Q&A: Cyber Insurance – Alla Valente, Heidi Shey – ESW #304

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Guests

Alla Valente
Senior Analyst at Forrester Research

Alla is a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. She covers governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), third-party risk management (TPRM), contract lifecycle management (CLM), and supply chain risk with a special focus on risk management frameworks. In this role, Alla helps Forrester clients establish strategy, adopt best practices, define a governance framework, and select technology to manage risk, improve business resilience, and strategic value-add. Her research also includes ethics and trust in digital transformation, enterprise risk management (ERM), and protecting the organization’s brand.

Heidi Shey
Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Heidi is a principal analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. Her research primarily focuses on data security and privacy strategy, policies, and related technology controls. She guides clients in applying a Zero Trust, data-centric approach to securing data, advising them in areas like sensitive data discovery and classification, data loss prevention, secure communications, and more. Her research coverage also includes cyber insurance, customer-facing breach notification and response, consumer security, and small and medium-size business (SMB) security market trends.

Hosts

Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative
Product Marketer and Content Strategist at OX Security
VP Traceable.ai, Cyber Angel Investor and Advisor at 90 Degree Ventures