Chris Farris

IANS Faculty

Expertise

  • Cloud Security Posture Management Tooling
  • Cloud Incident Response 
  • Cloud Security Cost Optimization
  • Serverless and Event Driven Architecture Security
  • Cloud IAM & Security Invariants

Profile

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.

Expertise

  • Cloud Security Posture Management Tooling
  • Cloud Incident Response 
  • Cloud Security Cost Optimization
  • Serverless and Event Driven Architecture Security
  • Cloud IAM & Security Invariants

Qualifications

Achievements & Contributions
  • 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
Certifications & Credentials
  • BS in Computer Science
  • CISSP

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