Analyst Corner: Meet Diana Kelley of SecurityCurve

There are scores of consulting firms and analysts that address information technology and data security. To help you sort through the clutter, PKWARE® will periodically publish the “Analyst Corner” in our bi-monthly eNewsletter. We’ll profile analysts and analyst firms that we believe have valuable insight into the direction and application of data security in the enterprise.

In this Analyst Corner, meet SecurityCurve and one of its founders, Diana Kelley.

SecurityCurve gives companies market and technology insight to demystify security products and solutions, in order to make agile business moves to stay ahead of the security curve.  Headquartered in Amherst, New Hampshire, the firm serves customers worldwide by providing as-needed access to security experts who work as trusted advisors, understand clients’ needs and the underlying application architecture, and know how to bridge the gap between business and technology. Clients benefit from targeted intelligence, comprehensive research, and focused solutions to stay ahead of the competition in a rapidly changing market.

Diana Kelley founded SecurityCurve in 2003 and has extensive experience creating secure network architectures and business solutions for large corporations and delivering strategic, competitive knowledge to security software vendors. She has also held executive positions at Burton Group, CA’s eTrust Business Unit, Symantec, and KPMG’s Financial Services Consulting organization. In addition to frequently speaking at major conferences, such as RSA, WiFi Planet, BlackHat, InfoSec World, NetWorld/InterOp, and Information Security Decisions, Diana has authored numerous whitepapers and research documents, wrote the chapter on “PKI and Directories” for the book PKI: A Wiley Tech Brief, co-authored Cryptographic Libraries for Developers, and contributed articles to many leading computer and information technology trade journals.

We encourage you to read her latest whitepaper, “Addressing the Unstructured Data Protection Challenge.” Within it, Diana concludes that there are no short-cuts to protecting customer and company data. Comprehensive data-centric protection requires a phased, prioritized approach that applies processes and technologies at multiple layers. The free white paper:

• Provides an overview analysis of the many facets of data-centric security
• Explains how organizations can approach the problem strategically
• Focuses on controlling and protecting unstructured data with encryption
• Details selection criteria when choosing an enterprise solution for the unstructured data-centric security problem