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Chris Farris

Jun 24, 2025, 12:39
Title : Chris Farris
First Name : Chris
Last Name : Farris
Designation : IANS Faculty
Job Title : Owner and CEO
Company : PrimeHarbor Technologies
Salesforce Contact ID : 0035a00003EmWLTAA3
LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcfarris/
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Chris is the CEO and owner of PrimeHarbor Technologies, focusing on helping companies protect themselves in the public cloud. Chris has been involved in IT for over 30 years and built the cloud security programs at a number of well known media companies. He's also active in the cloud security community helping to warn the world about the dangers of public buckets and long term credentials.

  • Cloud Security Posture Management Tooling
  • Cloud Incident Response 
  • Cloud Security Cost Optimization
  • Serverless and Event Driven Architecture Security
  • Cloud IAM & Security Invariants
  • Named one of the inaugural AWS Security Heroes
  • Organizer of US & European Cloud Security Conferences (fwd:cloudsec)
  • Regular speaker at AWS re:Invent & re:Inforce, RSAC, BSides
  • BS in Computer Science
  • CISSP
When Chris is not diving into the intricacies of boto3, Chris is playing with legos, sipping single malt whiskeys, or traveling around the world. 
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