User:Joseph Corso

Joseph John Corso was born just outside of Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. He was introduced to computers by his family at the age of 5 or 6.

While friends were playing outside or on an Atari, he was given a Commodore 64, and then worked through Tandy, Apple IIe, and the early Compaq Presario models.

He grew with Microsoft by using DOS and modified batch files long before the autoexec.bat file would become a part of IT Administrators' lives.

As a natural reverse engineer of things who would take on an interest in social and civil engineering later in life, he understood the inner workings of the chips early in life. Although he understood the lines of code from a batch file, without formal programming instruction, he would ultimately learn programming at the server-to-server level. By studying token handoffs during authentication processes using packet sniffing software, log analysis and other network analysis tools, he would see the connections of servers in Single Sign-On solutions as having what would appear to be every day, almost human, cleartext discussions.

Gaming was but a small side interest entering into middle school. Ultimately, it can be seen as something that kept him involved just a little more with computers so as to basically understand how to upload and download from the Internet using FTP and terminal applications. He wandered down the path of the early Internet, the BBS system, and the early hourly hubs to the web… Compuserve, America Online, and Prodigy. Early on, the futurist in him sensed how the “always-on” broadband connection and the “unlimited” America Online business model changes would change the entire world.

These changes made him want to be online 24/7. He only expected that sooner or later, everyone everywhere would be, or would like to be, online all of the time as well.

Joseph then attended Malden Catholic High School with a focus on Science, Math, and Technology. Upon arrival at Northeastern University for what would be the start of a Pre-Med program, his science skills and belief in the scientific method had affected almost daily decision making, forcing everything to be hypothetical, theoretical, questionable, and argumentative. Bringing this over to Networks and IT Security created a rigid mindset of what Policies and Procedures should look like in a world of almost nonstop security breaches. The rigid thinking described here is what led to the re-founding of Secure Solutions, a startup from 2001, to occur. Joseph rebranded the company as Secure Network Architecture, Inc. in 2015.

Joseph worked his way into the industry with end-users from some of the industry's largest legal, educational, financial, and entertainment clients. As he formed his career in Information Technology, Joe created processes that worked better than those of his colleagues. In doing so, he found methodologies in troubleshooting networks and systems which helped him to excel against his peers when working with people around technology. Through a role as an IT Instructor for Microsoft Certificate Programs, he was able to figure out how people came to understand technology, how they would learn to use it, and how they got through mental roadblocks.

Joseph’s hobbies include fishing, camping, setting up saltwater reef aquaria, restoring antique automobiles, the motorcycle industry, drag racing, travel, IT security, and all wireless technologies. He loves science, and although he appreciates them all, he was always drawn to astronomy and space.