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Richard Bartley
VP Analyst, Chief of Research
Richard Bartley is a Research Vice President and Chief of Research at Gartner for Technical Professionals, where he drives the development of transformative research that empowers technology leaders to innovate and excel. In this strategic role, Richard oversees a comprehensive research portfolio designed to inform Technical Domain Architects, supporting their roles to address Chief Data and Analytics Officers (CDAOs), Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Software Engineering Leaders (SWELs), Heads of Infrastructure and Operations (I&O), and Enterprise Application Leaders agendas.
Richard’s expertise lies in curating and managing advanced technical research that informs the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise technical architectures. He is responsible for a portfolio covering pivotal topics such as Cybersecurity, Agentic AI, MLOps, Data Fabric, and AI Infrastructure and Platform Engineering providing actionable insights that help organizations stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Mr. Bartley advises clients on enterprise security architecture, leveraging approaches such as SABSA and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to strengthen their practices, from setting strategic security objectives and defining logical designs to specifying technical capabilities.
Previous experience
Mr. Bartley previously worked at Accenture in their Global Security Practice and has over 25 years of experience specializing in designing and implementing security technology solutions, including private and public cloud deployments. He has an extensive background in security architecture, leading the implementation of enterprise security across large-scale solutions working in healthcare and public services, financial services and government engagements. He has a background in security technologies aligned to privacy controls and has led research into consent management and digital ethics. He has worked and lead security deployments in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. He was the security lead for the outsourced component of the Criminal Records Bureau in the U.K. and has worked in penetration and web application security testing and consultancy earlier in his career. He was a Senior Scientist in the U.K. Defence Evaluation Research Agency, where he worked defence-based information security projects.
Professional background
Accenture, Security Principal Director, 13 years
Capita Limited, Security Lead - Criminal Records Bureau, 3 years
Xinetica/Ambersail, Technical Director, 3 years
Areas of coverage
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Security Technology and Infrastructure for Technical Professionals
Education
L.L.M., Information Technology and Telecommunications Law, Strathclyde University, U.K.
B.Sc., with honors, Applied Physics, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Enterprise security architecture helping clients implement their approach, apply methods (e.g., SABSA), use a security architecture approach to help at all layers security business needs/context
Developing Reference Architectures and Libraries
Implementing security architecture capabilities in organizations
Cloud security architecture development