Josh Williams

Josh Williams is currently the Senior Advisor for Network Defense Protection, LLC. Josh is a cyber security executive with more than 35 years of strong technical and leadership experience, in both the public and private sectors.  Most recently Vice President and Chief Security Officer for global IT Infrastructure Solutions, Data Storage and Cloud Services firm headquartered in the Fort Meade, MD area.  Josh conceived and is implementing the first-in-the-nation Cyber Security Apprenticeship Program. Lead the contractor team instrumental crafting the FedRAMP HIGH baseline and in attribution of the nation-state OPM hack maleficent; His Federal career culminated with command of the lead element, tactical Scientific & Technical Intelligence (S&TI) community responsible for gaining access to and exploiting captured or acquired foreign systems.