Joseph Avanzato
Security Specialist Team Leader at Varonis
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Avanzato is a Security Specialist Team Leader with nine years of hands-on experience in DFIR, detection engineering, threat hunting, and offensive/defensive tool development. At Varonis he leads client-facing forensics and purple-team engagements, builds automation for alert analysis, and helps global customers investigate and evict advanced threat actors. Previously he led cyber detection at Paychex, creating MITRE-aligned SIEM content, large-scale telemetry pipelines, and innovative fraud-detection strategies across 40k+ endpoints. He pairs deep technical skills in Splunk, Python/PowerShell, and exploit/EDR research with a research-minded background (MS in Computing Security) and a knack for turning adversary techniques into actionable detections. Notably, he runs an active community for tool discussion and publishes custom blue/red team tooling and automations that bridge incident response and product improvement.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computing Security, 4.0, Master of Science (MS), Computing Security, 4.0 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Physics and Political Science, Bachelor's degree, Physics and Political Science at University of Rochester
English, Spanish
Github Skills (51)
windows10
log-parser10
persistence10
malware10
geolocation10
powershell10
incident-response10
concurrent9
shodan9
whois9
csv8
threat-intelligence8
security8
psexec7
endpoint-security6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joeavanzato/Trawler
Apr 2023 - May 2025
PowerShell script helping Incident Responders discover potential adversary persistence mechanisms.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 114 PRs in 2 years
powershelldfirblue-teamincident-responsemalware
joeavanzato/LogBoost
Nov 2023 - Feb 2026
Convert a variety of log formats to CSV while enriching detected IPs with Geolocation, ASN, DNS, WhoIs, Shodan InternetDB and Threat Indicator matches.
Contributions:10 releases, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 3 months
csvdnsgeolocationshodanwhois
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