John started his journey in computer security more than 20 years ago when he served in the U.S. Army Reserves in the Western Cyber Protection Center (WCPC), a cyber defense unit. John has experience working with nCircle, Cloud Passage and Kenna Security, where he focused on cloud security and risk, vulnerability and configuration management. John is now helping Orca Security to evolve cloud security with game-changing paradigms such as the use of agentless and risk prioritization.

Dan is a consultant, IT industry analyst and thought leader focused on how emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning and advanced analytics are impacting businesses. Dan is particularly interested in how businesses use these emerging technologies to alter their approaches to information security, governance, risk and ethics. Dan provides advisory services directly to leadership at technology vendors that design and deliver security solutions, assisting them in aligning their solutions with enterprise requirements. Dan is viewed as an expert in understanding security solutions and mapping them to the complex needs of business across industries. Prior to co-founding Techstrong Research, Dan was Managing Director at Hurwitz & Associates, an analyst and consulting firm. At Hurwitz & Associates Dan led research on a variety of studies and reports in the areas of data and AI, modern software development, security and multicloud computing.

Dan earned his B.A. in Political Science from Union College in New York and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, where he focused on emerging corporate strategies and intellectual property. As an attorney, Dan represented startups, cloud computing ventures and early stage startups as they sought funding. Dan is a co-author of “Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human-Machine Collaboration” (CRC Press, 2020), “Cloud for Dummies” (John Wiley & Sons 2020), and “Hybrid Cloud for Dummies” (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).