Max Lesser

Max Lesser

Research Analyst and Associate Editor

Max currently works with the DISARM Foundation, an organization that maps attacker and defender TTPs to facilitate analysis and response to misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. As a participant in the Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Digital Sherlocks program, he has developed OSINT skills relevant for countering influence operations. 

Max has spearheaded research that won best paper at the International Forum on Digital and Democracy and has been shared by the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group. His writing on cognitive security has also been published by Infosecurity Magazine.