Wendy Nather is Research Director of the Enterprise Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research. With over 30 years of IT experience, she has worked both in financial services and in the public sector, both in the US and in Europe. Wendy's coverage areas include IAM, application security, threat intelligence, security services, and risk management. She is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences in the US and abroad, and co-authored The Cloud Security Rules.