Joshua Wright
Faculty Fellow and Senior Technical Director, SANS Institute and Counter Hack Innovations
Faculty Fellow and Senior Technical Director, SANS Institute and Counter Hack Innovations
Joshua Wright is the senior technical director for Counter Hack Innovations and a faculty fellow for the SANS Institute. As a professional penetration tester, he has identified and disclosed critical security vulnerabilities for Fortune 500 companies, national infrastructure providers, casinos, banks, cloud service providers, smart toys, and more. He is the author of the SANS course SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling, and is the dean of students for the SANS Technology Institute, a career-focused undergraduate and graduate college dedicated exclusively on cybersecurity. "We can choose to accept that widespread compromise is inevitable for every company, or we can apply deep technical insight and understanding to protect what is most important. I prefer the latter."