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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
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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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