Joe Gray

Senior OSINT Specialist

Joe Gray is currently a Senior OSINT Specialist at Qomplx, Inc. He previously maintained his own blog and podcast called Advanced Persistent Security. Joe is currently finishing a social engineering and OSINT book with NoStarch press, due for publication in Fall 2020. Joe is the inaugural winner of the DerbyCon Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) and was awarded a DerbyCon Black Badge. As a member of the Password Inspection Agency, he placed 2nd in the HackFest Quebec Missing Persons CTF powered by TraceLabs, 2nd in the BSides Atlanta OSINT CTF, and 3rd Place in the 2018 & 2019 NOLACon OSINT CTFs. Joe has independently placed 2nd in the HackFest Quebec SECTF, 4th Place in the DerbyCon OSINT CTF, and 2nd Place in Hacker Jeopardy at Hack in Paris. He has contributed material to TripWire, AlienVault, ITSP Magazine, CSO Online, Forbes, and Dark Reading as well as his own platforms. Joe has spoken at conferences such as RSA, DerbyCon, AtlSecCon, HackFest, SecTor, Insomni’hack, Hack in Paris, and HackerHalted (twice as a keynote speaker).