Research Director, Security & Trust Products
Chris Kissel is a Research Director in IDC's Security & Trust Products group, responsible for cybersecurity technology analysis, emerging trends, and market share reporting. Mr. Kissel’s primary research area is Cybersecurity Analytics, Intelligence, Response, and Orchestration (AIRO). The major technology groups within this practice are SIEM, device and application vulnerability management, threat analytics, and automation and orchestration platforms. Mr. Kissel affectively covers the processes that security operation center (SOC) analysts employ to monitor, detect, remediate, and mitigate threat actors attempting to attack a network within a security and vulnerability management and security analytics paradigm.
BACKGROUND
Previously, Chris was a Senior Analyst at Frost & Sullivan where his main area of coverage was SVM related technologies; vulnerability management (VM), security information and event management (SIEM), network access control (NAC), network security forensics, and incident detection and response (IDR) platforms. Prior to Frost & Sullivan, Mr. Kissel was a Senior Analyst for In-Stat in LTE and Cellular Infrastructure and this practice included base station deployments, spectrum licensing, and cellular backhaul. Mr. Kissel covered PC Chipsets, multimedia applications such as PC-TV tuners and Blu ray DVD.
EDUCATION/INDUSTRY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Influences financiers and venture capitalists with interests in cybersecurity.
- Frequent speaker, presenter and moderator at industry conferences and contributor to media outlets including Forbes, EETimes, SC Magazine, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Arizona Republic.
- Comprehensive coverage of all facets of the IDR lifecycle including published reports about VM, SIEM, network security forensics, the role of analytics, AI and machine learning in incident response, and IT ticketing and remediation tools.
- Developed and maintained forecast models for SVM technologies for three years prior to a base year and five years after the base year in multiple disciplines.
- Quantified base station counts for 30 separate countries, and modeled backhaul frequencies mediums for 5 wireline methods (copper, cable, etc.), and 6 wireless frequency bands (licensed/unlicensed spectrum, high frequency, etc.).
