Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Remote

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Delhi, India

• Increase influence in the Analyst Community with effective AR strategies,
• Improved Positioning in highly influential reports like Magic Quadrant, Wave, Radar, etc.
• Shorten deal lifecycle and increase the win rate with Competitive Intelligence and Enablement,
• Enabling Sales with the most effective messaging and positioning with Sales Enablement,
• Elevate brand positioning and influence with Thought Leadership
• CISO Advisory to help the Security buyers adopt the most effective security strategy
• Website: FieldCISO.com
• Security Markets Covered: EDR/XDR, SIEM, AISecOps, Security Telemetry Pipeline, Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, Breach and Attack Simulation, Red Teaming, CTEM Cyber Threat and Exposure Management, EASM, Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ), Cyber Risk Rating Services,

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

• In GLG, I bring over 15 years of Cybersecurity Experience across various roles such as Gartner Analyst, MQ Author, Product Leadership and Management, Field CISO, Evangelism, Security Engineering, Product Marketing, Analyst Relationship, Competitive Intelligence, Strategy, etc.
• My expertise spans across the domains of EDR/XDR, SIEM, SOC, Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ), Cyber Threat and Exposure Management, DFIR, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Cloud Security (CNAPP), etc.

Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 · 11 mos · Gurugram

• Educating and inspiring a class of 50 engineering students in cybersecurity at The NorthCap University.
• Developing engaging curriculum to prepare students for future cybersecurity leadership roles.
• Mentoring students to excel in the cybersecurity domain and become industry professionals.

Sep 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

• Teaming and liaisoning with Security leaders, CISOs across the industry to enable and help in their security roadmap, charter and provide advisory and consultancy to solve their current challenges and pain points.

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Responsible for:
• Product Marketing
• Product Management
• Go To Market
• Analyst Relations

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Remote

Oct 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Covering Endpoint Security and Vulnerability Management.
• Author high-quality, fact-based research notes such as Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Market Guide,etc., targeted to CIO, CISO and other security leaders
• Advise security leaders in client organizations on their various security programs, initiatives and investments
• Develop market knowledge and insights, & advise the clients on their Go-To-Market Message and Strategies
• Establish industry best practices for security programs
• Prepare and present in various Gartner conferences as well as clients' conferences
• Vendors covered:
• EDR/XDR: CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, Palo ALto Networks, Cybereason, Symantec, Sophos, Trend Micro, Cynet, Cylance, Deep Instinct, Morphisec and many more
• Vulnerabiity Management vendors: Tenable, Quals, Rapid7, Balbix, Vulcan Cyber, Kenna Security, Cymulate, XM Cyber, BreachLock, Safe Breach, Pcysys, Pentera, Picus Security, Hive Pro and many more
• DFIR providers: Sygnia, Mitiga, SecureWorks, Thomas Murray, CrowdStrike, Mandiant, etc
• SIEM providers: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, Google Security Operations. IBM Qradar, Palo Alto XSIAM, CrowdStrike next Gen SIEM , etc

Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 · 3 mos

• Covering Endpoint Security and Vulnerability Management.
• Author high-quality, fact-based research notes such as Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Market Guide,etc., targeted to CIO, CISO and other security leaders
• Advise security leaders in client organizations on their various security programs, initiatives and investments
• Develop market knowledge and insights, & advise the clients on their Go-To-Market Message and Strategies
• Establish industry best practices for security programs
• Prepare and present in various Gartner conferences as well as clients' conferences

Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 · 11 mos

Oct 2016 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Prateek Bhajanka is a Research Analyst for the IT Leaders (ITL) constituency, focusing on Security and Risk Management for Gartner Research. Mr. Bhajanka's areas of research include vulnerability management, secure configuration management, infrastructure protection, endpoint protection platforms, malware prevention etc. His key tasks encompass creating high-quality, actionable and consumable written research and advice clients on various security problems they face.
• Also, helps organizations save money on new contracts and renewals on vulnerability management and endpoint protection platforms.

Aug 2016 – Oct 2016 · 2 mos

Jan 2020 – Oct 2020 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Responsible for product definition, road map, marketing and strategy for the VMDR product offering
• Positioning and messaging for product promotion
• Sales enablement of the product
• Deliver webinars and author articles
• Product and security evangelism

Apr 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• A cybersecurity professional in Cyber Risk Services. Currently, working on Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing of client's IT infrastructure and Applications, helping clients identify technology risks and mitigating them.
• Configuration reviews of Operating system, database and network devices in order to find the risks associated with the current configuration of devices they operate in.
• Process audits for improvement of overall ISMS.
• Involved in Performance testing of clients' applications to assess their load bearing capacity and their stress capacity during high surge period.
• Tools:
• Kali Linux
• Tenable,Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7 Burp suite, Acunetix, Metasploit, SSLScan, Nmap
• Nipper
• Apache Jmeter, HP Loadrunner

Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• • My role included end to end business development constituting conceptualization of the new service, marketing of the products/service including mass mailers, digital marketing, cold calling and visiting clients after lead generation. Thereafter, gathering requirements and deploying turnkey customized solution as per the client requirements.

Mar 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Experience of working in the field of IT Security and Technology & Workforce Enablement, Forecasting Management System and Application Interfaces for a Global Hospitality giant.
• Worked on the solutions to the technical issues faced with Interfaces by front end users of the Property Management System,
• Worked closely with the Product Owner of Forecasting Management System in providing back end support and performing day to day server/application maintenance and report,
• Acted as the lead of IT Security and Technology Workforce Enablement activities between client and the company, for smoother operations,
• Taken initiatives to make the VLAN of the project centralized by implementing new techniques and process improvement and optimization.
• Acted as an interface between client, on shore and off shore team.
• Worked directly with the Senior Manager of the project to reduce the costs incurred by redundant technologies and process.
• Leveraging the procured technology and servers to the best of use in the project.
• Worked on contingency planning.
• Helped ramp up the new professionals in the project.