Joe Hitchcock is passionate when it comes to system and network security. Initially self-taught, he started working as an independent contractor for small businesses doing malware removal and perimeter security. He started at Alert Logic in 2011 as a Network Security Analyst analyzing threat traffic and other attacks. Afterwards, he worked in Security Research and eventually became one of the first Analysts to work on the Web Security team supporting Web Security Manager WAF. He was eventually promoted to a Senior Web Security Analyst where his job included building custom security policies, researching new web attacks and adding custom signatures to better WSM detection.