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.
30 Biggest Data Breaches of All Time
Ranked by records: Yahoo, NPD, LinkedIn, Marriott, Canvas, T-Mobile, Equifax, Target, Capital One, Change Healthcare — and the regulatory fallout each produced.
Threat Intelligence
Seven Years. Five Wells Fargo Outages. Still 'Routine.'
Seven years. Five major outages. Wells Fargo still calls it routine maintenance. What the banking outage pattern reveals about regulated comms.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
275M Users Exposed in Canvas/Instructure Breach
275 million users exposed. 8,809 schools down. Instructure calls it 'scheduled maintenance.' Inside the Canvas breach and the EdTech disclosure failure.
Executive Risk & Board Advisory
Scattered Spider Plea: The Playbook Is Now Commoditized
Scattered Spider operative 'TylerB' pleaded guilty. The real threat isn't the arrest — it's that the social engineering playbook is now commoditized.
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Shadow AI Agents Are Your New Attack Surface
Employees are running unauthorized AI agents with admin access to email, files, calendars, and CRM. The shadow AI attack surface most enterprises don't measure.
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Microsoft Edge Stored Every Password in Cleartext
Microsoft Edge has been storing saved passwords in cleartext on disk. Any process with disk access can read them. What it means for enterprise password hygiene.
Microsoft 365 & Azure