Christopher Porter Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Lead Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, and Physical Security and Safety for a Fortune 27, ~$30B (annual revenue), enterprise with over $4.3T worth of financial assets. Frequently perform education and deep dives with full Board of Directors as well as board committees. Engage with executive leadership & management committee members providing guidance and clarity on the cybersecurity program and risks potentially affecting the enterprise. Manage relationship and engagement with regulatory oversight bodies and examiners. Set priorities and objectives, at a technical, functional and governance level protecting the enterprise and critical infrastructure processes and capabilities associated with the US Housing Sector. Developed and implemented strategy leveraging relationships with venture capital firms to accelerate security technology roadmap. Leading strategy to “shift-left” and support the company’s digital & cloud transformation to preserve cyber protection & resilience.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Instructor for Cybersecurity Certificate Program

Spokane, Washington, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Built Verizon’s threat intelligence team and capability from the ground up. Led team that collects, aggregates, analyzes, and delivers intelligence to Verizon’s products, services, and internal security teams protecting Verizon’s global enterprise and consumer customers. Develop relationships, collaborate and partner with law enforcement, government agencies, vendors, and operation intelligence community in intelligence sharing programs. Led team in designing and developing a proprietary threat intelligence platform holding more than 20 million network and malware indicators from external, partner, and Verizon data sources. Provide intelligence briefings to customer executives and Verizon upper management & global sales force teams.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Primary author, analyst, and editor of Verizon’s DBIR (Data Breach Investigations Reports) series providing real world security incident information to support informed decision-making. The 2013 DBIR resulted in over 1000 media articles and is the most downloaded document from Verizon's website by a factor of 100X. Verizon sales and sales engineering teams were able to leverage this global visibility to provide additional credence to our position as a leader in the security space. Co-Creator of VERIS (Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing) Framework that provides a common language for describing security incidents reducing uncertainty and equivocality. Built business processes for collecting, organizing, & classifying security incident data. Developed risk model for Verizon’s Security Management Program assisting Verizon’s customers with prioritized actions for reducing risk. Presented research to hundreds of customers and at multiple conferences across the globe.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Responsible for delivering Cybertrust’s Security Management Program’s Enterprise Certification Program. Led team of security analysts delivering $5.3 million of contracts to Fortune 500 financial, insurance and health care institutions at over 80 global sites. Provided incident response analysis and assistance to aid clients in identifying, containing, and eradicating security incidents. Educated and informed client senior management regarding compliance and risk providing practical recommendations for remediation.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

(Formerly Trusecure and then Cybertrust)Responsible for delivering Cybertrust’s Security Management Program’s Enterprise Certification Program. Led team of security analysts delivering $5.3 million of contracts to Fortune 500 financial, insurance and health care institutions at over 80 global sites. Provided incident response analysis and assistance to aid clients in identifying, containing, and eradicating security incidents. Educated and informed client senior management regarding compliance and risk providing practical recommendations for remediation.

Baton Rouge, La, Us

Responsible for providing application, system, and network technical support to LSUHSC’s Juvenile Correction Program. Set up patch management and anti-virus protection processes. Administered and audited domain and application security assuring policy enforcement. Planned and designed network expansion projects.

Washington, Dc, Us

Provided application, system, and network technical support to the firm’s lawyers and staff. Migrated file and server systems from Novell/NT architecture to Windows 2000 Active Directory. Managed the deployment project of Blackberry Wireless devices to our firm’s attorneys.

Managed 7 multi-millon dollar military utility privatization projects. Led risk management discussions with military personnel and incorporated this information into a comprehensive risk analysis report. Evaluated financial and economic data to produce life cycle cost and economic analysis of operating expenses for military utility systems. Composed and published multiple RFI and RFP bids in the Commerce Business Daily. Negotiated budgets and produced contracts with partner firms.

Miramar, Florida, Us

Generated and executed a plan to monitor, review, and analyze product related data in a database containing over 60,000 products. Created and instituted a streamlined process to reduce data content errors in product creation and updating. Tested software requirements for proprietary tools used to administer new and existing products.

M.S., Management Of Information Technology

B.A., Economics And Psychology