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A major breach captures world attention. Then there’s ransomware, the effects of Covid-19, the emergence of SASE, and a whole lot of other IT security impacts. In this episode, analyst and author Richard Stiennon explores these topics with Ken Presti in advance of Stiennon’s upcoming release, “The Security Yearbook 2021″.
A major breach captures world attention. Then there’s ransomware, the effects of Covid-19, the emergence of SASE, and a whole lot of other IT security impacts. In this episode, analyst and author Richard Stiennon explores these topics with Ken Presti in advance of Stiennon’s upcoming release, “The Security Yearbook 2021″.

Ken is a veteran IT industry analyst with layers of experience, from working as a Research Director at IDC to running his own market research and channel advisory firm. His areas of expertise encompass go-to-market and channel strategies spanning the industry sectors of networking, cloud, security, and telecom.
As AVANT’s resident digi-teller, he’s relating the insights gleaned from decades of experience and thousands of real-world IT purchasing decisions and transactions to tell the story of today’s technology and predict actionable insights for tomorrow.


Ken is a veteran IT industry analyst with layers of experience, from working as a Research Director at IDC to running his own market research and channel advisory firm. His areas of expertise encompass go-to-market and channel strategies spanning the industry sectors of networking, cloud, security, and telecom.
As AVANT’s resident digi-teller, he’s relating the insights gleaned from decades of experience and thousands of real-world IT purchasing decisions and transactions to tell the story of today’s technology and predict actionable insights for tomorrow.