Richard Bartley is a Research Director in Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) Secure Infrastructure group. Mr. Bartley advises clients on cloud security including native provider security controls in IaaS and PaaS, and augmented vendor security capabilities such as Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). He provides guidance on cloud security architectural approaches and designs including Secure Access Service Edge.

He also provides guidance on enterprise security architecture helping clients implement their approach, apply methods, how to use a security architecture approach to help at all layers security business needs/context through to logical design then component selection.