20 Best Workplaces of the Year 2021
Business Fortune

In a world where the cybersecurity landscape varies daily, innovation is the critical aspect. Nisos, the most influential Managed Intelligence solution, has developed a method of remaining ahead in the game. Integrated threat, cyber and external intelligence capabilities give clients real-time, actionable research addressing immediate and long-term risks. It also has been able to innovate and adapt to the ever-changing nature of threats, such that it has now solidified its entry as one of the most dynamic workplaces of the year.
Innovation Adopted through Employee Engagement
At Nisos, innovation is very wide in embracing activities outside engineering. Jennifer DeTrani observes that everyone contributes to change, thus making it broad. As a motivation, the organization has established means of award incentives to stimulate patents' invention from various ideas through finance. Nisos retains an open door from the sectors since not only one part of vision is important to ensure no myopic thinking by also recruiting back pouring inputs into diversity. Besides, this dynamic environment really needs collaborative learning, so the designed flexible, cross-functional teams are an ideal fit in helping to foster such teamwork, where every team member can contribute to the shaping of future events.
Promoting the Workplace Culture of Positive Flexibility
Nisos considers that employee well-being is at the core of its function. This is because, according to the firm, a healthy work culture could be influenced by the potency of leadership in the professions, as well as the ability to allow personal accommodation. Nisos encourages the employees to make an appropriate find the balance to flourish-whether that means making or attending a family event at midday for extra classes or even taking time off for personal care.
“We embrace the diversity within our team and enjoy collaborating with one another,” says DeTrani. Kindness, sportsmanship, and teamwork are the primary values Nisos instills in an employee; a value-driven culture promotes an atmosphere where you feel valued and supported as an employee. The same culture has made it possible for mutual respect to co-exist with respect for performance in a person for support and team spirit.
Resilience and adaptability in the face of pandemics
Like most organizations, Nisos had to change course quite radically with the onset of the novel pandemic COVID-19. The whole team worked from home and brought in new leadership at that time-all of this without a hitch in support to both employees and clients. The effort of leadership found its frame in encouraging employees to lend morale-further by taking a leap in resources such as an employee assistance program and introducing creative compensation avenues like lifestyle and self-care bonuses.
Not merely flexing for employees, Nisos found novel ways to support its clients by continuing to avail actionable intelligence notwithstanding challenges. Keeping an organization nimble while nurturing flow of communications would ensure that Nisos and its population came through the pandemic with their engagements intact.
Future vision: Growth and global expansion
With increasing demands for its innovative services, the company is actively seeking out its top talents to grow its teams in the U.S. and Northern Ireland. Recently, Nisos established the research and development hub located in Northern Ireland to tap the talent pool of this region that will prepare the company for further success.
Adverse as it is, the pandemic does not stop Nisos in its commitment to work-life balance, innovative services, and resilience, and all promising that the company will be an industry leader and employer of choice for many years to come.
About the Leader
Jennifer DeTrani, Corporate Secretary & Head of Culture of Nisos, is on the executive leadership team of SunLaw, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of in-house leaders, and she is a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at the George Mason University Law School. In the software, secure communications, IT, and cybersecurity sectors, Jennifer has a track record of achieving goal-driven outcomes. She concentrates on compliance, innovation, outreach, and education within the legal community, with an emphasis on technology, security, and privacy, in addition to creating internal teams. She worked as a federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, managed a solo legal practice, practiced corporate law at BigLaw, and co-founded the secure messaging startup Wickr before joining Nisos.