Chris Nickerson
IANS Faculty
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.
Expertise
- Red Teaming
- Penetration Testing
- Risk Management
- Compliance & Governance
- Team Structure & Management
Achievements & Contributions
- 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
Certifications & Credentials
- IEM, IAM –National Security Agency(NSA)
- CISA – ISACA
- CISSP – (ISC)2
- BS7799
Hobbies & Fun Facts
In his free time, Chris can be found out on the ski slopes or playing with his dogs.