Senior Director, Analyst - Network Detection and Response and Infrastructure Protection
Company: Gartner
Location: Irving
Posted on: May 17, 2024
Job Description:
About the role:Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who
create must-have research, market predictions and best practices
for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director
serves as a leader within Gartner's Research and Advisory sector,
establishing oneself as a credible voice within their designated
market at local, regional and global levels. Utilizing exceptional
research and analytical skills, a Senior Director plays a
significant role in producing pragmatic and provocative research
which Gartner clients consume and apply to propel their business
toward key objectives. They are a trusted source of advice for
clients, reinforcing Gartner's value every day by engaging them via
in-person meetings, virtual meetings, sales support visits and
Gartner conferences to discuss complex client challenges and offer
appropriate recommendations. What you will do:
- Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged
"must-have research" content
- Develop new research and ideas through thought leadership and
offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and
requests that accelerate the client's ability to act
- Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a
client's barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive
strategy forward
- Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing research
positions across a team of analysts
- Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that
can evolve the course of a research agenda
- Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to
provide clients and vendors with actionable insights
- Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to
their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face
interactions
- Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off
stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association
conferences, and client briefings
- Support Research and Sales: Provide sales support serving as
voice of the market to help research teams create content and to
drive engagement with clients to make progress against their
critical priorities to grow their business
- Provide high quality and timely research content peer
review
- Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner
research, methodology and strategy
- Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research
discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the research
community
- Identify research process improvements or develop new processes
that help the team and Research & Advisory provide excellent
service delivery
- Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team
members
- Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage
regularly and often with Gartner research and interactions.
- Participate in branded and non-branded research focused on
infrastructure protection needs and network detection and response,
in particular.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts across Gartner to form
opinion on how AI/ML capabilities inform evolution of automated
network anomaly detection.
- Collaborate with AI/ML and infrastructure protection subject
matter experts across Gartner to author research on relevant
advances in infrastructure protection.
- Provide input to key initiative leaders on compelling client
questions for CISO, CIO, IT sourcing and procurement, and
infrastructure and operations leaders and their organization as
observed in Gartner interactions.What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree
preferred
- 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience
- Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish
credibility with executives and additional stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight
deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
- Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability
- Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and
presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond
effectively to questions
- Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively
apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending
conclusions to client challenges
- Strong communicator who is able to explain complex concepts
concisely and simply
- Subject matter expert comfortable presenting at large and
small-scale speaking engagements
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within
subject area as well as the interplay in that market
- Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically
motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of
others, in a multicultural global team
- Learning agile and adept with navigating highly matrixed
environments
- Ability to represent Gartner's research methodology and
strategies effectively at all levels
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where
applicable)
- Background in network security or security incident response or
security operations
- Understanding of evolving detection and response techniques
across hybrid environments
- Broad knowledge of how security organizations approach
- Threat hunting techniques,
- Threat intelligence investments, threat detection practices,
and
- Malware detection
- Working knowledge of network packet traffic flows, modeling
network patterns, and use of signature and non-signature-based
detection approaches.
- Working knowledge of threat investigation must-haves for
structured incident response
- Familiarity with development/integration of endpoint
sensors.
- Preliminary experience or knowledge of analyzing
software/platform/infrastructure-as-a-service events through native
capabilities or APIs and exposure to SIEM capabilities.
- Pulse on AI/ML advances impacting detection and response and
infrastructure protection efforts.
- Working knowledge in at least three cybersecurity domains:
- Next generation firewalls
- Network access control and microsegmentation
- Endpoint protection and response
- Security service edge components: VPNs, secure web gateways,
and cloud access security brokers#LI-SK1#LI-RemoteWho are we?At
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exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have
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community and causes that matter to you.Gartner believes in fair
and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range
for this role is 150,000 USD - 190,000 USD. Please note that actual
salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range,
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