

Evaluate threat surfaces to identify potential vulnerabilities and prioritize mitigation efforts as a critical step in maintaining a robust organizational cybersecurity posture.
With continuously growing threat surfaces and constantly evolving attack tactics from threat actors, one of the critical challenges in staying ahead is identifying, managing, and prioritizing risks. Security risks are not limited to assets deployed within the boundary of organizational and administrative controls. Information leaked to the deep and dark web through data breaches, malware, and ransomware is far more destructive in the long run.
The most prominent challenges organizations face are identifying all the assets at play, quantifying the risk based on business criticality, and tracking the efficacy of vulnerability management programs. Keeping track of all these various risk factors becomes a herculean task for organizations.
With Persistent’s cyber security consulting services take a structured and automated approach. This allows organizations to have continuous quantitative risk assessments based on various factors like
Our outcomes provide actionable insights on prioritizing the security controls and a roadmap to enhance the vulnerability management program. It helps organizations channel their efforts toward building an effective Security Posture and protecting their crown jewels.
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Jiani Zhang is President of the Alliance and Industrial Solution Unit at Persistent Systems. Prior to this role, Jiani was the General Manager of Industrial Sector for Persistent Systems. Jiani has extensive experience in management consulting, marketing, product development and technology management. She also holds expertise in building and growing a business with P&L responsibility and leading teams in business strategy, offering & product development, go-to-market, and sales execution. Prior to Persistent, Jiani has also served as Director of Offering Management for IBM Watson IoT Platform and Head of Offering Strategy for IBM Industrial IoT where she pioneered the creation of the Industrial Analytics/AI IoT solutions.
Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving CIO Professionals
Jeffrey helps CIOs and digital leaders succeed by working with them to improve their software delivery capability and by helping them assess the relevance of emerging software technologies. As a 25-plus-year software industry veteran, he’s helped clients improve their development shop culture, apply Agile and continuous delivery best practices, and build successful developer ecosystems. Jeffrey’s been a developer; managed development teams; built award-winning commercial development tools; and, over the past decade, has helped Forrester clients navigate mobile, cloud, IoT, DevOps, and low-code technologies and tools.
Previous Work Experience
Jeffrey has been with Forrester since 2006. Prior to joining Forrester, Jeffrey worked at IBM, Rational Software, and was part of Accenture’s Advanced Systems Group.
Education
Jeffrey holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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