Daniel dos Santos

Daniel dos Santos

VP, Research
Forescout

Daniel dos Santos is the Vice President of Research at Forescout's Vedere Labs, where he leads a team of researchers that identify new vulnerabilities and monitor active threats against managed and unmanaged devices, including IoT, OT and medical devices. He is also a member of several threat intelligence sharing associations such as the EE-ISAC and OT-ISAC. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in computer science, has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers on cyber security, 10 patents, has found or disclosed hundreds of CVEs and is a frequent speaker at security conferences.

Anatomy of hacktivist attacks: Detecting and mitigating emerging threats

Daniel dos Santos
2026-10-15 3:50 pm
2026-10-15 4:30 pm
Think Tank 1

A honeypot breach by a pro-Russian hacktivist group reveals current tactics against OT networks and the hardened controls that stop them.

Blindspots and breakthroughs: Securing sovereign intellectual property at the AI-Quantum nexus

Michael McLaughlin, Kathryn Wang & Daniel dos Santos
2026-10-15 2:20 pm
2026-10-15 3:00 pm
Melbourne Room 1

A panel maps board-level accountability for AI training data integrity and post-quantum migration as the two risks converge in the same systems.

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