Josiah Hagen

AI, ML and Cybersecurity Expert · Coalition for Secure AI Workstream Lead

Experience

Workstream Lead (concurrent) Coalition for Secure AI Oct 2024 – Present

WS2, Preparing Defenders for a Changing Threat Landscape. Lead cross-industry and academic development of best practices, frameworks, standards and tools to advance AI security.

Principal Azogue AI Dec 2025 – Present

Independent AI security practice applying knowledge graphs, machine learning and agentic systems to security problems. Research and public prototypes in GraphRAG, vulnerability management and LLM alignment metrology. Invited speaker on Zero Trust and securing the agentic stack.

Senior Staff Engineer, AI Lab Trend Micro Jan 2024 – Dec 2025

Inform strategy on AI risk and security, for product development and threat detection internally, and for externally marketing to customers, creating industry standards and informing global policy.

Manager of Forward Looking Threat Research Trend Micro Sept 2022 – Dec 2023

Lead senior threat researchers. Facilitate work. Manage projects. Create and edit code, papers, submissions. Mentor and review patent disclosures. Build proof of concept LLM and Knowledge Graph solutions. Drive company-wide LLMOps, RAG and Fine-Tuning.

Security Researcher Trend Micro Mar 2016 – Aug 2022

Research and develop ML solutions to discovering, classifying and acting upon threat data. Large scale malware clustering. Vulnerability prioritization. Cloud service architecture. Patent and paper writing.

Security Researcher Hewlett Packard, TippingPoint July 2013 – Feb 2016

Research and deploy new defenses for IPS, including Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) and Exploit Kit obfuscated script detection.

Control System Developer Intelligent Control Systems Plus Jan 2009 – Jun 2013

Create and deploy custom control system projects. Real time system programming. Author scoping contracts.

Software Developer Isilon Systems Jan 2006 – Jun 2007

Develop distributed file system check and profiling tools.

Software Developer Amazon Jun 2004 – Dec 2005

Lead project collecting, analyzing, alerting and remediating on telemetry from transactional messaging system.

Junior Architect Cycorp Nov 1998 – Jan 2004

Design, build, test, extend and support graph reasoning and heuristic search subsystems for large scale deductive inference.

Conference Speaking

YearVenueTitle
2026Duke Cybersecurity ConferenceSecuring the Agentic Stack
2026CSA Raleigh — AI StormCoSAI Guidance on Zero Trust for AI and Containment
2025LASCONApplying Personality to LLMs: Customized Security for the Age of Agentic AI
2025Triangle InfoseConBlueprint for AI Security: How to Hack Proof your AI Stack
2025World Summit AI USAdversarial AI Tactics and Their Implications for Securitywith Michelle Yi
2025RSACSafe AI Adoption: Best Practices and Standards from Coalition for Secure AIwith Ian Brelinsky (OpenAI)
2025Paris AI Security ForumIntroducing Coalition for Secure AIwith Marco Figueroa (Mozilla)
2024NVIDIA AI SummitAI for Threat Detectionwith Rachel Allen (NVIDIA)
2024LASCONThree Categories of Rogue AI and How to Mitigate Your Risk
2024South by Southwest (SXSW)Taken or Mistaken: AI’s Role in Virtual Kidnapping Scams
2023American Petroleum Institute Cybersecurity ConferenceHow Generative AI Changes the Threat Landscape
2019IEEE MalconDesigning Elements of a Fuzzy Hashing Scheme
2016Virus BulletinUsing ML to Stop Exploit Kits In-Line in Real Time
2013Insomni’hackMachine Learning for Security

Publications

YearVenueTitle
2020IEEE ISIScalable Malware Clustering Using Multi-Stage Tree Parallelization
2020IEEE COINSHAC-T and Fast Search for Similarity
2019IEEE MalconDesigning Elements of a Fuzzy Hashing Scheme
2016Virus BulletinUsing Machine Learning to Stop Exploit Kits In-Line in Real Time
2014IEEE RSDAFinding Domain Generating Algorithms by Looking At Length Distributions

Contributions

YearOrganizationTitle
2026CoSAI — Coalition for Secure AIZero Trust for AI Systems
2026MIT FutureTechPrioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence
2026CoSAI — Coalition for Secure AIAI Shared Responsibility Framework
2026CoSAI — Coalition for Secure AIModel Context Protocol Security
2025CoSAI — Coalition for Secure AIAI Incident Response Framework
2025CoSAI — Coalition for Secure AIPreparing Defenders of AI Systems
2025Paris Peace ForumForging Global Cooperation on AI Risks: Cyber Policy as a Governance Blueprint
2024UN Institute of Disarmament ResearchExploring the AI-ICT Security Nexus

Patents

16 granted U.S. patents. Numbers link to Google Patents.

  1. 9479524 Determine String Similarity Using Syntactic Edit Distance
  2. 9876755 Identifying Algorithmically Generated Domains
  3. 10528732 Identifying a Signature for a Data Set
  4. 10701031 Identifying Algorithmically Generated Domains
  5. 10757029 Network Traffic Pattern Based Machine Readable Instruction Identification
  6. 10878088 Identifying Randomly Generated Character Strings
  7. 11017079 Identifying Malicious Activity Using Data Complexity Anomalies
  8. 11042815 Hierarchical Classifiers
  9. 11044265 Methods for Intrusion Prevention Using Global and Local Feature Extraction
  10. 11063969 Detection of Periodic Transmissions for Identifying Malicious Computers
  11. 11080398 Identifying Signatures for Data Sets
  12. 11128664 Intrusion Prevention with Machine Learning Model for Real-Time Inspection
  13. 11288594 Domain Classification
  14. 11882148 Mitigation of Cyber Threats Using a Semantic Cybersecurity Database
  15. 12032705 Detecting an Operational State of AntiVirus Software
  16. 12511828 Scanning of Interactable Objects of Virtual Worlds

Blogs

Media & Interviews

YearInterviewerTitle
2025Shannon Murphy (Trend Micro)#TrendTalksAI — Exploring AI Protocols
2025Erin Tomie (Trend Micro)#TrendTalksLife — Frameworks for Safer AI
2025Yasmine Douadi (RiskIntel Media)L’Angle D’Attaque — Interview around Paris AI Summit