Joe Brinkley

With more than two decades of experience in IT and offensive security, Joseph Brinkley is a hands-on penetration tester and red team leader widely known as "The Blind Hacker." At Cobalt, he leads the company's global offensive security research agenda, analyzing emerging vulnerabilities and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and embedding those insights into Cobalt's pentest methodologies, tooling, and Al-assisted workflows.