Media Engagement
Updated: July 2026
Bio
Daniel Miessler is the founder of Unsupervised Learning, a company built on one idea: use AI to move people and organizations from their current state to their ideal state. He spent 25+ years in cybersecurity—at Apple, Robinhood, HP, IOActive, and hundreds of consulting clients—before going full-time on that problem.
Everything he ships is a version of the same loop. Human 3.0 describes the ideal state for people: defining yourself by what you create instead of the job you hold. LifeOS is the open-source AI platform that captures what you actually want and drives your AI toward it. And Telos is the framework for writing down your current state, your ideal state, and the path between them.
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/danielmiessler
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Reach
Unsupervised Learning is also a consulting and media brand with the following reach as of July 2026.
- The Unsupervised Learning YouTube channel has 673,000 subscribers.
- The Unsupervised Learning Newsletter has 96,000+ subscribers.
- danielmiessler.com averages 194,000 monthly views.
- Daniel has 155,000 followers on X (April 2026).
- Daniel has 33,000 followers on LinkedIn (April 2026).
- The Unsupervised Learning Podcast began in 2015 and averages around 62,000 downloads per 60-day window (April 2026).
The podcast, newsletter, and YouTube channel are three parts of the same show.
Open Source
Daniel's projects are some of the most-used tools in security and AI, with counts as of July 2026.
- SecLists — 72,000+ GitHub stars; the pentester's list of lists, included in Kali Linux since 2018.
- Fabric — 43,000+ GitHub stars; crowd-sourced AI prompts for real work and personal use cases.
- LifeOS — 16,000+ GitHub stars; the AI platform for moving from current state to ideal state.
Visibility
Daniel speaks frequently on AI, cybersecurity, and the future of work. Selected engagements:
- BlackHat MEA — December 2025, Saudi Arabia
- HouSecCon — November 2025, Houston, TX
- Global AppSec Conference — September 2025, Washington, D.C.
- Swiss Cyber Storm — Keynote, "The AI Revolution" — October 2024
- Black Hat CISO Summit — 2023, plus multiple prior appearances
- RSA Conference — Multiple presentations (including 2015, 2016, 2017), San Francisco
- Black Hat USA — Multiple presentations, including Black Hat 2015 (Arsenal), Las Vegas
- DEFCON — Red Team Village, plus DEFCON 23 (IoT Village, 2015), Las Vegas
- United Nations — Cybersecurity, New York
- Stanford University — Guest Lecture
- HP Protect — Keynote
- Microsoft BlueHat — Invited Speaker
- OWASP AppSec USA
- AppSec California (OWASP) — 2016, 2017, 2018
- Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC) — 2018 Keynote
For the current list of topics and past engagements, see the Unsupervised Learning Speaking page.
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