Name: Greg Young

Vice President, Gartner

Greg Young is a Research Vice President in Gartner covering network security. He is the lead author for the Network Firewall Magic Quadrant, IPS Magic Quadrant and Infrastructure Protection Hype Cycle. He also co-authors the UTM Magic Quadrant. Mr. Young has more than 20 years of experience in IT security in product companies, and in both the private and public sectors. He spent his military career in technology security and was head of IT security for the Federal Department of Communications. He received the confederation medal from the Governor General of Canada for his work with smart card security, headed a large security consulting practice, was chief security architect for a security product company, and headed several large security consulting practices.