Daniel Bardenstein is just trying to help make the world be even just a little more secure. As a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute, he is focusing on policies to improve cybersecurity across the energy sector and incentivize IoT manufacturers to natively secure their devices. At Foresight Partners, he volunteers infosec and disinformation training and support to political campaigns. Daniel spent time working in government, where his work included leading cybersecurity for the COVID-19 vaccines, leading the Hack the Pentagon program, and researching solutions in OT/ICS/SCADA security. Before government, he worked in the private sector, where he built tools to make security teams’ lives easier.

Daniel has a Bachelors in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and also holds certifications as a GCFA (Windows Memory Forensics) and, begrudgingly, a CISSP, as well as a patent on network anomaly detection. When not learning about some new security issue, Daniel tries to unwind by playing drums, hiking with his dog (Bowie), and baking banana bread.