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Julie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Julie's 25 years of work experience is balanced between the engineering and management consulting work she did in the first half of her career and her work as an analyst for the past 12 years. The combination of technical and business expertise positions prepared her well to work with business leaders to identify new opportunities offered by mobile technology and to develop strategies to engage with consumers on mobile devices. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, healthcare, retail, and more to advise and guide the development of their mobile strategies.
Julie's research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, RCR Wireless, and The Onion and on CBS, NBC, and PBS.
Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Julie holds a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends
In this age of the empowered, tech-savvy worker, more and more employees are bringing their unsecured devices to work and using them for work activities. To prepare for this tide of devices,...

A Mature Space, IPS Is Still The Bulwark Of Network Security
An intrusion prevention system (IPS) complements traditional firewalls by inspecting the entire network packet looking for malicious traffic that is often invisible to Layer 3 firewalls. While...
Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store
Today, many employees use their personally owned smartphones and tablets for work to access a variety of mobile applications. Some companies are also proactively deploying mobile applications to...


Assessment Framework: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
Data loss prevention or protection (DLP) — depending upon your usage — is both one of the hottest topics and most difficult challenges among information security professionals today. In...

Software-As-A-Service Adoption Drives Federated Access; Provisioning Still Lags
The wait is over. According to Forrester's recent security survey, adoption of identity federation jumped from less than 5% two years ago to more than 12% in 2009. Why? Because software-as-a-service...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Threats To Unified Communication And VoIP Deployments
In many companies, the worlds of data networking and telecommunications have merged, and voice and video traffic travels with other enterprise data on the same corporate network. Often known...
An Empowered Report: Security Pros Must Work Inside And Outside Of IT To Address The Challenges
Amid the rising trend of personally owned smartphone and tablet use in the workplace, security professionals face the tough question of how to properly manage and secure these devices. Secure...
Since cyberinsurance first emerged in the late '90s, the number of available policies, the scope of those policies, and the number of insurers offering them have all significantly increased. Due to...
An Empowered Report: Getting Past Cloud Security Fear Mongering
At Forrester's Security Forum 2010 in Boston, Eran Feigenbaum, director of security, Google Apps; and Archie Reed, chief technologist for cloud security at HP, joined me on stage for a keynote panel...
Benchmarks: The S&R Practice Playbook
The global downturn has constrained security budgets for several years now, and chief information security officers (CISOs) have become accustomed to taking on more responsibilities without...
An Empowered Report: Securing And Enabling The Mobile Workforce
This year, the number of post-PC devices, such as tablets, eReaders, and Internet-capable mobile phones, will eclipse PC devices, such as desktops, laptops, and netbooks. The surge in post-PC devices...
Assessment: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Given the continued metastasizing of the threat landscape, it comes as no surprise that enterprises should possess mature incident response capabilities that are built on staff, augmented by...

Organizations Remain Tentative In Application Security Investment
Application security is an essential tool for managing risks in today's increasingly dynamic and capable threat landscape. Yet the market for application security remains small, and organizations are...
Even as social media adoption surges across the enterprise, security and risk (S&R) professionals have yet to fully understand and mitigate associated legal, compliance, and security risks. S&R...
Benchmarks: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on mobile security and operations initiatives. This report provides a benchmark of budgets,...

Insights From Forrester's Security & Risk Council
Every six months, Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields a survey to the members of its Security & Risk Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's...