Steve is a Senior Analyst within The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice, providing in-depth, timely perspectives on the state of enterprise security and emerging trends. Steve's primary area of coverage is on identity and access management, with his research currently focused on understanding the impact on identity from shifts in the IT consumption model.

Steve rejoined The 451 Group after serving as director of product marketing at Whale Communications, a secure remote-access vendor acquired by Microsoft in 2006. At Whale, he was responsible for implementing the product marketing strategy for a corporate repositioning, and he worked on post-acquisition strategy. Before joining The 451 Group at its inception in April 2000 and serving as both director of M&A and network and security research, Steve covered technology and economic trends for European financial newswire AFX News as the San Francisco Bureau Chief.

Steve has a degree in Linguistics and Zulu from the University of Cape Town, where he graduated with honors, and an MA in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.