Carissa Véliz
Associate Professor, Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI | Bestselling Author of Privacy Is Power & Prophecy | Herbert A. Simon Award Winner | Privacy & AI Ethics Philosopher
Danni Brooke
One of British Policing's Most Deployed Female Undercover Officers | Channel 4 'Hunted' Investigator & Co-Founder of The OSINT Group | Bestselling Author & Cyber Expert
Danni Brooke was one of the most deployed female undercover officers in British policing, spending a decade infiltrating organized crime for the Met. Today she is a star investigator on Channel 4's Hunted, co-founder of the cyber firm The OSINT Group, and the bestselling author of Undercover Copper, now being developed for TV. She gives audiences a gripping, first-hand take on cyber threat intelligence, resilience, and male-dominated worlds.
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Danni Brooke biography
Cybersecurity speaker Danni Brooke has lived one of the most extraordinary careers imaginable, from the shadows of undercover policing to the front line of the fight against cybercrime. Recruited into the Metropolitan Police’s elite undercover unit as a teenager, she became one of the most deployed female undercover officers in British policing history, spending more than a decade infiltrating organized crime gangs and disrupting drug networks, work so effective she was seconded to forces across the country. Today she brings that rare, real-world insight into human behavior, risk, and threat to audiences around the world.
After leaving the force, Brooke built an equally remarkable second career. She became one of the stars of Channel 4’s hit series Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, where her team is among the most successful across the show’s history, and co-founded The OSINT Group, a cybersecurity firm specializing in open-source intelligence and human-led threat awareness. Bringing an investigator’s mindset to the digital world, she now helps organizations understand and defend against the human side of cyber threats, the social engineering, deception, and open-source footprints that technology alone can’t catch.
From Undercover to Cyber
Brooke is the award-winning, Amazon bestselling author of Undercover Copper (originally published as The Girl for the Job), a gripping memoir of her undercover years that has been commissioned for a television drama series. Shortlisted for Cyber Woman of the Year, she is a sought-after keynote speaker, trainer, and media contributor who has delivered talks and masterclasses everywhere from Infosecurity Europe to LinkedIn, and teaches undercover and intelligence techniques to professionals worldwide.
As a speaker, Danni Brooke is captivating, authoritative, and genuinely inspiring, weaving jaw-dropping stories from her undercover career together with practical expertise on security, risk, and human behavior. She speaks on cyber threat intelligence and online safety, the human side of security and social engineering, resilience and performing under pressure, and thriving as a woman in intensely male-dominated fields. Audiences leave better informed, more secure, and genuinely inspired by a story like no other.
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Danni Brooke Keynote Topics
Most cyberattacks don't start with code, they start with people. Drawing on her years as an undercover investigator and her work co-founding the cybersecurity firm The OSINT Group, Danni Brooke reveals the human side of security that technology alone can't catch: social engineering, deception, manipulation, and the digital footprints we all leave behind. She shows audiences how criminals really operate and how to defend against them. A gripping, genuinely eye-opening keynote on open-source intelligence and human-led threat awareness.
Few speakers can tell a story like Danni Brooke's. In this spellbinding keynote she takes audiences inside her remarkable career, from being recruited into the Metropolitan Police's elite undercover unit as a teenager and infiltrating dangerous criminal gangs, to hunting fugitives on national television and tracking down cybercriminals today. Full of jaw-dropping, true stories, it is as entertaining as it is insightful, and carries powerful lessons about risk, trust, reading people, and courage under pressure.
As an undercover officer, Danni Brooke spent more than a decade in high-stakes, high-danger situations where a single mistake could be catastrophic, and where she could tell no one what she really did. In this powerful keynote she shares how she stayed calm, focused, and resilient under extraordinary pressure, and what that teaches the rest of us about managing stress, making decisions in uncertainty, and bouncing back from setbacks. An inspiring, practical talk on resilience from someone who has truly been tested.
Danni Brooke succeeded at the very top of two of the most male-dominated fields there are: undercover policing and cybersecurity. In this candid, empowering keynote she shares what she learned about backing yourself, breaking into "boys' clubs," turning being underestimated into an advantage, and leading as your authentic self. Honest and genuinely inspiring, it is an outstanding choice for International Women's Day, women's networks, and any organization committed to supporting women to rise.
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FAQs on Booking Danni Brooke
Why Danni Brooke?
Booking Danni Brooke brings audiences a genuinely unique speaker with a story like no other: one of the most deployed female undercover officers in British policing history, a star of Channel 4's Hunted, a bestselling author, and now a cybersecurity entrepreneur. Captivating, authoritative, and inspiring, she combines jaw-dropping true stories with real, practical expertise on cyber threat intelligence, risk, human behavior, and resilience. Whether she is addressing security professionals, corporate audiences, or a women's event, she leaves people better informed, more secure, and genuinely inspired. She is ideal for events on cybersecurity, resilience, women's empowerment, and leadership. To bring Danni Brooke to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Danni Brooke?
Danni Brooke is a former undercover police officer, cybersecurity expert, television investigator, and bestselling author. Recruited into the Metropolitan Police's elite undercover unit as a teenager, she spent more than a decade as one of the most deployed female undercover officers in British policing, infiltrating organized crime gangs and disrupting drug networks before leaving the force in 2013. She became one of the stars of Channel 4's Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, and co-founded The OSINT Group, a cybersecurity firm specializing in open-source intelligence and human-led threat awareness. She is the award-winning, Amazon bestselling author of Undercover Copper (originally published as The Girl for the Job), which has been commissioned for a TV drama, and was shortlisted for Cyber Woman of the Year 2025. She is now based in Spain.
What does Danni Brooke do now, and what is The OSINT Group?
After leaving the police, Danni Brooke turned her investigative skills to the digital world. She is the co-founder and co-owner of The OSINT Group, a cybersecurity firm specializing in open-source intelligence (OSINT) and "human-led threat awareness." OSINT is the practice of gathering intelligence from publicly available sources, the digital footprints people and organizations leave online, and Brooke's distinctive angle is the human side of cyber: the social engineering, deception, and behavioral patterns that pure technology often misses. Alongside her security business, she remains a familiar face on British television as an investigator on Channel 4's Hunted, teaches undercover and intelligence techniques to professionals around the world, and speaks and trains at major industry events such as Infosecurity Europe. In effect, she has carried the instincts of an elite undercover operative, reading people, spotting deception, and managing risk, directly into the fight against modern cybercrime.
What topics does cybersecurity speaker Danni Brooke cover?
Danni Brooke speaks on the human side of cyber and threat intelligence, her remarkable journey from undercover policing to cybercrime, resilience and performing under pressure, and thriving as a woman in male-dominated fields. Her keynotes suit events on cybersecurity, resilience, women's empowerment and International Women's Day, and leadership, for corporate, security, and general audiences. To book Danni Brooke as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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