Pete Shoard is Gartner's Chief of Research for Cybersecurity and is responsible for leading and promoting Gartner's thought leadership within the Cybersecurity domain. His direct coverage focuses on areas surrounding Security Operations Centers (SOC) including: best practices for building measuring and managing SOC teams, techniques and processes involving the identification of the attack surface, threat exposure, and the detection and response to ongoing cyber threats. As well as the acquisition and scoping of services to augment SOC teams such as Managed Detection and Response (MDR).