Publications

• THE RISE OF CYBERCRIME: How Cyber Insurance May Have Inadvertently Spurred The Growth in Ransomware Attacks
• Brad LaPorte Publications.pdf
• Prior Cases

Top Cybersecurity & Information Technology Expert

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Brad A. LaPorte is a cybersecurity and Information Technology consultant and currently serving as a founder of High Tide Advisors. He has over 20+ years of experience as a consultant in the cybersecurity industry spanning various industry segments. Pior Cases: Pior cases have involved high profile companies and persons such as Bungie the Video Gaming Division of Sony, SentinelOne, BlackBerry, Red Canary, and the Miami-Dade Mayor Candidate and Influencer Alexander Otaola. Topics have included intellectual property theft, wire fraud, real estate fraud, lack of adherence to cybersecurity best practices and regulations, conflicts of interest, malicious tampering and reverse engineering of software and hardware, interference with business relationships, defamation, and matters involving impersonation with malicious intent. Career History and Expertise: Prior to forming High Tide Advisors, he served as a top Gartner Research Analyst, including but not limited to the following specialties: security information and event management (“SIEM”), security orchestration, automation, and response (“SOAR”), Threat and Exposure Management, Vulnerability Management, Pen Testing, Cloud Security, managed security service provider (“MSSP”), managed detection and response (“MDR”), endpoint protection platforms/endpoint detection and response (“EPP/EDR”), Extended Detection & Response (“XDR”), Threat Intelligence, Digital Risk Protection, Social Media Protection, Attack Surface Management, and Artificial Intelligence ("AI") Security and Technologies. Mr. LaPorte was the lead author of the Gartner Market Guide for Threat Intelligence, Market Guide for Endpoint Detection and Response, two Ransomware publications, and contributed to several Magic Quadrant publications. Mr. LaPorte created the following categories at Gartner - Attack Surface Management (2019), Digital Risk Protection (2019), Auto-Pen Testing (2019), Auto-Red Teaming (2019), and was on the team that created Extended Detection Response (2020). He conducted the groundwork research at Gartner and post-Gartner for what Gartner now calls Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). Mr. LaPorte personally covered hundreds of cybersecurity vendors and solutions at Gartner. Likewise, his consulting work has covered all segments of the cybersecurity industry and has involved research and analysis concerning buyer personas, market size segments, and geographies for all vendors in this space. In addition to the above consulting and research experience, Mr. LaPorte has approximately 20+ years of experience working as an IT and cybersecurity Leader. Mr. LaPorte pioneered many solutions in multiple roles over this time. This experience includes top leadership roles with corporations such as Dell Secureworks, IBM, Acquia, and Kasada, as well as a veteran officer of the U.S. Army. While at Dell, he launched the first-ever MDR service and Managed EDR service in 2014, as well as the first commercially available on-premise hardware appliance. Mr. LaPorte helped build the top 2 Managed Security Service Providers ("MSSPs"), as recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, to where they are today and covered hundreds of vendors and solutions at Gartner as a top research analyst. Mr. LaPorte has applied his skills in these areas to serve as a consultant on a variety of matters ranging from marketing research analysis to specific Go-To-Market strategies for information security and IT companies. He has also worked with end-users seeking to select vendors for cybersecurity solutions and services. Throughout his career, Mr. LaPorte has frequently been called upon to assess the effectiveness of go-to-market programs or to develop and deliver quantitative marketing research projects. Since the beginning of 2021, he has conducted over 200 speaking engagements and written over 200 pieces of content. This equates to approximately 3-5 pieces of content a week for his clients.