Gartner Expert

Alex Tytarenko

Sr Director Analyst

Alex Tytarenko is a Senior Director Analyst at Gartner with eighteen years of extensive, multi-domain cybersecurity experience. He advises global clients on a wide range of security operations topics, with a focus on SOC, SIEM, MDR, incident response, detection engineering, and exposure management.

Alex provides expert guidance on the application of AI in cybersecurity, helping organizations leverage emerging technologies to enhance their security posture.

Previous experience

Alex’s degrees in computer science and cybersecurity. His career spans both private and public sectors, including roles within MSSPs, consulting firms, and in-house security teams. He brings ten years of hands-on SOC experience, progressing from security analyst to SOC coordinator, and later leading the establishment and development of a SOC for a major international enterprise. In addition, Alex has served as a security engineer, security advisor, and security architect for clients across various industries.

Professional background

Hitachi Systems Security, Security Architect (MSSP), 2 years

Metinvest, Chief of Information Security Methodology, 3 years

Public sector SOC, SOC Manager, 10 years

Areas of coverage
  • Security Technology and Infrastructure for Technical Professionals

  • Security Operations for Technical Professionals

Education

Master of Computer Science

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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How to design, build and develop a modern SOC

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Creating effective Cybersecurity incident response plans

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Navigating your MSSP augmentation

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Establishing a vulnerability (exposure) management program

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Practical insights on NDR implementation and operations