Analyst Profile Detailed
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Christian A. Christiansen
Program Vice President, Security Products and Services
Team:
Directions Presenters
Infrastructure
Security and Business Continuity
Security Products and Services
Virtualization
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Chris Christiansen is the Program Vice President for IDC's Security Products and Services group. He conducts in-depth primary research and provides insight and analysis on a variety of evolving security markets. Mr. Christiansen delivers critical market intelligence to technology vendors, IT professionals, and the financial community. His areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: firewalls, encryption, anti-virus software, 3A (authentication, administration, and authorization) software, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment, and security management.
Prior to his current position with IDC, Mr. Christiansen was director of IDC's Asset Management service. In this position, he managed the group's research activities, analyzed end-user business issues, and developed IDC’s Cost-of-Ownership model. Mr. Christiansen also worked for IDC’s Worldwide Commercial Systems group, where he followed mid-range vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Siemens, Stratus, and Unisys.
Before joining IDC, Mr. Christiansen founded Meta Group’s Midrange Service and consulted extensively with large users on open systems, Internet access, storage management, server consolidation, vendor negotiation, database selection, maintenance audits, software asset management, and systems/network management. Prior to Meta Group, he held positions with Data General, Wang Laboratories, Yankee Group, and Creative Strategies International.
Mr. Christiansen is widely traveled and quoted. He speaks at industry conferences in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Mr. Christiansen’s background of end-user consulting, vendor research, and competitive analysis reinforces his constant emphasis on the customer value.
Popular press and trade publications frequently call on Mr. Christiansen. His comments appear in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury, Washington Post, Fortune, ComputerWorld, Network World, InfoWorld, and others. His writings and analysis are seen overseas in Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Latin America, and Australia. His bulletins are translated into Danish, Japanese, Italian, French, German, and Portuguese.
Mr. Christiansen holds a Masters of Science degree from Boston University and a Bachelors degree from Millersville University.
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Frequently Asked Questions
| How will 2001 economic downturn affect the Security Software market worldwide? |
We expect the market to continue maturing, but we are not predicting a radical downturn.
| | What are the differences between North America, Europe, and other international regions? |
We expect Asia/Pacific to grow the most quickly followed by Europe and North America.
| | What security technologies are growing and maturing? |
The Authorization market continues growing at high double digit rates, but anti-virus is clearly slowing.
| | How will security appliances affect the software market? |
Appliances represent a new licensing opportunity for established vendors in the firewall/VPN market. It offers even mature products a new market opportunity. Still, appliance market growth far outpaces traditional security software sales.
| | Will new security markets emerge around Privacy, Web Servers, Applications Servers, Wireless, and Security Management? |
For a relatively revenue-less market, the plethora of Web server security software products is quite amazing. While some products will end up as features, we see a slew of new market developing in this area.
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Software platforms that support a heterogeneous mix of biometrics, tokens, and smart cards promise to boost security, reduce cost, and improve convenience. Simultaneously, physical security and surveillance technologies are coalescing with both hardware and software authentication technologies.
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