Josh Schmidt

Josh started his career building IT systems in 2009 and has nearly a decade of experience working directly with clients on IT security and compliance challenges. Today, he continues this important work by leading BPM’s cutting-edge Cybersecurity Assessment Services team that provides in-depth, rigorous security assessments for organizations of all sizes and industries.

By emulating threat actors through technical TTPs (techniques, tactics, procedures) and social engineering, Josh and his team of IT security professionals provide clients with the insight required to defend their networks and applications against the latest cybersecurity threats.

Leveraging his offensive experience and formal incident response/digital forensic training, he leads a team that assists clients during active cybersecurity breaches and provides forensic support after the fact to review network breaches, email compromise, malicious insiders and digital evidence in forensic accounting cases.

Josh has expertise in cybersecurity assessment, adversarial threat assessment, and digital forensics and incident response. He has personally conducted over 250 client engagements during his career and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.