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Eric Grenier
Sr Director Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Resilience
- Vision, Strategy and Operating Model
- Endpoint Security
- Managing Cyber Risk
- Managing Threats, Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Speaker Bio
Eric Grenier works in the Technical Professionals Security Technology and Infrastructure team, focusing on Endpoint Security including endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response. Eric's business and technology insights supports clients implementing EPP and EDR tooling, securing endpoints and using tools like Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and strategies such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC)that allows users to remain productive from wherever they work and be secure. Mr. Grenier has over 19 years of experience in the IT industry, most recently at Yale University where he managed the Endpoint Engineering team.
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Sessions
Tuesday, 22 September, 2026 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM BST
Outlook for Cybersecurity Threat Landscape: Prioritizing Threats With Gartner's ThreatScape
Eric Grenier,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The cybersecurity threat landscape is a moving target. Organizations cannot address all threats due to resource limitations and need proven ways to prioritize their investments. Gartner's updated ThreatScape for 2026-2027 enables organizations to optimize their prediction and prevention, enhance detections, and prepare for new and emerging threats.
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Wednesday, 23 September, 2026 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM BST
We Can’t Patch Our Way Out of Threat Exposure Debt
Eric Grenier,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Patch management is a topic of interest to Gartner clients. However, approaches for prioritizing remediation have been lagging for some time. This session offers insights and approaches that assist in updating and adapting vulnerability prioritization, and in building support and collaboration from information security partners.
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Thursday, 24 September, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Forget the Hype: 5 Key Things You Should Be Doing to Secure Your Endpoints
Eric Grenier,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In a world full of hype and distractions, organizations need to focus on fundamentals and foundational security techniques before moving on to the latest and greatest hype. In this session, attendees will learn the five key things that every organization should be doing to secure their endpoints and reduce the attack surface.
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Thursday, 24 September, 2026 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM BST
How to Prepare for the Next Flawed Vendor Update
Eric Grenier,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The 2024 CrowdStrike outage exposed a critical vulnerability: flawed vendor updates can disrupt your enterprise. Traditional IT disaster recovery is not equipped for this supply chain risk. Attend this session and learn the three essential steps security and IT teams must take to build endpoint resilience: granular ITDR planning, risk-based update management to limit the blast radius and converting undocumented knowledge into formal, repeatable recovery runbooks.
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