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IANS provides independent research and advisory services for information security, based in Boston and founded in 2001. It serves CISOs with experience-based, vendor-agnostic guidance mainly through annual subscription decision-support, along with consulting, assessments, and events. Its flagship End-User Decision Support connects clients with experts via an Ask-an-Expert service, and it offers deployment-focused reports, templates, tools, and professional development; in 2024 it launched IANS Privacy Operations. A differentiator is a faculty of 150+ practitioners delivering practical, real-world guidance; its clients include global brands and U.S. federal agencies, and Apax Digital Funds invested in 2024 to help scale product development and market reach. The goal is to help security leaders make informed decisions, manage risk, and improve privacy compliance while fostering a peer community."
About IANS
Industries
Data & Analytics
Consulting
Government & Public Sector
Cybersecurity
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- CISO ownership of privacy rose to 47%, driving demand for IANS Privacy Operations's operational, non-legal compliance guidance
- Security compensation peaks in tech and financial services, supporting IANS’s peer-based insights for CISO team scaling and design
- Over 800 CISOs contributed to IANS’s 2024 benchmark report, enabling high-value peer insights for organizational planning and compensation
What critics are saying
- IANS will lose federal contracts to Mandiant and Dragos as TSA and FCC shift to managed threat detection lacking IANS’s real-time response
- IANS Privacy Operations will fail as 47% of CISOs lack legal expertise and migrate to OneTrust and Protoya’s operational frameworks in Q1 2025
- IANS will face revenue collapse if Apax Digital Forces a vendor-partnered pivot, destroying its agnostic credibility and churning 800+ CISO clients
What makes IANS unique
- IANS uses 170+ practitioner-verified Faculty for vendor-agnostic, real-world guidance no AI or analyst firm replicates
- IANS focuses exclusively on cybersecurity with a proprietary intelligence platform mining anonymized CISO community and Faculty conversations
- IANS offers Ask-an-Expert 24/7 access to benchmarks and implementation guidance grounded in peer actions, not outdated reports
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↓ -10%Boston, MA - October 17, 2024 - IANS Research, a Boston-based cybersecurity research and advisory firm, today announced the appointment of Kurt Reisenberg to Chief Operating Officer.
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About IANS
Industries
Data & Analytics
Consulting
Government & Public Sector
Cybersecurity
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
2001
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