Maker's Monthly Meetup

Bio: Dan O'Day is a Consulting Director with Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks, specializing in digital forensics and incident response (DFIR). If that sounds confusing, you can think of Dan as a cyber firefighter and digital arson investigator. When Dan isn't uncovering the truth from a sea of 1s and 0s, he can be found with his head buried in a good book, sipping on a mug of coffee, tea, or an occasional beer. In addition to spending about the last decade in consulting, Dan's background includes being a CSI digital forensic examiner in federal law enforcement (right here in NWI), an adjunct college professor at Purdue Northwest, and he is a veteran of the Indiana Army National Guard.

Talk info: Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Highlights.Unit 42 recently published its 2025 Incident Response Report, and Dan does much of the data science work underlying the statistics used in this report.…