Short Bio

Sean O'Brien: Cyber Innovator.

Sean O'Brien is an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School and Director of the Cybersecurity and Computer Science Programs, as well as Assistant Professor, at Bay Path University. He is founder of Yale Privacy Lab and Deputy Director of the Free Software Foundation. Sean has more than two decades of experience in the private and public sectors in areas such as infrastructure management, Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), and blockchain security. At Ivy Cyber, “Prof Diggity” delivers digital self-defense trainings and guides the PrivacySafe secure hardware and software products. Sean’s expertise has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, AP, NBC, Popular Science, Forbes, The Financial Times, and more.