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Jeff Pollard

Principal analyst serving security & risk professionals

Jeff Pollard primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for Security & Risk Professionals. His�research guides client initiatives related to managed security services, security outsourcing, and security economics. He helps senior technology managers with their plans to … (Read Full Bio)leverage a composite set of security services to drive business outcomes. His research focuses on integrating security services into operational workflows, incident response processes, threat intelligence applications, and business requirements.Previous Work ExperiencePrior to joining Forrester, Jeff served as a global architect at Verizon, Dell SecureWorks, and Mandiant, working with the world's largest organizations in financial services, telecommunications, media, and defense. In those roles he helped clients fuse managed security and professional services engagements in security monitoring, security management, red teams, penetration testing, OSINT, forensics, and application security.EducationJeff holds a B.S. in IT management from Western Governors University.