Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest
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Richard Stiennon

Chief Research Analyst · IT-Harvest
  • IT-Harvest
  • United States
  • Joined 2022
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Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 4,070+ vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 32 countries on six continents. He was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and Washington Post Best Seller, There Will Be Cyberwar. His research appears on Substack. Stiennon was Chief Strategy Officer for Blancco Technology Group, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and his MA in War in the Modern World from King’s College, London. His latest book Security Yearbook 2025 was published by Wiley in April, 2025.

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Read Third-Party Risk Is Moving Faster Than Annual Questionnaires Can Track
Richard Stiennon, host of the Security Strategist Podcast, discussing continuous third-party risk monitoring and cybersecurity resilience.
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Third-Party Risk Is Moving Faster Than Annual Questionnaires Can Track
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Read What Does an Autonomous SOC Look Like When Agents Run It?
In this episode of The Security Strategist podcast, host Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, speaks with Georges Bossert, Chief Technology and Product Officer and Co-Founder of Sekoia.
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What Does an Autonomous SOC Look Like When Agents Run It?
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Read Why AI Agents Are Forcing a Rethink of Endpoint Security
In this episode of The Security Strategist podcast, host Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, is joined by Brandon Dixon, Co-Founder and CTO of Ent.
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Why AI Agents Are Forcing a Rethink of Endpoint Security
29 min
Read Preemptive by Design: Is GRC the New Front Line for Security?
In this episode, host Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, is joined by Schipp to talk about the reason why governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is moving from being a yearly rush to becoming a continuous, API-driven element of security operations. They also address why AI is causing this change to happen more quickly than most GRC teams can keep up with.
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Preemptive by Design: Is GRC the New Front Line for Security?
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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

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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

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Stop chasing visibility. Start building approval.

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Something About AI Still Doesn’t Feel Right
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