ESW #304 – Alla Valente, Heidi Shey, Joseph Blankenship

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1. Q&A: Cyber Insurance – Alla Valente, Heidi Shey – ESW #304

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Alla Valente
Senior Analyst at Forrester Research

Alla is a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. She covers governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), third-party risk management (TPRM), contract lifecycle management (CLM), and supply chain risk with a special focus on risk management frameworks. In this role, Alla helps Forrester clients establish strategy, adopt best practices, define a governance framework, and select technology to manage risk, improve business resilience, and strategic value-add. Her research also includes ethics and trust in digital transformation, enterprise risk management (ERM), and protecting the organization’s brand.

Heidi Shey
Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Heidi is a principal analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. Her research primarily focuses on data security and privacy strategy, policies, and related technology controls. She guides clients in applying a Zero Trust, data-centric approach to securing data, advising them in areas like sensitive data discovery and classification, data loss prevention, secure communications, and more. Her research coverage also includes cyber insurance, customer-facing breach notification and response, consumer security, and small and medium-size business (SMB) security market trends.

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Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative
Senior Security Strategist at Axonius
VP Traceable.ai, Cyber Angel Investor and Advisor at 90 Degree Ventures

2. Understanding & Protecting Against Insider Risk – Joseph Blankenship – ESW #304

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Joseph Blankenship
Vice President, Research Director at Forrester Research

Joseph supports security and risk (S&R) professionals, helping clients develop security strategies and make informed decisions to protect against cyberattacks. As a research director for S&R, he leads the analyst team researching security leadership, the role of the CISO, infrastructure and operations, detection and response, and Forrester’s Zero Trust model of information security. His research focuses on insider threat prevention, security operations, and security management.

His 17 years of security experience include marketing leadership and product marketing roles at Solutionary, McAfee, Vigilar, and IBM (ISS), where he focused on managed security services, consulting services, email security, network security, and compliance. As a marketing leader, Joseph helped align client needs with marketing strategy, messaging, and go-to-market activities while educating users about security strategy. His background also includes extensive experience in the IT, telecommunications, and consulting industries with Nextel, IBM, Philips Electronics, and KPMG.

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Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative
Senior Security Strategist at Axonius
VP Traceable.ai, Cyber Angel Investor and Advisor at 90 Degree Ventures

3. New CEOs, SMB & Cyber Insurance Trends, Herman Miller Chairs, & SQL Slammer – ESW #304

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Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative
Senior Security Strategist at Axonius
VP Traceable.ai, Cyber Angel Investor and Advisor at 90 Degree Ventures