IT-Defense 2025Jos Wetzels

Jos Wetzels

Jos Wetzels is a co-founding partner at Midnight Blue. His research has involved reverse-engineering, vulnerability research and exploit development across various domains ranging from industrial and automotive systems to IoT, networking equipment and deeply embedded SoCs. He has discovered zero-day vulnerabilities across tech stacks ranging from bootloaders and RTOSes to proprietary protocol implementations.

At Midnight Blue, he has consulted to government agencies, grid operators, national critical infrastructure, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide and has been involved in the first ever public analysis of the TETRA radio standard used by police and critical infrastructure globally - uncovering several critical vulnerabilities.

Prior to founding Midnight Blue, he worked as a security researcher and reverse engineer at Forescout where he developed state-of-the-art intrusion detection capabilities for Operational Technology (OT) environments. Jos is a regular conference speaker and has presented at events such as Black Hat, DEF CON, CCC, Usenix, HITB, OffensiveCon, ReCon, EkoParty, and others.