Josh Brower
Partner at Brower Law PS
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Brower is a Partner and outside General Counsel based in Seattle with 11 years of focused experience advising on land use, real estate development, corporate formation, growth, governance and exit strategies. He represents privately held companies—including a global specialty food firm—and handles complex project permitting, renewable energy development (including wind farms), and sophisticated real estate transactions. A seasoned trial attorney, he manages litigation end-to-end from motions and mediation to trials and appeals, bringing practical courtroom experience to transactional risk management. His background in environmental science and policy informs a pragmatic approach to permitting and sustainable development issues. Beyond law, Josh applies technical operational skills to security and infrastructure projects—contributing DevOps and security engineering work to prominent open-source tooling like Security Onion—highlighting an uncommon blend of legal, environmental and technical expertise. He earned a JD, cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and a BA in Environmental Science and Policy from Hampshire College.
11 years of coding experience
JD, cum laude, JD, cum laude at Seattle University School of LawBA, Environmental Science and Policy, BA, Environmental Science and Policy at Hampshire College
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Github Skills (20)
bash10
security10
devops10
intrusion-detection10
security-txt9
dockers9
threat-hunting9
docker9
security-scan9
network-security9
nginx9
powershell6
google-chrome6
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Security Engineer
DevOps & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 210 reviews, 648 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration management of the Security Onion platform. They focused on setting up and configuring a Fleet management system, including the creation of setup scripts (so-fleet-setup.sh), and integration with the HH-Launcher and related packages. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancements to system security, as evidenced by the enabling of Zeek BPF and Community ID. Their contributions involved integrating the platform with the security tools and modifying nginx configurations for proxying to various services, demonstrating expertise in systems administration and security hardening.
case-managementkibanalogstashopen-platformzeek
defensivedepth/Sysmon_OSSEC
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
rulesetseventssysmondecoderossec
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