Dipan Mann
Founder, CEO & CTO
Dipan Mann is the founder and CEO of Cloudskope, an elite cybersecurity consulting firm that works with private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, boards, CFOs, and general counsel.
He began his career in the public sector. Before founding Cloudskope he held senior technology and customer experience leadership roles at LogicMonitor and LiveVox. He serves on the board of The Channel Company.
He writes most of what appears on this site: breach analysis, M&A cyber due diligence, and the questions boards should be asking before a deal closes rather than after. The recurring subject is the distance between assumed security and actual security, and who is holding the liability when the two turn out to be different.
Cloudskope is headquartered in Dallas and works with clients nationally. Connect on LinkedIn.
Seven Years Inside: What Volt Typhoon Is Actually Doing in the US Power Grid
China's Volt Typhoon has held access inside US critical infrastructure for roughly seven years, using no malware. The goal isn't espionage. It's pre-positioning for disruption.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
Nine Days After CISA Told America to Lock Down, Its Own Keys Were Sitting on GitHub
Days after CISA told America to lock down, a CISA contractor's public GitHub repo exposed federal cloud keys and the agency's software build credentials for six months.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
AT&T Holds the Keys to Federal Surveillance. A Whistleblower Says It Hid the Break-Ins.
A whistleblower suit alleges IBM and AT&T hid repeated Chinese intrusions into a federal cloud system and made false security assurances to keep their government contracts.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
Five Warnings in Sixty Days: The Keys to America's Infrastructure Are Not Being Held
Five infrastructure-security stories broke in sixty days, each reported alone. Read together, they say the keys to America's critical systems are not being held.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
The West Is Not Losing a Cyberwar. It's Losing an Economic War Conducted Through Cyber Means.
GCHQ's director warns of a 'narrowing window' while Russia hits Europe daily and China sits inside US telecoms. This isn't a cyberwar; it's economic coercion through digital infrastructure.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
Instructure's Own Documents Don't Add Up
A document-by-document reconstruction of the Canvas/Instructure breach, where the company's own SOC 2 renewal, incident page, and containment claims do not reconcile with what it later admitted.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory