TheInfoPro

TheInfoPro’s Networking Practice provides continuous market data on technologies, industry opportunities and the competitive landscape in the networking marketplace. The source of the study’s intelligence is a series of one-on-one interviews with pre-screened decision-makers spanning the Global 2000 and MSEs. The Networking Study, completed every six months, produces comprehensive research in areas including macro-level spending, staffing metrics, technology roadmaps and vendor performance, spanning data network infrastructure, network management software, voice/video infrastructure, and network security.

Research Process and Schema: More than 150 one-on-one, hour-long interviews are conducted with pre-screened decision-makers from Global 2000 companies such as Citigroup, Boeing, FedEx, Pfizer and Lufthansa. TIP repeats the process in six-month ‘waves,’ affording unmatched historical data to compare against. TIP captures a wide range of peer-based data, including:

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Meet TheInfoPro’s Head of Network Research and Advisory Services

Daniel T. Kennedy, Research Director for the Network Practice

Daniel Kennedy is the Research Director for Information Security and Networking at TheInfoPro, a division of The 451 Group, where he is responsible for managing all phases of the TIP research process for those two coverage areas. He is an experienced information security professional who has written for both Forbes online and Ziff Davis, has provided commentary to numerous news outlets including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his personal blog Praetorian Prefect was recognized as one of the top five technical blogs in information security by the RSA 2010 Conference.

Prior to TheInfoPro he was a Partner in the information security consultancy Praetorian Security, LLC where he directed strategy on risk assessment and security certification. Before that he was Global Head of Information Security for D.B. Zwirn & Co. as well as Vice President of Application Security and Development Manager at Pershing LLC, a division of the Bank of New York.

Daniel holds a Master’s of Science degree in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Master’s of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University, and a Bachelors of Science in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University. He is certified as a CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council, a CISSP, and has a NASD Series 7 license.