Daniel Vickers

Daniel was instrumental in defining, communicating and implementing the strategic direction of the organisation whist optimising and bringing new services to market. Daniel operated across multiple domains within NTTSecurity and considered the following his greatest achievements:

• Lead Product Manager - MXDR (XSIAM): Drove compete end to end product development for NTT DATA's frag ship security offering utilising the Palo Alto XSIAM tech stack. From conception, marketing, financial modelling, legal framework development, integration and sales enablement.
• Organisational Transformation: A core member of the transformation team to streamline and consolidate the organisation, enabling a greater focus on advanced security services and a return to profitability.
• Three Year Product Growth Strategy: defined the strategic direction of the organisation including which services to bring to market, which to consolidate and which to revamp over a three year period. Defined and documented the financial requirements and direct implications of the growth strategy.
• MDR Launch: Identified through market analysis and communicated the need for Managed Detection & Response (MDR) services to be provisioned by NTTSecurity. Defined Go To Market (GTM) material both internally and externally and the overall pricing strategy to ensure a service competitiveness.

Daniel provided bespoke, high quality strategic insight and decision guidance for the Business and IT operations of Gartner's clients. He consulted with a range of global organisations across industry verticals on a host of different Security and Risk topics including, but not limited to:

• For a leading German Telco: Core delivery consultant developing an in-depth understanding of the ICS and SCADA market size and the identification of key vendors in the market space, providing partner & merger recommendations to a large telecommunications provider in Germany.
• For a French Aerospace & Defence Company: Led an engagement to identify, analyse and provide acquisition recommendations for a threat intelligence company within Europe
• For a national postal service: Daniel led an initiative to identify and plan the strategic direction of the security department based upon the organisations current security posture and target aspirations.
• For a Major Spanish Bank: Provided an external and independent assessment of a Spanish cyber security services and operations capability to define a strategic transformation programme.
• For a Governmental IT Department (USA): Core delivery consultant who identified an evidence led, prioritised view of the external and internal threats each government agency faced. Daniel combined the external digital footprint and internal security posture into a comparable metric, providing the basis for a remediation prioritisation exercise (inc. recommendations, roadmaps, pricing and detailed initiatives).

Providing first line technical support to a range of small and medium sized organizations across the United Kingdom.