Chris is responsible for leading or conducting social engineering, internal and external penetration testing; Windows host, network architecture, firewall and router/switch reviews as well as enterprise security architecture and design projects. He serves as the service line lead for the social engineering practice, maintaining and developing the methodology as well as continuously enhancing techniques to reflect the threat environment. Chris also provides client education services as an instructor of the Ultimate Hacking Foundstone courses.

Chris has over thirteen years of information security and risk management experience in the financial services, wholesale and retail industries. Most recently, Chris taught the Ultimate Hacking Foundstone course at the 2008 and 2011 Blackhat security conferences. He was also awarded second place in the Defcon 19 Social Engineering Capture The Flag (CTF) competition, exhibiting his ability to “schmooze” a call center employee into revealing sensitive corporate information.