Joshua Wright
Technical Director at SANS Institute
East Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Wright is a technical director and seasoned information security consultant with 16 years of experience delivering penetration tests, incident response, and expert witness services while leading training programs that accelerate offensive and defensive skills. As a long-time SANS Faculty Fellow and lead at Counter Hack Challenges, he blends hands-on red-team expertise with curriculum design to help practitioners rapidly become effective operators. He contributes to open-source detection tooling like DeepBlueCLI, focusing on Windows event-log analytics to surface service tampering, credential theft, and password spray behaviors. Known as a pragmatic educator and motivator, he combines courtroom-grade consulting with classroom clarity—an accidental educator who still considers Rhode Island not an island.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Information Science, Information Science/Studies, Bachelor of Information Science, Information Science/Studies at Johnson & Wales University
Github Skills (11)
powershell10
audit10
code-auditing10
audit-logging10
auditing10
audit-trail10
incident-response8
anti-malware8
malware8
mitre-attack7
att7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sans-blue-team/DeepBlueCLI
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributes to the `DeepBlueCLI` PowerShell module, focusing on security event log analysis. Their work includes adding detection capabilities for malicious activities such as service tampering, Mimikatz usage, password spray attacks, and sensitive privilege use, specifically tailoring detections to Windows security events. They implemented and refined detections by analyzing event IDs, extracting relevant data, and setting up alerts for suspicious patterns.
joswr1ght/pptxurls
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
Generate a Markdown file of all links in one or more PowerPoint documents
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
markdown-filepowerpointmarkdownlinks
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