Nicol Dankova

Nicol Daňková is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with extensive experience in cyber defense, incident response, threat intelligence, and digital forensics. Currently serving as the Head of the Security Operations Center (SOC) at Henkel, Nicol leads a global team responsible for 24/7 monitoring and immediate response to cybersecurity incidents across the company's digital infrastructure.

Prior to her role at Henkel, Nicol was the Manager of the Cyber Defense Center at Deutsche Post DHL Group, overseeing the security operations for a global enterprise with over 500,000 employees and hundreds of thousands of endpoints.

In addition to her professional roles, Nicol is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Applied Informatics at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. Her research focuses on the IPv6 threat landscape, specifically the comparative exploitation speed and patterns of vulnerabilities in IPv4 versus IPv6 environments. Nicol's work aims to enhance security monitoring through open-source and cost-effective solutions, providing scalable cybersecurity measures for organizations with limited resources.

Nicol holds several industry certifications, including CISSP, GCIH, ITIL 4, GCFE, and GSOM, underscoring her commitment to excellence in cybersecurity.