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Khalid serves CIOs, leading the team responsible for delivering research and advisory services to IT leaders. He provides strategic guidance and advice to clients in the areas of organization design; governance, risk, and compliance (GRC); and emerging technologies. His research focuses on helping clients mature from an IT-centric role in their organizations to a business-embedded one. Khalid has extensive experience working with the government, healthcare, and financial services sectors.
Khalid has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as MSNBC, The Boston Globe, CIO Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Khalid is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.
Before joining Forrester, Khalid worked for a global insurance company where he provided leadership and direction for the information security program. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant and program manager at a telco, helping clients with IT strategy and architecture.
Khalid holds master's degree in networks and telecommunications management from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in business and economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
PwC And Deloitte Lead The Pack With KPMG Close Behind
Forrester evaluated leading security consulting service providers across 80 criteria and found that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Deloitte established themselves as Leaders in the security...
A Road Map For CIOs To Succeed In An Empowered World
Many pundits are writing the CIO's obituary. Your employees and the business are no longer relying on IT to provision and deliver technology. They are using technologies like social, mobile, cloud,...

The Future IT Organization And Its Implications For CIOs
The empowered era has brought about a paradigm shift for IT organizations. Employees and customers are no longer relying on IT to provision and manage technology. They are using social, mobile,...

Trying to determine the cost of a data breach is no easy task. After calculating the expenses of legal fees, call centers, lost employee productivity, regulatory fines, stock plummets, and customer...
Visa and MasterCard released the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) two years ago to ensure consistent security standards for the protection of credit card data. Since then,...
A Self-Assessment Framework To Focus And Accelerate Your Transformation
Many CIOs struggle to answer two deceptively simple questions: 1) How are we doing, and 2) what should I prioritize? These questions invite a host of complexities, raising questions about the role of...
The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model consists of four domains (leadership, strategy and planning, BT service design, and BT service delivery). This model is designed to provide a brief...

How Security Service Providers Can Help CISOs
Entering 2007, chief information security officers (CISOs) face a siloed security monitoring, measurement, and auditing environment as well as an increased responsibility for protecting the...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
IBM has one of the biggest security consulting practices in the market, with a robust partner ecosystem and a solid customer base across all global regions. The company expanded its security service...