Dan Bradley

About Dan Bradley

Dan Bradley is a Director of Cyber Solutions Architecture with a major government contractor and prior to that served 24 years as a federal civilian. At CISA he was the Zero Trust Initiative Technical Lead, led security operations center (SOC) assessments and supported Federal CISOs. Prior to CISA, Dan served in a variety of roles to assess, design and defend DoD's most critical systems. Over the course of his government career, he was Technical Director for testing and risk assessment, as well as security operations and security architecture and engineering. He has led hundreds of vulnerability assessments spanning Federal civilian executive branch agencies, national security systems and commercial customers. He is very familiar with risk governance processes like the NIST RMF and how their implementation can simultaneously fail to enable mission or achieve their risk management objectives. Effective risk governance is critical, which is why we must fix our broken processes. Past conference briefs include titles like: "Don't use a CDS and Avoid this Conference", "Security Operations: From Busy to Effective", "What in the Heck is Zero Trust?" and "The A in ZTA stands for Architecture, not Acquisition, You Can't Buy a Zero Trust." His briefings couple humor and with technical insights from his broad and deep cybersecurity experience. He currently holds the record for over 860 cat pictures in a 20-minute briefing. He earned a Master of Science in Network Security from Capitol Technology University and holds CISSP, ISSEP, CGRC, GCIA, GCIH, GDSA, GPEN certifications.