Neil MacDonald

Neil MacDonald is a Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Gartner Fellow Emeritus in Gartner Research, based in Stamford, Connecticut. MacDonald is a member of Gartner’s information security and privacy research team, focusing on securing next-generation virtualized and cloud-based computing environments from advanced attacks. Specific research areas include endpoint protection, virtualization security, application security, protection of cloud-based workloads and protection from advanced targeted attacks, using context-aware security and Big Data analytics approaches. He identified the market for cloud access security brokers in his 2012 report, “The Growing Importance of Cloud Access Security Brokers,” co-authored with Peter Firstbrook.