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Chris Nickerson

IANS Faculty

Expertise

  • Red Teaming
  • Penetration Testing
  • Risk Management
  • Compliance & Governance
  • Team Structure & Management

Profile

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

Qualifications

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

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