Joshua Copeland

Quadrant Information Security

Leading a diverse team of cybersecurity professionals delivering best-in-breed SOC, XDR, EDR, TEM, services. Driving sales by supporting presale activities and service evolution.

Director of Managed Security Services

Senteon: CIS Benchmarks

Advises on product development, marketing, and security.  
Works with the Marketing and Sales organization on pre and post sale engagement
Advising and collaborating with customer CISOs and other security leaders on strategic vision

Advisor and Field CISO

Tulane University

Teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in the School of Professional Advancement's IT and Cybersecurity Programs.

https://sopa.tulane.edu/about-sopa/advisors-faculty-staff/joshua-copeland

Adjunct Faculty

Louisiana State Guard

Develop operations and training programs at the state level for the Cyber Reserve, including PME, Emergency Management, and Cybersecurity.  

Respond to statewide emergencies, both cyber-centric as well as natural disasters within the GOHSEP and Louisiana Department of Military frameworks.

Operations and Training Officer (S3), HQ Cyber Reserve

• Chief Warrant Officer 3 appointed as Team Lead for the Shreveport/GOHSEP Region 7 

•  The Louisiana Cyber Reserve, under the command of the Adjutant General of Louisiana, supports the LA National Guard Defense Cyberspace Operations Element (DCOE) to assist in Cyber Recovery & Remediation responses to eligible agencies and municipalities within Louisiana.

• To provide networking, education, & training that will strengthen the skill sets of IT professionals in Louisiana in order strengthen the defense posture and risk management mind set across the State, making
Louisiana more protected as there are no true boarders in the cyberworld. We are only as strong as our 
 weakest link, as a state and as a nation.

Region 7 Team Lead

Bose Corporation

•	Manage deep collaboration across Information Technology (IT), Product Security, and Business Partners to execute strategic security priorities and drive continuous improvement of cybersecurity program.

•	Manage a team of 40-50 security professionals serving all aspects of security operations globally

•	Active management of external partnerships that serve in partnership to manage and monitor 24/7 security operations.

•	Collaborate with the Security Strategy & Planning teams to develop roadmaps, enhancement strategies, and other transformational activities for the operations team

•	Lead holistic monitoring and detection capabilities for the security organization and the broader enterprise

Director of Enterprise Security

AT&T

Selected to lead the cybersecurity processes supporting a large state agency's network transformation.  Responsible to integrate cybersecurity baselines, best practices, GRC, and SSP within the division's various work streams related to the transformation and modernization program.

Security Director (Cyber)

SOC Director at AT&T's Custom Consulting Division - Cyber Operations. Providing cybersecurity services to multiple state and corporate customers in four independent tiered SOCs (Security Operations Center) and Content Engineering for SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) in a multi-tenant environment as part of a Managed Security Services (MSS) offering. Oversees the personnel management of 20+ Tier 2 analyst, 5 Tier 3 Analyst across multiple leveraged SOC environment.  Additional, oversees the multi-solution leveraged EDR service team focusing on SLTT customer based.

Security Operations Center (SOC) Director

Pinnacle Group, Inc.

SOC Operations Manager at AT&T's CyOps division. Providing cybersecurity services to multiple state and corporate customers in a tiered SOC (Security Operations Center) and Content Engineering for SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) in a multi-tenant environment as part of a Managed Security Services (MSS) offering.  Oversees the personnel management of 20+ Tier 2 analyst across 4 leveraged SOC environments.

SOC Operations Manager

Tier 3 Cybersecurity Analyst/Engineer Team Lead at AT&T's CyOps division.  Providing cybersecurity services to multiple state and corporate customers in a tiered SOC (Security Operations Center) and Content Engineering for SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)  in a multi-tenant environment as part of a Managed Security Services (MSS) offering.

Team Lead - Tier 3 Cybersecurity Analyst/Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

Leads a dynamic cross functional team providing subject matter expert level advice to assist management in aligning operational support with Enterprise requirements
Ensures a high performance, responsive and client-focused team
Fosters an environment of collaboration, inclusiveness and diversity through leadership, communications, and demonstrated behaviors
Contributes to the hiring, mentoring, performance management and retention of staff
Recommends and schedules technical staff assignments to complete support and project tasks, and verifies quality of the overall work products
Responsible for ensuring the security, integrity, and availability of information assets through the application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of IT services and the rapid and effective response to security incidents.
Perform/review scans, review the results, and write necessary reports and plans.
Utilize approved vulnerability scanning tools and reports, to identify, remediate and report vulnerabilities/trends and to support remediation analytics.
Interface with client, and ensure effective communication.

Cyber Security Engineer Senior Advisor (Team Lead)

Designs and develops new systems, applications, and solutions for external customer's enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks with a focus on McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and Tenable Nessus/Security Center.  Ensures system security needs established and maintained for operations development, security requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning and provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis. Integrates new architectural features into existing infrastructures, designs cyber security architectural artifacts, provides architectural analysis of cyber security features and relates existing system to future needs and trends, embeds advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, provides engineering recommendations, and resolves integration and testing issues. Interface with external entities including law enforcement, intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

2d Communications Squadron, United States Air Force

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber security and compliance in support HQ AFGSC, HQ 8AF, 2d Bomb Wing and associated tenant units.  Leads 17 personnel focused on comprehensive information protection serving as one of two assigned Information System Security Managers (ISSM).  Collaborates to ensure policy compliance to DoD policy, Air Force guidance,  and industry best practice standards utilizing defense industry standard processes as well as civilian mechanisms. Maintained the accreditation of two separate networks totally 16K users.  Directly responsible for the administration and management of Risk Management Framework (RMF), computer security (COMPUSEC), TEMPEST (formerly known as emission security EMSEC),  and DoD 8570 compliance programs .  Additionally, serves as the cyber security representative for the installation Threat Working Group (TWG).

NCOIC, Wing Cybersecurity Office

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber security and compliance in support of  DoD/CIO's Department of Defense Cybersecurity Culture and. Compliance Initiative (DC3I) and Command Cyber Readiness Inspection (CCRI) requirements.  Specifically, to drive the  F3VA kill chain (find, fix, finish, validate, analyze), and executes process to the greatest extent possible across multiple technology areas. Additionally, serves as the cyber security representative for the installation Threat Working Group (TWG).  Selected to work with RAND Corporation to study the effects of cyber attacks on industrial control systems vulnerability and resulting mission impact.

NCOIC, Mission Assurance Cell

In my current function I oversees various IT Projects and specifically the Command Cyber Readiness Inspection program. Additionally, I also serve as the Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all IT related issues for all Wing level inspection activities.

Senior IT Project Manager

Oversees the communication call center, IT maintenance support center, and IT hardware management functions. Supervises 40 military personnel responsible for 9,000 end users and $300M in IT assets. Serves as Unit SME on Physical, Personal, and Nuclear Security issues.

Section Chief, Client Service Center

Manages the units inspection program as well as holistically managing security.

Section Chief, Quality Assurance

Comprehensive IT support of Barksdale AFB's most Senior Leaders at HQ Air Force Global Strike Command, HQ 8th Air Force, 2d Bomb Wing and numerous tenet units.  Recognized as the Subject Matter Expert on BlackBerry Devices and "C" level support.

NCOIC, Executive Communications Flight

Manages all end user IT and telephone (POTS and VIOP) equipement installation and repair for 5000+users with over 7,500 end point devices.  Subject Matter Expert on BlackBerry mobile devices overseeing a BlackBerry Enterprise Server with 430 users.

Directly oversees a team of 30 Military and Contractor technicians.  Develops work flow, priorities, and training requirements.

Noncommissioned Officer in Charge, Client Systems

Comprehensive IT support of Barksdale AFB's most Senior Leaders.  Recognized as the Subject Matter Expert on BlackBerry Devices.

NCOIC, Information Management

United States Air Force

Computer Operations Supervisor

NCOIC, Resource Management

A cybersecurity leader and engineer with 25 years of experience, with a focus on holistic cloud and on-prem security approaches and specific expertise in building and operating security stacks, SOC operations, and cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes.  Key focus areas are building multi-faceted and diverse teams that translate the "bits and bytes" into "business capabilities and requirements." 

In my previous positions, I managed cybersecurity teams from 1 to 100+, oversaw physical, personnel, and cyber security programs, as well as traditional operational IT functions.  In these roles, I directed the organizational-level security and long-term compliance processes.

Since 2021, I have been the purveyor of #unpopularopinions as the "Unpopular Opinion Guy" SM or "UOG" on LinkedIn, covering topics like hiring, mentoring, and cybersecurity. 



Specialties: Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Information Assurance, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Desktop Support, ePO/HBSS,  Security Center/ACAS,  Policy, McAfee ESM SIEM, Devo SIEM,  Project Management, Social Engineering, Pen Testing, Secure Communications, Remote Desktop Support, Physical/Personnel Security, Hardening, DISA STIGs. 

Previous held TS/SCI Clearance, Public Trust, and CJIS.

Disclaimer:  Any opinions and posts expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer, vendor, or sponsor.

It is pre-Friday and It is a beautiful day here in Dallas.  Its time again for some more #unpopularopinion: #DataSecAI is the wake-up call cybersecurity needed.

Everyone keeps talking about AI like it’s some new frontier in cybersecurity.

But here’s skeleton in the closet…AI isn’t changing security…AI is exposing how bad we’ve been at securing data all along.

For years we acted like “data security” was a niche discipline.
A checkbox.
A compliance slide.
Something you throw at the DLP team and hope for the best.

Then GenAI showed up…
And suddenly we realized our data sprawl is massive.
Our controls are shallow.
Our governance is duct tape.
And our guardrails were built for an era where humans were the only ones reading sensitive information.

DataSecAI is the first conference I have found where people finally said the quiet part out loud: If we don’t get data security right, AI will punish us for it.

Not because AI is malicious: but because AI is fast, blind, literal, and obedient.

Feed it garbage, it scales garbage.
Expose it to sensitive data, it memorizes sensitive data.
Point it at the wrong repository, and it will happily turn your entire crown-jewel dataset into a training example.

But here’s the hype part:

If we do this right, AI becomes the greatest force-multiplier data security has ever had.

Automated classification.
Self-healing controls.
Real-time anomaly detection.
Adaptive access models that react faster than humans can even read the alert.

This isn’t the death of cybersecurity. This is the rebirth of it; rooted not in firewalls or dashboards, but in data intelligence, precision, and actual visibility.

So yeah, #unpopularopinion:

DataSecAI isn’t “another AI conference.” It’s the moment security finally realized the future isn’t securing systems; it’s securing the information those systems breathe.

BL: AI is about to make our mission both the biggest challenge
and the biggest opportunity of our careers.

Special shoutout to my buddy Rob Preta and Gabrielle Aura  for the invite and the amazing Cyera team at large for putting together a world class event 

#unpopularopinionguy

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Chipotle Mexican Grill

I use Enterprise Architecture techniques, tools and processes to support and inform conversations and actions around complex technology change.

I develop relationships, architectural models and communications to explore and develop ideas that may quickly and carefully provide and improve high value products to customers, employees and partners.

I like to use my experience, expertise and engagement style to help people achieve success and also to discover their “aha!” moment that creates a moment of heightened understanding, confidence and excitement for change.

My experiences from a variety of industries and different companies may bring insights and ideas around things to consider as well as lessons learned in things to avoid.

Enterprise Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Digital Product Manager

Chase

Enterprise Business Architect

JPMC

Help Business Managers and Executives define, organize and socialize target state business outcomes with IT Architecture and Delivery organizations to support enterprise transformation.

Senior Architect

Bank of America

As part of the Architecture Strategy and Planning group, I am involved in solutions architecture design to enterprise standards, governance for major integrated release programs.
Other work has involved me in developing and improving the quality and penetration of Non-Functional Requirements for solution quality in design and operational excellence. Regularly consulted and involved in standards development and enforcement, reference architecture patterns, application portfolio maturity and rationalization as well as shared services maturation and adoption. Have developed and implemented application maturity and health assessments for standards compliance and rationalization opportunities.
Experienced with DMAIC SDLC lifecycle methodology and associated change management and release management mechanisms.

Snr Enterprise Architect, Home Lending Division

Sogeti USA LLC

Professional Services consultant who implements architecture processes, artifacts and communications that intersect business, information and technology disciplines in order to:
- design more robust and business aligned technology solutions
- help IT form strategy for dynamic, complex technology environments
- to help C-level executives realize their objectives and meet goals

Practice Director for Enterprise Architecture

VP, Snr Enterprise Architect, Office of Architecture

JPMC - Corporate Technology - Shared Services GTI_AD

Chief Architect

JP Morgan Chase

System Architect

Bank One

The future is coming FAST. Large organizations are being challenged to implement high value change more quickly than ever before.

Change too quickly and you will waste money. Change too slowly and you will be out of business.

Change is hard, change is necessary and change is inevitable... and it's only getting faster.

I am an expert in TFOSMICAM. It’s an acronym.

Turning Future Oh Sh*t Moments Into Current Aha! Moments.

What I enjoy doing is applying an unconventional blend of techniques and skills that I am passionate to share and lead with, to help people in business understand how to transform their enterprise through advancing and accelerating change.

What skills and techniques? Design Thinking, Business architecture, Technology architecture, Storytelling, Value Stream and Use case modeling, Agile and highly collaborative ways of working that promote trust, quality and creativity.

Getting people to trust each other can be one of the most challenging parts of growing an enterprise.

I would love to find the position that allows me to lead, mentor, influence groups with communication, information, creativity and inspiration that will make high speed change exciting and achievable, without sacrificing quality.

My background and experience in government, telecommunications, education, military and financial sectors, as an employee and consultant has given me a breadth of perspectives that have helped me form my unique blend of skills and techniques.

What can I do for you? That depends. If you want an order taker, then look elsewhere. If you want someone who will respectfully challenge the status quo, apply engaging communication methods, lateral thinking, first principles design thinking and customer centric focus on products, then here I am.

Got digital? Yes.
Got agile? Yes.
Got game? I certainly hope so. Just not ball sports except if it's pinball.

Trust, inclusivity and diversity? Develop it, utilize it, nurture it.

I like to lead in ways that bring out the best in people and help them learn through doing, including the things that don't pan out. Most of all, I love to grow people in teams and to help them develop a sense of confidence and pride in their products and duty of care to their customers.

I don't like fire drills. They happen but I like to build in counter-measures so they may be avoided. No-one likes awkward conversations with the boss, but when they are necessary, you show up and own it.

Complex technology?
Complex workforce?
Complex business?
 
Bring it on.

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