Dan Gunter Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Bootstrapped a cybersecurity company from the ground up, focused on helping businesses speed up the detection of sophisticated cybersecurity threats that threaten their critical business operations.- Responsible for company culture across all business units- Initially developed and currently responsible for the execution of the go-to-market plan for product and services- Responsible for the development and management of company processes and performed key hires in the area of finance, HR, marketing, and operations- Manage and coordinate with legal on contracts with vendors and customers- Navigated benefit establishment and currently manage health, 401(k), and other employee benefits- Served as the first cybersecurity analyst and transitioned to team mentorship and delegation roles as business continues to grow

Hanover, Maryland, Us

- Built Dragos' Research and Development program from scratch- Took ownership of and scaled threat intelligence focused detection engineering program for the Dragos platform- Developed rapid prototyping and data analysis strategy to capitalize on near term business opportunities resulting in millions of dollars of product and service sales- Led control system research group resulting in multiple private disclosures of critical vulnerabilities weeks after the creation of the program- Worked both individually and led teams to reverse engineer control systems and operational data from industrial environments for detection engineering purposes- Mentored Dragos Threat Operations Center analysts on remote capture and analysis challenges leading in multiple successful emergency incident response and threat hunting efforts- Working knowledge of network analysis (Zeek, Wireshark, Network Miner, Snort), static analysis (IDA Pro+Hexrays, Ghidra, Yara, .Net Reflector), and dynamic analysis (Cuckoo sandbox, process hacker, sysinternals) as well as open source scaled analysis tools (ELK, Security Onion)

Hanover, Maryland, Us

- Serves as both a software engineer and analyst. Designs and implements tools in a variety of programming languages (Python, C, Java, Lua) to scale internal analytic capability of Dragos' Threat Operations Center leveraging both open-source (Bro, Snort, ELK, Security Onion) and internal tools.- Conducts threat hunts, security assessments and incident response across the energy, oil & gas, and manufacturing sectors.- Analyzes advanced malware and also leverages information from threat intelligence sources to create behavioral analytics that security teams can easily integrate into field operations.- Assists clients with developing strategy and approach for securing ICS networks both for new facilities and acquired facilities.- Co-creator of Dragos' Industrial Threat Hunting program. Developed Dragos' initial scaled threat hunting capability using Jupyter Notebooks and other open and closed source tools. Led efforts to scale the breadth and depth of Dragos' analysis capabilities further across host and network data.- Drove creation of the consequence-driven threat hunting strategy that factors both threat intelligence and physical process consequence into threat hunting operations.- Writes, speaks and, teaches threat hunting and incident response strategy and technical analysis content both in public and private events.- Led Dragos threat analysis of CRASHOVERRIDE malware used in 2016 Ukraine Energy Sector attacks.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

[June 2015 – June 2017]Offensive Cyber Planner, United States Air Force[May 2012 – June 2015]Computer Network Operations Development Program, Department of Defense[January 2010 – May 2012]Operations Center Shift Lead, Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team

Waco, Texas, Us

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Graduate Certificate, Incident Response

Master’S Degree, Computer Science