Andrew Jaquith

Andrew Jaquith

Andrew Jaquith is a Senior Researcher at Forrester Research.

Andrew serves Security & Risk professionals. He primarily covers data security topics including data leak prevention, encryption, key management, and server virtualization security.

Andrew has 15 years of IT and information security experience. Prior to joining Forrester, he was program manager in Yankee Group's enabling technologies enterprise group, with expertise in client security, portable digital identity, and Web application security. Before joining Yankee Group, he cofounded and served as program director at @stake, Inc., a security consulting pioneer, which Symantec Corporation acquired in 2004. Before @stake, he held project manager and business analyst positions at Cambridge Technology Partners and FedEx Corporation.

Andrew's security research has been featured in publications such as CIO, CSO, and the IEEE journal Security & Privacy. In addition, he is the codeveloper of the Apache JSPWiki open source wiki software package and the author of the 2007 Addison-Wesley Professional book, Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. It has sold more than 10,000 copies and has been praised by reviewers as "sparkling and witty" and "one of the best written security books ever."

Andrew holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale University.