Daniel Michaud-Soucy

Daniel Michaud-Soucy is a Director of Penetration Testing at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc., where he leads a team of penetration testers focusing on industrial environments.

Prior to joining Dragos, Daniel worked for Sempra Energy on RD&D tasks revolving around machine to machine threat response, data aggregation from embedded devices, advanced threat detection and secure system interfaces for ICS/SCADA.

Daniel also worked with Red Tiger Security performing cyber vulnerability assessments and penetration tests on oil & gas, electrical power, water treatment and pharmaceutical ICS/SCADA environments. In that role, Daniel interfaced directly with clients and coordinated each phase of the assessments. From a technical standpoint, Daniel was also the lead technical resource during the on-site data collection as well as the data analysis portions of the work. Daniel was also responsible for putting together the final deliverable to the customer.

Daniel co-authored and co-teaches the Dragos “Assessing, Hunting and Monitoring Industrial Control System Networks” class as of November 2017. Daniel also co-authored and co-taught the Red Tiger Security “SCADA Security Advanced Training” class between 2010 and 2015 training hundreds of professionals around the world.

FORMAL EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa
• Master of Science, Cybersecurity (Cyber-Physical Systems track), Georgia Institute of Technology (ongoing, expected graduation 2023)