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Chris Nickerson
Nov 21, 2024, 15:17
Title :
Chris Nickerson
First Name :
Chris
Last Name :
Nickerson
Designation :
IANS Faculty
Job Title :
Co-Founder and CEO
Company :
LARES Consulting
Salesforce Contact ID :
0030b00002DyQijAAF
LinkedIn URL :
Twitter URL :
Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of LARES Consulting, an information security consulting firm that leverages a blend of assessment, testing, and coaching. He also serves on the Board of Directors at CREST, an international not-for-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security market.
- Red Teaming
- Penetration Testing
- Risk Management
- Compliance & Governance
- Team Structure & Management
- Appeared on Tiger Team on TruTV
- TEDx Presenter, Hackers are all about curiosity, and security is just a feeling
- Founding member of the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES)
- Co-founder of the BSides security conferences
- Speaker at information security conferences such as DEFCON, CyberWeek, and BlackHat
- Author of Red Team Testing: Offensive Security Techniques for Network Defense (2016)
- Collaborator with the Red Team Alliance Training Collective
- Former Senior Information Security Compliance Manager at Sprint
- IEM, IAM –National Security Agency(NSA)
- CISA – ISACA
- CISSP – (ISC)2
- BS7799
In his free time, Chris can be found out on the ski slopes or playing with his dogs.
Chris Nickerson joined IANS in 2019. As a member of our Faculty, he provides clients with deep domain-level expertise in the following areas: red teaming, penetration testing, risk management, compliance & governance, team structure & management.
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