Summary
Joe Bagdon is a Principal Security Engineer with three decades of experience blending hands-on offensive testing, cloud and on-premise security operations, and executive-level risk and compliance guidance. He has led security programs across industries—achieving SOC2, HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001, and NIST outcomes—while building and automating secure infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and cloud-native tools like GuardDuty and Security Hub. Comfortable moving from boardroom CISO-as-a-service strategy to scripting RESTful integrations in Python and PowerShell, Joe also architects logging/monitoring and SIEM platforms (SumoLogic, Splunk, Q-Radar) and deploys WAFs, IDS/IPS, and HIDS solutions. His background in Air Force information warfare underpins a pragmatic adversary-aware approach to defense, and he’s repeatedly rebuilt teams and processes to turn security into an enabler rather than a blocker. Known for operationalizing vulnerability management and incident detection at scale, he brings a rare combination of deep technical craft, compliance rigor, and experience securing multi-site global environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at American Military University
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at University of Arkansas Grantham
Information Technology, Information Technology at University of Phoenix
Information Warfare, Information Warfare at United States Air Force
English