Daniel C.

Head of Security Operations

Daniel C. is a security operations leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling SOC capabilities for cloud-native companies. He has led security teams through multiple stages of growth — from early-stage environments with minimal tooling to mature organizations operating 24/7 security operations with distributed teams. His experience includes designing SOC architectures, evaluating and managing MDR providers, and building internal detection and response capabilities. Daniel has been responsible for vendor selection across SIEM, EDR, and XDR platforms, as well as defining SLAs, response models, and escalation frameworks. He has also worked closely with executive leadership on budgeting, board reporting, and aligning security operations with broader business risk. He writes about the practical decisions security leaders face — including build vs buy tradeoffs, how to evaluate security vendors, and what it actually takes to run an effective security operations function at scale