Scholarship and Biography
Derek E. Brink, CISSP is a Vice President and Research Fellow covering topics in IT Security and IT GRC
Derek Brink helps organizations to improve their security, privacy, and compliance initiatives by researching, writing about and speaking about the people, processes and technologies that correspond most strongly with leading performance. He also helps solution providers to refine and communicate their value propositions and marketing messages to potential buyers by creating and leveraging high-quality, fact-based research content. In addition, he helps individuals to improve their critical thinking, leadership skills, and communication skills by teaching graduate courses in information security leadership at Brandeis University and Harvard University.
Prior to his research and analysis role at Aberdeen Group, Derek held positions in high-tech strategy development and execution, corporate / business development, product management, and product marketing at RSA Security, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. Derek earned an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School, and a BS in Applied Mathematics with highest honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology.