Cybersecurity Expert; Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest; Bestselling Author of "Surviving Cyberwar" & "There Will Be Cyberwar"

Birmingham, MI, USA

Richard Stiennon Biography

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” will be published by Wiley in May, 2025.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/13/2025.

Richard Stiennon Speaking Topics

  • The Three Stages of Cloud Transformation: Application, Network, Security

  • Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey

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Richard Stiennon Videos

Cybersecurity Career Intelligence

Cybersecurity Career Intelligence

Richard Stiennon | Speaker Interview | Source Boston 2019 - YouTube

Richard Stiennon | Speaker Interview | Source Boston 2019 - YouTube

Rob sits down to talk with Richard ahead of Source Boston 2019. Richard will be delivering the Day 1 Keynote on Wednesday May 1, 2019 on ...

Richard Stiennon: Where the Enterprise is Going with the Cloud ...

Richard Stiennon: Where the Enterprise is Going with the Cloud ...

All organizations are embarking on a journey to the cloud. Their users are online and taking advantage of productivity tools like SalesForce.

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Richard Stiennon is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Three Stages of Cloud Transformation: Application, Network, Security, Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey, Cyber Defense , How The Surveillance State Has Changed IT Security Forever and Why Risk Management Fails . The estimated speaking fee range to book Richard Stiennon for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Richard Stiennon generally travels from Birmingham, MI, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are John Sileo, Scott Augenbaum, Dr. Bilyana Lilly, Alissa Knight and April Falcon Doss. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Richard Stiennon for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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