Brian Reed

Brian Reed is Sr. Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Proofpoint. He came to Proofpoint from Gartner, where he focused on cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats, and security awareness. Since 2015, he has published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP. Before Gartner, he spent over 15 years in various business development, product management, sales, and system engineering roles at companies including Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco), HP, McAfee, and Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM). He is well known in the information security industry and has spoken at numerous Gartner events and other industry events globally. Brian also serves as an advisory board member and holds a BA degree from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.