A Research Interview Series by Prateek Bhajanka, Former Gartner Analyst
Field Security Insights
A research interview series where the vendors shaping security take the seat across from a former Gartner analyst, and a security leader who has to buy what they sell. One topic per episode, answered in the open.
A first look at Field Security Insights
Sixty minutes on why buyers finally see both halves of the story: the problem, and the product.
A security leader sets the problem. Abhijit Chakravarty, Kotak Mahindra Bank
Three vendors answer it. BluSapphire, Spharaka, Exaforce
A former Gartner analyst asks. Prateek Bhajanka
One Technology. 4 Conversations. A lot can happen in 60 minutes.
One topic, multiple perspectives: a security leader, an industry expert, and technology vendors. Every seat is an interview, not a sales pitch.Interviews, not sales pitches60 focused minutes
The Security Leader
Prateek in conversation with a security leader: what exposure management has to answer, which vulnerabilities are genuinely exploitable, and how they decide what to fix first. No vendors in the room.
The series
Four episodes, one at a time
The Promise of AI SOC
A security leader defines the problem; three AI SOC vendors answer it, each interviewed by Prateek Bhajanka.
Watch nowEpisode 2Coming soonExposure Management
Beyond scanning for vulnerabilities: a single view of what is genuinely exploitable, and worth fixing first.
Register nowEpisode 3Coming soonAgentic AI Penetration Testing
Autonomous agents that probe, exploit, and report like a red team. Continuous offensive security, not a once-a-year test.
Get notifiedEpisode 4Coming soonEmail Security
Phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover still start in the inbox. What modern email security actually stops, and what it misses.
Get notifiedSeeing is believing.
There are three ways to understand a security product. Walk through them.
Reading takes hours.
The research
Reports, analysis, frameworks. The slow, deep way to understand a market. It has always existed, and it always will. But nobody reads at the speed the market moves.
Meet Prateek Bhajanka
Prateek is not a media personality who learned security. He is a security practitioner and former Gartner analyst who picked up a microphone, and he asks vendors the questions buyers actually have.
Gartner
Senior Principal AnalystAt Gartner, Prateek authored Magic Quadrant research on endpoint protection and covered vulnerability management and security operations. His research helped enterprises around the world decide how to evaluate and buy security technology.
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APJ Field CISO DirectorHe then moved into the field, advising boards, security leaders, and governments, translating analyst rigor into decisions made under pressure.
The industry's ear
Writer & SpeakerA published voice in Dark Reading and a regular presence at security conferences, known for making complex topics feel simple.
FieldCISO
Founder & Chief Field CISOToday he leads FieldCISO Advisory. Field Security Insights is where the questions he once asked behind closed doors are asked in the open.
When Prateek asks a vendor why buyers should trust them, the answer carries the weight of the Magic Quadrant research he authored. That credibility is what your audience feels.
Meet Ravisha Chugh
Ravisha has spent more than a decade in cybersecurity, from a security operations center to Gartner's email and data security research. She has also worked inside a vendor, so she knows how security products are evaluated and how they are sold, and she asks the questions that separate the two.
The early years
SOC & ConsultingRavisha started close to the tools, gaining hands-on experience in a security operations center and working with organizations such as IBM, IHS Markit, and McKinsey & Company.
Gartner
Senior Principal AnalystOver five years at Gartner she was lead analyst for email security, data loss prevention, and data classification, authoring Magic Quadrants and Market Guides, including the Market Guides for Email Security and Data Loss Prevention and research on business email compromise.
Fortra
Product Marketing LeadShe then moved to the vendor side, working with enterprise security and IT teams and guiding Fortra's email security product strategy and messaging. She saw firsthand how a product's story gets built.
FieldCISO
Global Field CISOToday she is Global Field CISO at FieldCISO. On Field Security Insights she brings both sides of the table to the mic: the analyst who scored the market and the insider who shaped the pitch.
Ravisha wrote the Market Guides buyers use to shortlist email and data security vendors, then helped a vendor tell its own story. When she asks what a platform really does, a polished pitch is not going to get past her.
Are you a security vendor?
The call for vendor participation is open. Take a seat in an upcoming episode and let buyers hear your answers, in the open.