Gartner Expert

Esraa ElTahawy

Sr Director Analyst

Esraa is a Senior Director Analyst on Gartner's Network & Infrastructure Cybersecurity team, focusing on cloud and application security. Her research focuses on securing cloud infrastructure, securing multi-cloud architectures, applications and API security, and helping organizations navigate the constantly evolving cloud security landscape.

Previous experience

Esraa has more than 18 years of experience in security, network & infrastructure technologies. She held multiple roles over the years involving infrastructure & security architecture, incident response, consulting, engineering management, with the most recent years being focused on presales and helping organizations understand how to best secure their onpremise/hybrid/multicloud environments.

Professional background

Cloudflare, Presales Engineer, 2 years

Orange Business Services, Network & Security Implementation Engineer, 10 years

SITA, Solutions Architect, 4 years

Areas of coverage
  • Security of Applications and Data

  • Infrastructure Security

Education

BSc Computer Engineering

MSc Cyber Security

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Securing multicloud IaaS & PaaS environments

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Components needed for SaaS security

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Application security

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How to address API security

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Setting a cloud security strategy