Networks, Vormetic (now Thales), Nok Nok Labs, and Trend Micro where he helped articulate compelling messaging and executed successful go-to-market strategies. He holds a BS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles.
A significant challenge in cybersecurity is overcoming enterprise inertia—identity and data protection solutions need to deliver change providing greater control, automation, and scale.”
Organizations continue to rely on identities that are susceptible to compromise, abuse, misuse, and theft. Risk is compounded by over-permissive, static access rights that provide little to no visibility into access trends or, most importantly, who is accessing what and how they are doing so. Despite the transformation to a dynamic, amorphous perimeter, a multitude […]
Senior Analyst Jon Brown has 20+ years of experience in IT product management as well as a passion for marketing and product positioning.
Jon was formerly Vice President, Market Insights at TechTarget, Enterprise Strategy Group’s parent company, and Publisher of TechTarget CIO, TechTarget IT Operations, and TechTarget Sustainability & ESG.
Prior to joining TechTarget and Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon held product, sales, and business management leadership roles at a variety of enterprise software firms. He holds a BA from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and an MBA from The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Sustainability is rising as a purchase decision factor, and all IT vendors must be able to demonstrate their commitment to these principles or face potential elimination from purchase consideration by multinational organizations.”
Jon Brown Senior Analyst, Data Protection, Ops & Sustainability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world of backup and recovery, bringing new opportunities and challenges for organizations that want to protect and leverage their data assets for business value. AI can help automate backup and recovery processes, improve data security and resilience, enable data reuse and insights, and optimize costs and performance. However, AI […]
Senior Analyst Stephen Catanzano brings more than 20 years of industry experience and deep expertise in data management to his role at Enterprise Strategy Group, where he focuses on how organizations can build a strong data foundation for generative AI and operationalize data at scale to maximize organizational value.
Alongside his operational roles in larger enterprises, Stephen has successfully created and grown multiple SaaS startups, led M&A transactions, and raised both venture and private equity capital.
Stephen holds a BS in Finance and Economics from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Maximizing the value of data is about building data-driven organizations by turning data at scale into intelligence for faster corporate and consumer decision-making, quicker innovations, competitive advantages, and achieving operational efficiencies.”
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on data user trends, data classification and lineage, drivers behind data governance strategies, challenges with data governance adoption, the impact of AI on data governance, the importance of data governance elements, and investment plans. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are […]
Principal Analyst John Grady uses his nearly 20 years of IT vendor and analyst experience to help clients identify and understand key market trends, refine their messaging, and be more successful in the marketplace.
Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, John spent four years at Symantec, where he was responsible for market insights and analytics supporting product, go-to-market, and executive stakeholders.
Previously, John worked as an analyst at IDC covering network, web, and email protection and leading initial research initiatives on then-emerging areas such as advanced threat prevention and DDoS protection. As an analyst, he has also focused on infrastructure channels, advising clients on indirect go-to-market strategies.
John has written for Dark Reading and has been quoted in Network World, CSO, eWeek, CRN, Silicon Angle, ITPro, SDX, HelpNet Security, and TechTarget, among others. He holds a BA in History from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.
For all the talk of the perimeter being dead, network security remains a fundamental aspect of IT security. That said, the distributed nature of the modern enterprise creates new challenges that must be addressed. So, the pace of change and innovation in this space has quickened.”
John Grady Principal Analyst, Network Security & Web Application Security
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the top use cases for SaaS security, the benefits realized or expected by organizations implementing different SaaS security practices, and the key stakeholders across the SaaS security buyer’s journey. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are not yet a Subscription […]
Principal Analyst Dave Gruber helps product marketing and management leaders develop winning strategies in highly competitive markets.
Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Dave held executive leadership roles at successful endpoint and application security companies. Most recently, he was the VP of Product Marketing at Carbon Black through its IPO, and previously he was VP of Products at Black Duck Software (acquired by Synopsys) where he led product marketing and product management.
In his current analyst role, Dave researches CISOs’ and security teams’ most pressing needs, working together with security vendors to develop successful product and go-to-market strategies, positioning, and messaging. Building on a strong technical background with early roles in enterprise application development, Dave became interested in figuring out why some products were more successful than others, which eventually led him to senior roles in software product management and product marketing.
Dave has appeared in Cybersecurity News, SC, InfoSecurity, TechRepublic, Dark Reading, RSAC, and ITPro Today, among others. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maine in Orono.
Converging disparate tools into a smaller number of mini platforms is helping reduce complexity while increasing efficacy through more tightly integrated security controls and operational workflows.”
Dave Gruber Principal Analyst, Ransomware, SecOps & Services
Security operations grow more difficult each year due to issues such as the persistent threat landscape, a growing attack surface, and the volume and complexity of security alerts. Additionally, many SOC teams remain understaffed and lack advanced security operations skills. To address these challenges, CISOs are open to evaluating new technologies in areas like advanced […]
Principal Analyst Gabe Knuth uses his experience as a practitioner, analyst, product marketer, and end-user computing (EUC) community leader to help organizations build successful go-to-market strategies.
The role of EUC and UCC has taken center stage for most organizations, and the influx of technology coupled with disruption among traditional EUC vendors has created a hyper-competitive market with lots of opportunities.
Over a career spanning 25+ years, Gabe has been an IT practitioner working with complex organizational structures on large-scale projects, and he has been involved with the EUC community as a respected blogger and speaker at industry events, user groups, and advisory board meetings. This background serves as the foundation for his analyst role at Enterprise Strategy Group, where he focuses on helping vendors take their products to market through multi-faceted campaigns that effectively communicate solutions to the increasingly complex challenges their customers face.
Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Gabe held marketing roles at prominent vendors such as FSLogix, Microsoft, and most recently VMware, where he led the GTM for VMware’s flagship desktop-as-a-service platform, Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. He has spoken at industry events such as Citrix Synergy, VMworld, VMware Explore, Microsoft Ignite, Igel Disrupt, XenAppBlog VirtualExpo, and EUC Masters Retreat. His writing has appeared on the VMware blog and the TechTarget network of sites (including BrianMadden.com).
End-user devices such as laptops and smartphones connect workers to the critical digital infrastructure that they need to access to get their jobs done. But users’ device preferences can vary by factors such as role, comfort level with certain technologies, and more. Recent research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group asked IT decision-makers about their organizations’ […]
Principal Analyst Mike Leone leads ESG’s analyst team focused on data management, analytics and artificial intelligence.
Mike draws upon his enthusiasm for bleeding-edge technology and his engineering and marketing background to provide a unique perspective to enterprise technology vendors. At Enterprise Strategy Group, Mike focuses on all things data, analytics, and AI. His passion shines through in helping organizations improve everything from go-to-market strategies and messaging to product development and content creation.
Mike has a strong technical background, with early roles in software and hardware engineering focused on future product feasibility, modeling, and performance. He gradually moved into roles that interfaced with marketing by helping translate deep technical concepts into understandable business benefits.
Mike holds a BS in Computer Science from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.
While data has the power to transform the business in radical ways, achieving data excellence requires an equal balance of tightly integrated technology, well-defined processes, and the empowerment of all stakeholders to confidently bring the right data to every decision.”
Mike Leone Practice Director, Data Management, Analytics & AI
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on responsible AI maturity, prioritization, best practices, terms, outcomes, challenges, responses to issues, bias mitigation, measurements, acceptable fairness levels, data and analytics impact, and stakeholders. Already an Enterprise Strategy Group client? Log in to read the full report. If you are not yet a Subscription Client but would like to […]
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.
Areas of Expertise
API Security
Application Security
Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms
Cloud-native Technologies
Container Security
Secure DevOps (DevSecOps)
Web Application Security Testing (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA)
Security solutions are evolving rapidly to meet the needs of rapid modern software development lifecycles and digital transformation leveraging cloud platforms.”
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 […]
