Daniel Bardenstein

CTO and Co-founder - Manifest

Daniel Bardenstein is the CTO and co-founder of Manifest, a venture-backed software supply chain company allowing enterprises with end-to-end SBOM management. With Manifest, organizations can easily automate the entire lifecycle of an SBOM, from generation, aggregation, enrichment, analysis, reporting, and sharing. Prior to founding Manifest, Daniel served as the Chief of Tech Strategy at CISA, where he drove technology modernization and OT/ICS strategy across the agency, and led the development of the Cybersecurity Performance Goals. At the Defense Digital Service, he led cybersecurity programs across the Department of Defense, including securing the COVID-19 vaccines and the Hack the Pentagon program. Before joining government. Daniel was also a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and is the co-President Foresight Partners, a non-profit that provides free cybersecurity support to political campaigns. He holds several security certifications as well as a patent.