Chris Silvers, CISSP, CWNA, CEH, CEI, Foundstone Role 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 as well as the Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH), Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) and Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) courses. Chris has over thirteen years of information security and risk management experience in the financial services, wholesale and retail industries. Prior to working at Foundstone, Chris held the position of Security Architect at a Fortune 15 Company. While serving as a consultant for affiliate companies, Chris implemented process improvements though the use of discovery templates, process standardization and automation that saved the company over 50% in travel costs and reduced the information risk management assessment timeframe by over 80%. While working at a major central bank, Chris helped establish an inter-divisional team of penetration testers that continues to provide world-class service to that organization. Most recently, Chris taught the Ultimate Hacking Foundstone course at the 2008 Blackhat security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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