Daniel Bohannon

Daniel Bohannon is a Principal Security Researcher at Permiso Security, a cloud security startup in the CDR (Cloud Detection & Response) space. Prior to that he spent two years as a Principal Security Researcher at Microsoft and over five years as a Principal Applied Security Researcher at MANDIANT (Now Part of Google Cloud) performing incident response consulting, detection development and threat hunting research. His remaining five years of professional experience involve both IT operations and security roles for a national restaurant franchise based in the United States.

Mr. Bohannon received a Master of Science in Information Security from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2013) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Georgia (2010).

He has authored multiple projects and publications related to PowerShell and cmd.exe obfuscation and detection, and has delivered numerous workshops and presentations on these topics at universities, hackerspaces and conferences around the world. His primary research areas include obfuscation, evasion and methodology-based host- and network-based detection techniques applied at scale.

Since 2019 Mr. Bohannon has been personally involved with ethical InfoSec community development efforts in the Balkans, particularly in Kosovo and Albania.

The thoughts expressed in this personal blog are his own and are not representative of his employer -- past, present or future.