Christopher Bennett Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

At Ripple, I serve as a direct advisor to the CISO as the SME on Threat Detection and Response, and as a security generalist for the broader Information Security Team.I. Key Leadership Accomplishments - Partnered with the CISO to define team ownership, create a security strategy, and lead hiring, enhancing capacity and delivering a clear roadmap..

San Francisco, California, US

• Hired and trained a team of engineers to build out Okta’s Federal Detection and Response Team.
• Collaborated extensively across the organization to assess the company’s audit readiness andremediate deficiencies, leading to a successfully “passed” audit and no findings for my team.
• Engineered and deployed Detection and Response Processes and Tooling in a challenging,regulated environment - leveraging the assessment to deploy critical security improvementsthroughout the platform environment.

San Francisco, California, US

• General Functions
• Pivoted through complex, diverse, time-series event data to provide thoughtful analysis on security incidents and proactive threat hunts
• Wrote well-researched, well-engineered, and performant threat detections to raise events of concern to the forefront and meet our reporting requirements
• Took part in a team watch rotation, triaging alerts escalated via automated processes, internal reports, and third-party notifications
• Actively participated in incident response; contributed to IR process improvement and automation
• Wrote, maintained, and bolted on tools to automate/improve all aspects of our data analysis pipeline, from telemetry generation to playbook automation

Bethesda, MD, US

In my role in Research and Development for a large Enterprise Blue Team, my job is to solve the toughest Cyber Security challenges alongside my colleagues. This involves tasks such as Information Security Research, Threat Detection Development, Programming of Custom Tools, and Threat Hunting through the many different network types in our enterprise.In.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Managed an Industrial Control System network with over 38,000 tag values, 250 Ethernet devices, 9 servers, 20 workstations, and a variety of field controllers
• Responded to incidents in order to fault isolate and resolve device failure
• Performed server maintenance and troubleshooting, managed user accounts, and served as the Network Security manager for the program
• Participated in numerous ICS device installation and upgrade projects, and helped to integrate devices with data historian for data collection and trending.
• Managed an IBM Maximo Asset Management installation with over 5000 assets, and generated over 2000 PM work orders per month to drive facilities maintenance operations
• Developed custom SQL Queries and BIRT/Crystal reports in order to present trends and other critical data to the Program Manager

Somerset, Pennsylvania, US

Language support to DoD

Washington, DC, US

• Set up and established secure, tactical radio networks using established security practices and cryptographic equipment
• Oversaw the operation and ensured high availability of a tactical workstation/server network as well as communications link to headquarters from a remote site
• Maintained a language proficiency of 3/3 in the Persian-Afghan (Dari) Language
• Analyzed raw intelligence and generated reports based on relevant information
• Organized and taught lesson plans on Intelligence Collection and Analysis
• Governed the readiness, discipline, and effectiveness of a team of Marines

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Persian-Afghan (Dari)