Joshua Smith is a senior vulnerability researcher and "FuzzOps" manager with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program. He analyzes and performs root-cause analysis on vulnerabilities submitted to the ZDI bug bounty program. However, his current focus is managing the infrastructure and tool development used to maintain the program and enable increased internal vulnerability discoveries. Joshua was also an external developer for the Metasploit Framework. Prior to joining ZDI, Smith served in the U.S. Air Force in various roles including as a nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Crew Commander and Instructor, but more relevantly as a penetration tester for the former 92d Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron. Post-military, he became a security engineer at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he began contributing to the Metasploit Framework. Smith performed research into weapons systems vulnerabilities as well as evasion and obfuscation techniques to add depth and realism to security device tests.

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