Joshua Copeland

Joshua Copeland is Director of Cybersecurity at Crescendo AI, Deputy Commander of the Louisiana State Guard Cyber Reserve, and a graduate-level professor at Tulane University. Known as the “Unpopular Opinion Guy,” he challenges conventional security thinking by focusing on the human, cultural, and leadership failures that undermine even the best technical controls. His bestselling book "Unpopular Opinion: Burning Down the Bullsht to Rebuild Cybersecurity" has topped multiple Amazon categories, and he is the creator of the forthcoming "The Empathic Hacker." Joshua blends enterprise risk, state-level cyber defense, and emotional intelligence frameworks to help leaders move from checkbox compliance to resilient, people-centered security