Joshua Wright
Professor
Director and Senior Security Analyst at CounterHack
Specialities
Offensive Operations, Digital Forensics and Incident Response
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About Joshua
Joshua Wright is a SANS Faculty Fellow, Senior Technical Director at Counter Hack Innovations, and the author of SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling, one of the most widely taken courses in the SANS curriculum. A member of the SANS instructor community since 2003, he has spent more than two decades teaching cybersecurity professionals, developing hands-on training, and contributing research and open-source tools to the security community. His work spans penetration testing, wireless security, incident response, and the design of realistic adversary simulations.
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Recognitions
- SANS Institute / Book Publication / 2026 Dynamic Incident Response, a free 720-page book introducing the DAIR framework for iterative incident response.
- RSA Conference / Featured Speaker and Panelist / Ongoing Recurring presenter on the SANS Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques panel, sharing research, attacker techniques, and practical guidance for defenders
- GitHub / Open-Source Security Tools and Research / Ongoing Creator and contributor to security tools including KillerBee, KillerZee, and other projects supporting wireless security research, penetration testing, and vulnerability analysis
- Conference Presentations / Security Research and Technical Talks / Ongoing Speaker at DEF CON, Black Hat, ShmooCon, ToorCon, CanSecWest, Wild West Hackin' Fest, and others, presenting original research and offensive security techniques
- McGraw Hill / Book Publication / 2015 Co-author of Hacking Exposed Wireless, Third Edition, covering wireless security vulnerabilities and attack techniques
- U.S. Patent Office / Wireless Distance Estimation Patent / 2013 Named inventor of U.S. Patent 8,519,884, developed at Aruba Networks, covering improved distance estimation using wireless signal strength and transmitter characteristics