Omdia analyst, Theresa Lanowitz, covers vulnerability and risk management, aimed at ensuring security teams can successfully mitigate risk while enabling the adoption of cutting-edge technology to drive growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Theresa is a well-established global influencer who speaks on trends and technologies to help today’s businesses flourish.

Prior to joining Omdia, Theresa was Chief Evangelist at AT&T Cybersecurity and its spinoff, LevelBlue, where she led strategic marketing, communications, PR, thought leadership, content, and evangelism for the world’s largest pure-play MSSP. Previously she was an industry analyst at Gartner, where she led the application quality ecosystem, championed application security, and created the AppDev conference. She then led analyst firm voke, where she covered emerging technologies and established the lifecycle virtualization category. Theresa was a product manager at Borland, where she launched the Java IDE, JBuilder and at Sun Microsystems she led strategic marketing for Jini, a precursor to IoT. She began her career as a software developer at McDonnell Douglas and held a Top Secret security clearance from the United States Department of Defense. 

Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.