Summary
Daniel Deighton is a Principal and Co-Founder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and auditing email, web, network, and system security for enterprise environments. He blends certified security expertise with deep mastery of open-source technologies—Red Hat Linux, Apache, Tomcat and virtualization—to build pragmatic, auditable defenses and operational tooling. His career includes long-term security engineering and webmaster roles at the Space Telescope Science Institute where he implemented infrastructure-level protections and improved security practices across heterogeneous platforms. As the founder of Aplura, LLC and former owner of Deightime, LLC, he pairs consulting agility with enterprise-grade delivery and a track record of reducing real operational risk. Based in Parkville, Maryland, he is comfortable bridging system administration, firewall and network policy design, and application-layer security to produce measurable improvements in posture.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering, BS, Engineering at University of Michigan
Berkley High School