Chris Farrell Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Directing a team of 10, including five scanning specialists and five segment liaisons, orchestrating vulnerability management across The Walt Disney Company, encompassing Corporate, Studios, DPEP, and DMED. This role involves leading both operational scanning efforts and strategic risk communication, enhancing enterprise-wide cybersecurity.• Spearheading the company’s AI-driven vulnerability management strategy, resulting in the creation of an advanced threat and vulnerability intelligence application that provides targeted assessments of emerging risks.• Initiating and continuously refining an urgent response framework, achieving a more cohesive and efficient enterprise response to cybersecurity threats through systematic integration and post-incident enhancements.• Developing and leading enterprise-wide tabletop exercises, directly improving the organization's preparedness and strategic response to critical vulnerabilities.• Utilizing red team expertise to author custom, secure validation scripts during zero-day threats, ensuring the precision of risk assessments when conventional scanning tools fall short.• Co-developing a novel device risk assessment strategy, incorporating cross-technology insights to holistically address and mitigate risks, leveraging tools such as Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, Qualys, Tanium, Wiz, and AWS Inspector.

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Led vulnerability management for DMED, overseeing a portfolio of over 20,000 assets across high-visibility brands including ESPN, National Geographic, ABC, Star, and HotStar.• Executed a seamless migration from BeyondTrust Retina to Tenable.io for enhanced security monitoring, achieving 100% scanning coverage across global operations.• Developed a unique risk assessment model using Splunk, incorporating data from ServiceNow, Palo Alto, F5, and CrowdStrike. Created tailored dashboards that mapped vulnerabilities to business risk, improving decision-making efficiency.• Led DMED’s cybersecurity response to high-profile vulnerabilities including Log4Shell and PrintNightmare, coordinating rapid remediation response across international teams.

New York, New York, Us

• Served on Agio’s penetration testing team, evaluating and reporting on areas of live risk for Finance and FinTech clients within networks, Active Directory, Wi-Fi, web applications, and public facing infrastructure.• Served 10 clients as vCISO, providing guidance on security governance, vulnerability management, and comprehensive risk reduction strategy.• Took on additional responsibilities in performing social engineering exercises, vendor risk assessments, security architecture reviews, policy evaluations, delivering tabletop training sessions, and hosting security awareness seminars• Innovated cybersecurity testing techniques by devising custom tooling to enhance Bloodhound reports, pulling actionable information to the surface in a ready and customizable fashion.

New York, Ny, Us

• Designed curriculum for and led CISC 3600: Secure Cyber Networks

New York, Ny, Us

• Drove vulnerability management initiatives, proactively collaborating with stakeholders to develop risk reduction strategies.• Conducted red team and penetration testing activities, enhancing vulnerability reporting through safe demonstration of attack methodologies.• Developed custom risk assessment dashboards using Sumo Logic to display Qualys data alongside inventory reporting and red team findings.• Led the University’s response efforts for the EternalBlue vulnerability.

• Provided full-scope security analysis, including incident handling and remediation guidance.• Contributed to business growth by identifying opportunities for improving client security controls.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Served as ISSO (Information Systems Security Officer), Systems Administrator, and Network Engineer within the ship’s SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility).• Took on additional responsibilities to ensure continuous uptime of signal intelligence operations.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Led a network operations center (NOC) shift group.• Founding member of the unit’s IT training team.• Collaborated on authoring a manual that collected unit tribal IT knowledge.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Coordinated the helm & lookout watch rotation as Master Helmsman.• Contributed to successful high seas drug interdiction efforts.• Maintained vessel safety and operational readiness by performing deck maintenance.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Security

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Technology Systems