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Publish Date: 2026-06-18 01:20:00

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Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity

Theresa Lanowitz covers vulnerability and risk management, aimed at ensuring security teams can successfully mitigate risk while enabling the adoption of cutting-edge technology to drive growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Theresa is a well-established global influencer who speaks on trends and technologies to help today’s businesses flourish. Prior to joining Omdia, Theresa was Chief Evangelist at AT&T Cybersecurity and its spinoff, LevelBlue, where she led strategic marketing, communications, PR, thought leadership, content, and evangelism for the world’s largest pure-play MSSP.
Previously, Theresa was an industry analyst at Gartner, where she led the application quality ecosystem, championed application security, and created the AppDev conference. She then led the analyst firm voke, where she covered emerging technologies and established the lifecycle virtualization category. As a product manager at Borland, Theresa launched the Java IDE, Jbuilder. At Sun Microsystems, she led strategic marketing for Jini, a precursor to IoT. Theresa began her career as a software developer at McDonnell Douglas and held a Top Secret security clearance from the U.S. Dept. of Defense. She holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
Theresa’s areas of expertise include:AI risk management, attack surface risk management, cyber resilience, GRC/compliance, IT/OT risk management, offensive security technologies, pen testing services, third-party risk management, and threat & exposure management.
“Managing and understanding cyber-risk is a cornerstone of cyber resilience. Aligning cybersecurity with business initiatives allows an organization to unite with knowledge to drive innovation, deliver better outcomes, and gain a competitive advantage.”

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