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John A. Wheeler is the founder and CEO of Wheelhouse Advisors, a leading global risk…
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Forecast: Information Security and Risk Management, Worldwide, 2018-2024, 4Q20 Update
Gartner
End-user spending for the information security and risk management market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3% from 2019 through 2024 to reach $211 billion in constant currency.
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Emerging Technology Horizon for Information Security
Gartner
Security technologies must continually evolve to match transformations across digital business landscapes. Technology and service providers must address new security risks and threats posed by new infrastructures, business-enabling technologies and evolved security programs.
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Emerging Technologies: Digital Risk Management Is the Next Big IRM Opportunity
Gartner
Organizations continuing on their digital business transformation path will need a better grasp of the strategic, operational and technology risks. Product leaders at integrated risk management technology providers can improve their product portfolio by offering digital risk management solutions.
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Scenarios for the IT Security Marketplace, 2020
Gartner
End-user spending for the information security and risk management market is estimated to grow at an 8.3% CAGR from 2019 through 2024 to $211.4 billion in constant currency. There is an increased demand for access management, endpoint point security technologies and security information and event management.
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Forecast: Information Security and Risk Management, Worldwide, 2018-2024, 3Q20 Update
Gartner
End-user spending for the information security and risk management market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3% from 2019 through 2024 to reach $211.4 billion in constant currency.
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Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact Radar: Security
Gartner
Security technologies must continually evolve to match transformations across digital business landscapes. Product leaders must address new security risks and threats posed by new infrastructures, business-enabling technologies and evolved security programs.
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Forecast: Information Security and Risk Management, Worldwide, 2018-2024, 2Q20 Update
Gartner
End-user spending for the information security and risk management market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.2% from 2019 through 2024 to reach $207.7 billion in constant currency.
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Forecast Analysis: Information Security and Risk Management, Worldwide
Gartner
Growth in the information security and risk management market will slow to 4.2% in 2020, down from a pre-COVID-19 rate of 9.1%. Short-term demand in areas such as cloud adoption, remote worker technologies and cost-saving measures will occur during 2020.
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Emerging Technology Horizon for Information Security
Gartner
Security technologies must continually evolve to match transformations across digital business landscapes. Technology and service providers must address new security risks and threats posed by new infrastructures, business-enabling technologies and evolved security programs.
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Why Leading Technology Providers Have Shifted From GRC to IRM
Gartner
Integrated risk management enables transparency via simplification, automation and integration of strategic, operational and technology risk management processes and data. Risk management product leaders should use Gartner’s definition for IRM to shift away from outdated, legacy GRC software.
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Technology Outlook for Integrated Risk Management
Gartner
Integrated risk management simplifies, automates and integrates strategic, operational and technology risk management/cybersecurity. To fulfill these objectives, product leaders should utilize this technology market outlook to differentiate their solutions.
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Emerging Technology Analysis: Digital Risk Management
Gartner
As organizations continue down the digital business transformation path, they will need a better understanding of their strategic, operational and IT risks. Product managers at IRM technology providers can improve their product portfolio by offering digital risk management solutions.
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Introduction to Creating Individual Persona Profiles for Digital Business
Gartner
As digital business expands in size and scope, individual persona profiles are ever-changing. To succeed in the new digital era, product marketers must understand the full spectrum of buyer personas beyond the traditional IT organization.
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Market Insight: Fuel Digital Business Transformation via a Digital Risk Management Solution Stack
Gartner
As organizations continue down the digital business transformation path, they will need a better understanding of their strategic, operational and IT risks. Tech CEOs at IRM providers can improve their IRM solution offerings through a digital risk management solution stack.
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Critical Capabilities for Integrated Risk Management
Gartner
To understand the full scope of risk requires a comprehensive view across all business units, and risk and compliance functions, as well as key business partners, suppliers and outsourced entities. Security and risk management leaders should use this research to evaluate IRM solutions.
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Forecast Overview: Information Security, Worldwide, 2018 Update
Gartner
The information security market will grow at a double-digit CAGR through 2022, driven by risk aversion, business requirements and fundamental business changes. To track this growth, technology product managers must align to clients’ cloud, integration and managed security service needs.
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Market Definitions and Methodology: Information Security and Risk Management Products and Services Forecast
Gartner
This document contains Gartner's updated definitions and methodology for information security. Technology and service providers should use this as a companion document for the information security forecast reports.
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Market Insight: 10 Business Outcomes Every IRM Solution Must Deliver
Gartner
Risk management technology product managers must deliver IRM solutions that meet customer demand for greater value out from their IRM investment. Gartner identifies 10 business outcomes IRM solutions must deliver to meet this growing demand.
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Market Insight: 4 Ways CROs and CISOs Are Using IRM to Succeed
Gartner
Risk management technology product marketers need to understand the critical needs of their customers to enable risk management success. Gartner identifies four ways CROs and CISOs are using IRM solutions to succeed.
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The Reality of ITSM Tools as Enterprise Service Management Tools
Gartner
ITSM vendors often position their products as a platform for workflows throughout the organization, including HR, facilities and application management. I&O leaders must assess all of their options to obtain tools that best support their business objectives in all areas of the organization.
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Market Insight: 3 Methods to Turn Your Customers' GRC Failure Into IRM Success
Gartner
Many risk management technology sales opportunities arise from failed GRC implementation projects. Technology product managers can benefit from learning three methods to deliver successful IRM implementations.
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Forecast: Information Security, Worldwide, 2016-2022, 2Q18 Update
Gartner
End-user spending for the information security market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.5% from 2017 through 2022 to reach $170 billion in constant currency. The CASB segment was the fastest growing, at a growth rate of 46% CAGR from 2017 to 2022.
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Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management
Gartner
Integrated risk management enables simplification, automation and integration of strategic, operational and IT risk management processes and data. Security and risk management leaders should use Gartner's Magic Quadrant to identify solutions that support an integrated approach to risk management.
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Hype Cycle for Risk Management, 2018
Gartner
Digital business risks and cybersecurity challenges are increasing. Security and risk management leaders must understand evolving innovations to help organizations mature by simplifying, automating and integrating strategic, operational and IT risk management processes and data.
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Top Use Cases and Capabilities for Integrated Risk Management
Gartner
Integrated risk management simplifies, automates and integrates strategic, operational and IT/cybersecurity risk management. To fulfill these objectives, IRM technology product marketers should utilize this market definition to differentiate their solutions.
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Market Insight: The Road to AI — A Journey to Smarter Security and Risk Decision Making
Gartner
Security and risk providers' excessive use of messaging around artificial intelligence and machine learning has left customers unable to differentiate hype from real value. This report helps technology product marketing leaders understand challenges and opportunities around AI in security.
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Competitive Landscape: Integrated Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
The IRM vendor landscape is dynamic, with a wide range of providers looking to exploit organizations' growing demand for IRM solutions. Technology strategic planners of IRM solution providers must evolve their competitive strategies for this future growth in IRM spending.
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Market Trends: GRC Era Is Over as Customers Adopt Integrated Risk Management
Gartner
Digital business risks and cybersecurity challenges are increasing. IRM technology strategic planners must understand the evolving market to help organizations mature their risk management by simplifying, automating and integrating strategic, operational and IT risk management processes and data.
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Hype Cycle for Risk Management, 2017
Gartner
Risk management is rapidly maturing as a discipline to harness the benefits of digital business innovation in a safe and secure way. Risk management and security leaders should use this Hype Cycle to mature their risk management programs.
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How to Engage Your Board of Directors on IRM
Gartner
Security and risk management leaders must engage constructively with boards of directors to fuel the success of their integrated risk management programs. Gartner has compiled seven activities that will maximize the level of engagement.
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Top 10 Factors for Integrated Risk Management Success
Gartner
Risk management programs mitigate the impact of uncertainty on business performance. Gartner recommends that security and risk management leaders focus on 10 success factors when adopting an integrated risk management approach to build and sustain their program.
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Definition: Integrated Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
Integrated risk management enables simplification, automation and integration of strategic, operational and IT risk management. Security and risk management leaders should utilize IRM solutions that provide the technology, process and data to fulfill these objectives.
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Risk Management Program Primer for 2017
Gartner
Digital business is bringing new and more interconnected risks to organizations. How can security and risk management leaders help propel the new digital business forward in a safe and profitable way?
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Critical Capabilities for Operational Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
Operational risk management solutions are integrated risk management solutions focused on more formal ORM practices as a key component of a broader enterprise risk management program. Security and risk management leaders should use this research to focus their ORM solution evaluation efforts.
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Magic Quadrant for Operational Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
Security and risk management leaders are seeking to integrate their risk management solutions to gain a more holistic view of risk across the enterprise. Operational risk management solutions serve as the core element of integrated risk management.
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Market Guide for Integrated Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
Organizations are seeking integrated solutions to enable their enterprisewide risk management initiatives. Security and risk management leaders looking to integrate risk management activities can use this guide to identify potential solutions.
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Transform Governance, Risk and Compliance to Integrated Risk Management
Gartner
Integrated risk management enables simplification, automation and integration of strategic, operational and IT risk management processes and data. Risk and security leaders should use Gartner's definition for IRM to structure risk management processes, functions and technology requirements.
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How to Get Your CEO to Embrace Digital Risk Management
Gartner
Common risk management practices are often a barrier to achieving strategic business outcomes. By proactively assessing risk appetite and the value of the desired business outcome, CIOs and CISOs can transform digital risk management into a competitive advantage.
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Developing Digital Risk Leaders for Digital Business Innovation
Gartner
With a more complex and intertwined global technology environment, the number of digital risks facing companies today continues to multiply. As a result, the demand for risk management leaders is increasing. CIOs must develop digital risk leaders to ensure successful digital business innovation.
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Hype Cycle for Risk Management Solutions, 2016
Gartner
Risk management solutions support the simplification, automation and integration of enterprise risks, including operational and technology risk management processes and data. Risk management and security leaders should use Gartner's Hype Cycle for Risk Management Solutions to fulfill these needs.
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2016 Strategic Roadmap for Risk Management
Gartner
Risk management has become a critical discipline to gain a significant competitive advantage in today's complex business environment. To be successful, risk management and security leaders must have a solid strategic roadmap that will improve both corporate performance and business decision making.
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Cool Vendors in Risk Management, 2016
Gartner
The dawn of a new era in risk management technologies is emerging that undoubtedly will disrupt the current GRC software marketplace. Risk management professionals are demanding new technology to support a wide range of digital business transformation initiatives.
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Ten Critical Elements for Successful Risk Management Programs
Gartner
Enterprise risk management and governance, risk and compliance are often confused as one and the same. However, each discipline delivers a unique set of elements that, when paired together, result in a truly successful risk management program.
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Critical Capabilities for Operational Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
Operational risk management solutions have matured beyond industry- and regulatory-specific requirements to offer a wide range of capabilities. They're now the foundation of integrated governance, risk and compliance strategies, and risk managers should develop use cases to assess their options.
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Risk Management Program Primer for 2016
Gartner
CEOs have a "need for speed" and many view risk management as an impediment to change. How can risk management leaders help propel the new "digital business" forward in a safe and profitable way?
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Be Wary If Buying an ITSSM Tool to Use Beyond ITSM 2.0
Gartner
I&O leaders are bombarded with vendor and industry messaging to use ITSSM tools as a platform for all business activity, much like a mini ERP. Analysis across a broad array of product categories included in "enterprise service management" hype proves that these tools cannot yet support this vision.
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Magic Quadrant for Operational Risk Management Solutions
Gartner
Chief risk officers and chief information security officers are seeking to integrate their GRC software solutions to gain a more holistic view of risk across the enterprise. Operational risk management solutions serve as a core element of integrated GRC and enterprise risk management.
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Seven Keys to Successful and Cost-Effective Risk Oversight
Gartner
Senior IT and business leaders can improve the way they manage risk through seven key actions to successful and cost-effective risk oversight. Companies that fail to improve will suffer increased liability and the misallocation of valuable resources.
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Magic Quadrant for Risk Management Consulting Services, Worldwide
Gartner
This Magic Quadrant assesses the risk management consulting capabilities of seven global consulting firms. Buyers should use it to identify consultants to help develop their risk management and compliance programs, which may lead to implementation services.
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How to Use Pace Layering to Build a GRC Application Strategy
Gartner
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy can help risk management and compliance leaders develop effective approaches to managing operational and IT risk. Use this model to deconstruct portfolios of risk management applications and develop long-term plans that fully leverage IT investments.
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ITScore for Risk Management
Gartner
A risk management program is crucial in not only managing the enterprise's exposure to risks, but also improving overall business decision making. Risk management and security leaders must periodically assess and continuously improve their risk management maturity levels.
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Market Guide for GRC Software Platforms
Gartner
Risk management professionals are using an integrated, single-vendor software platform to serve as their "system of record" in their GRC application portfolio.
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2015 Strategic Roadmap for Risk Management
Gartner
Risk management has become a critical discipline to gain a significant competitive advantage in today's complex business environment. To be successful, risk management and security leaders must have a solid strategic roadmap that will improve both corporate performance and business decision making.
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Hype Cycle for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies, 2015
Gartner
GRC technologies support the simplification, automation, and integration of enterprise, operational, and IT risk management processes and data. Risk and security professionals should use Gartner's Hype Cycle for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies to identify solutions to fulfill this need.
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Cool Vendors in Risk Management, 2015
Gartner
Digital business is creating a more complex and wider array of risks that must be well-understood by IT risk managers and well-articulated to a variety of stakeholders: boards of directors, senior executives, business and IT leaders. Three vendors provide new ways of managing this type of risk.
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Understanding When and How to Use Cyberinsurance Effectively
Gartner
Many organizations are exploring cyberinsurance as a method to transfer risk and hedge against IT-related loss. While interest continues to grow, the market for cyberinsurance is still developing, because the risks underlying the coverage are difficult to quantify from an actuarial standpoint.
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Magic Quadrant for Operational Risk Management
Gartner
As companies work to strengthen their risk management practices, operational risk management software is gaining traction as a key component of a governance, risk and compliance application portfolio and enterprise risk management program.
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The Gartner Strategic Risk Evaluation Approach for Digital Business
Gartner
Common risk management practices are often a barrier to achieving strategic business outcomes. By proactively assessing risk, considering the organization's risk appetite and the desired business outcome, organizations can transform digital risk management into a competitive advantage.
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Magic Quadrant for Global Risk Management Consulting Services
Gartner
This new Magic Quadrant assesses the risk management consulting capabilities of seven global consulting firms. Buyers should use it to identify consultants to help develop their risk management and compliance programs and to assist with system implementation services.
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Hype Cycle for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies, 2014
Gartner
As companies seek to transform into the "digital businesses" of the future, they are faced with a dynamic "cyber risk" environment that requires more advanced risk management capabilities. The resulting hype is driving greater demand for governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technologies.
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IT Planning Guidance for Legal Professionals: The Gartner Legal IT 2020 Scenario
Gartner
(NOTE: Greg Robinson is a non-analyst contributor to the publication)
The four possible futures of the Gartner Legal IT 2020 Scenario highlight the technology-led disruption of legal services. CLOs must engage CIOs to get control of legal and regulatory compliance costs, and to take advantage of advanced analytics and alternative legal services.Other authorsSee publication -
Predicts 2014: Advances in Risk Management Technology Will Improve Corporate Performance and Public Policy
Gartner
Risk management influences the decisions of business and IT leaders, yet the effective use of IT solutions lags other management disciplines. CIOs and CISOs should look to future IT advances to enable better risk management programs and significantly improved corporate performance and public policy.
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Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Legal Management
Gartner
With greater adoption over the past several years, enterprise legal management software has achieved a level of maturity that warrants consideration for corporate legal departments that are seeking to streamline their legal processes, analyze their legal risk and reduce their overall legal spend.
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Compliance Is No Longer a Primary Driver for IT Risk and Security
Gartner
Compliance is no longer a primary driver for IT risk and security. It is just one of many risk domains that CIOs should address in a mature risk management program and approach.
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Introducing the ERM/GRC Blueprint for a Successful Risk Management and Compliance Program
Gartner
Enterprise risk management and governance, risk and compliance are often confused as one and the same. However, each discipline delivers a unique set of elements that, when paired together, results in a truly successful risk management and compliance program.
Honors & Awards
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Technology & Service Provider Top 5 Author
Gartner
Top 5 author of publications within the technology & service provider organization at Gartner.
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Research & Advisory Top 100 Author
Gartner
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Risk Management Thought Leadership Award
Gartner
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100 Most Influential People in Finance
Treasury & Risk Management Magazine
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Top 40 Finance Executives under 40
Treasury & Risk Management Magazine
Organizations
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Carnegie Mellon University
Guest Lecturer
-Participated as guest lecturer as part of lecture series for Chief Risk Officer Executive Management Program in the Heinz College of Information & Business Management.
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