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Daniel Riechers is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineering Manager at Collins Aerospace in the Avionics organization. His team designs, implements, assesses, tests and certifies security measures of commercial and military avionics equipment. Daniel holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and a Master’s Certificate in Software Engineering from Steven’s Institute of Technology. Daniel has worked in avionics cybersecurity for 10 years, with a significant focus on modernizing tools and processes used in testing and certification of airborne connected devices. Throughout his career, Daniel has taken brief side quests in platform software development, DevOps and consumer electronics.
Daniel’s background is highly technical, including embedded Linux software development, low-level device drivers, board bring up, lab setup, test automation, penetration testing, fuzz testing security critical and safety critical systems, networking, SELinux, trusted boot, trusted dataload, vulnerability and threat analysis, etc. Recently, his professional endeavors have ventured into people leadership and industry engagement. His background with trusted dataload has steered him towards participation in the SAE ITC SDL committee that writes the ARINC standards for software dataload of aircraft.
