Daniel Clemens

Daniel Clemens is the founder and CEO of both ShadowDragon and Packet Ninjas, a niche cyber security consulting and services company.

With extensive experience in defensive and offensive security, Daniel has been a quiet trailblazer in digital intel gathering long before cyber intelligence became a discipline. More than a decade ago he was inventing and applying his own intelligence tools in support of companies and governments around the world facing urgent threats. Using this deep understanding of web technologies and the behaviors of cybercriminals, he has enhanced, updated and packaged these tools under ShadowDragon.

Daniel is a member of the Odonata Holdings, Inc.

Stopping an Active Shooter with OSINT: How Publicly Available Information Becomes Actionable Intelligence

By Daniel Clemens / December 6, 2023

[First printed in the December 2023 edition of Security Technology] 

ShadowDragon Commentary: How to Scale Investigations Using Open-Source Intelligence

By Daniel Clemens / October 13, 2023

Recently, ShadowDragon CEO, dclemens, contributed an article to Security Management Magazine for their October 2023 organized crime issue. In the piece, he offers firsthand insights into how investigators can improve […]

Reflections on RSA Conference 2023: OSINT and Beyond

By Daniel Clemens / June 5, 2023

Now a few weeks removed and recovered from the chaos of the RSA Conference, I wanted to share my thoughts on the 2023 event (the bad and the good). As […]

ShadowDragon Commentary: OSINT vs Classified Secrets

By Daniel Clemens / April 11, 2023

In a recent opinion piece for The Cipher Brief, Gregory Sims, former CIA Clandestine Service for over thirty years, including multiple field tours as Chief and Deputy Chief of CIA […]

The Impact of Bad Energy Policy on Cybercrime

By Daniel Clemens / March 29, 2023

dclemens, Founder & CEO, ShadowDragon  Is climate change the cause of higher energy prices? Likely not. That being said, there is common confusion surrounding energy policy and basic economics. The […]

Diving Deeper: What Past Attackers Tell Us About Bryan Kohberger

By Daniel Clemens / January 11, 2023

After six weeks of investigation, on Dec. 30, 2022 authorities arrested Bryan Kohberger as the key suspect in the quadruple murders of four University of Idaho students. This case (which […]

You want to build a Platform? ..What Platform Should I use?

By Daniel Clemens / August 9, 2020

The echo’s of investors had started the buzz of the need for new investigative / intelligence platforms a great deal more than there had been in the past few years. […]

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Additional Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage | APT33

By Daniel Clemens / April 24, 2020

Earlier this week FireEye/Mandiant had released a blog entitled “Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage”detailing the targets within the Aerospace and Energy sectors being targeted. To compliment their post we wanted […]

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What Will OSINT/PAI and Collection at Scale Look like for 2020?

By Daniel Clemens / January 11, 2020

2020 will be eventful and likely one of the most historical years containing change, balancing the tension between change, conflict, and hopefully peace in a long time. When reflecting on […]

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Iran Hype – Past and Present Recollections

By Daniel Clemens / January 6, 2020

On September 11th, 2012, US embassies had been hit with attacks known as the “Benghazi Attacks.” In online correlation, attacks that had been referenced as “Operation Ababil” had begun as […]

Iranian Watering Holes. Target Centric Analysis IOCs

By Daniel Clemens / December 1, 2019

Additional information is always needed on initial indicators for a SOC analyst or incident handler. In this case, initial indicators point to [ clear. co. ir and 79.127.125.179 ] engaging […]

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Job Post: Training and Curriculum Specialist

By Daniel Clemens / September 3, 2019

ShadowDragon is a privately-held software development company seeking a full-time training and curriculum specialist. ShadowDragon provides cyber security software tools to commercial entities, government and law enforcement agencies around the […]

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