Chris Steffen, Vice President of Research at Enterprise Management Associates
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Chris Steffen

Vice President of Research · Enterprise Management Associates
  • Enterprise Management Associates
  • United States
  • Joined 2022
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Chris Steffen is the Researching Director for EMA, an analyst firm that looks at how companies manage their IT infrastructure from the data center out to the user environment and into the cloud.

He is an experienced, high-performing information security expert with extensive experience in IT and security management.

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Read The New Attack Surface: Managing Risk in an AI and Open Source World
Chris Wysopal and Sohail Iqbal discuss AI-generated code, cybersecurity risks and the evolving software attack surface.
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The New Attack Surface: Managing Risk in an AI and Open Source World
34 min
Read Is Microsoft 365 Storage Becoming an AI Cost Problem?
Chris Steffen, Host and Vice President of Information Security at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), is joined by Randy De Meno, Vice President of Business Development and responsible for the Microsoft practice at CrashPlan, on The Security Strategist podcast. They claim that data strategy should come before AI strategy since enterprises are facing rising storage costs, token sprawl and ever more complex cloud environments.
AI Security
Is Microsoft 365 Storage Becoming an AI Cost Problem?
27 min
Read Black Hat 2026 Preview: The Security Trends You Can't Ignore
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Security
Black Hat 2026 Preview: The Security Trends You Can't Ignore
1 min
Read Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast - Episode 167
Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast - Episode 167
Security
Cybersecurity Awesomeness Podcast - Episode 167
1 min
The Problems We Created By Solving Problems: Why The Technologies Reshaping Our World Are Creating Challenges We Never Expected
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The Problems We Created By Solving Problems: Why The Technologies Reshaping Our World Are Creating Challenges We Never Expected

by Megan Leanda Berry
5 min

Get the new EM360Tech report exploring what happens when useful technologies become essential. See how scale, automation, connectivity, digital services and interdependence create new risks and responsibilities that organisations often only discover after those systems are already critical.

  • Why successful technology creates new dependencies
  • How automation changes responsibility and accountability
  • Why connectivity creates risks beyond the system itself
  • How digital growth creates accessibility and resilience challenges
  • What it takes to design for second-order consequences
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The Approval Economy: Why Enterprise Marketing Is Losing Control Of The Buying Journey
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The Approval Economy: Why Enterprise Marketing Is Losing Control Of The Buying Journey

by Megan Leanda Berry
6 min

Stop chasing visibility. Start building approval.

Get the new EM360Tech report on the approval economy. Learn why enterprise buying decisions increasingly form outside vendor-controlled channels, and how to build trust, credibility, and buyer confidence that survives scrutiny.

  • Why approval matters more than attention
  • How AI, analysts, reviews, and peers shape influence
  • Why intent data tells only part of the story
  • The difference between discovery content and approval content
  • How to make enterprise decisions easier to defend
     
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Something About AI Still Doesn’t Feel Right
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Something About AI Still Doesn’t Feel Right

by Megan Leanda Berry
4 min

AI is changing work. Just not the way we expected.

Get the new EM360Tech report exploring the gap between the AI story we’ve been told and what’s actually happening at work. See how AI is reshaping jobs, raising expectations, increasing pressure, and changing what people are responsible for.

  • Why productivity gains don’t always mean less work
  • How jobs are changing without simply disappearing
  • Why faster work is creating higher expectations
  • Where the AI verification burden comes from
  • What changes when AI moves from assisting to acting
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