Christopher Fredrick Email & Phone Number

Deerfield, Illinois, US

Vernon Hills, IL, US

• Accountable for the management and maturity of the global cybersecurity framework, including cybersecurity operations, cybersecurity engineering, application security, security architecture, and incident response.
• Collaborated with CISO and other directors to define and implement a global information security strategy.
• Spearheaded selection, testing, and implementation of new cybersecurity capabilities, such as insider threat management and multiple endpoint protection platforms.
• Researched and implemented managed detection and response capability to ensure 24x7x365 detection and response to cybersecurity threats.
• Evaluated current security technology footprint and worked to reduce complexity and reduce operational expenses by decommissioning duplicative or underperforming technologies.
• Measured and evaluated compliance with policy and effectiveness of information security controls as part of assessing overall cybersecurity risk to the company.

Vernon Hills, IL, US

• Led the Global Office of the CISO program, including risk management compliance, governance, and cybersecurity.
• Defined, reviewed, and managed execution of global information security strategy and program.
• Worked with other IT leaders to achieve business outcomes and enable business.
• Maintained audit compliance with various frameworks, including ISO, PCI, and SOX.
• Monitored cybersecurity incidents and collaborated with other leaders in crisis response.
• Guided the Office of the CISO’s financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Led a team of 40 analysts and engineers that made up an industry-leading cybersecurity analytics framework.
• Headed 24x7x365 detection and disruption of malicious threat actors, cyber threat hunting to proactively identify anomalous behaviors and indicators of compromise across company enterprise, and cybersecurity incident.
• Drove collection and dissemination of cyber threat intelligence as well as adversary simulations to test defensive posture to improve ability to detect, disrupt, and respond to targeted attacks.
• Led engineering, content creation, automation, and system support of various technologies, including security information event management, full packet capture and analysis technologies, malware sandboxing.
• Oversaw endpoint detection and response, endpoint anti-virus, endpoint encryption, application whitelisting, and secure email gateway.
• Supervised hiring, training, coaching, mentoring, and evaluating performance of direct reports.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Managed a team of 11 engineers responsible for proper deployment and administration of technologies used by CSOC.
• Organized efforts to expand existing technologies and deploy new technologies needed by analysts, including user behavior analytics and endpoint detection and response technologies.
• Increased CSOC’s maturity by enhancing system health / performance monitoring and out-of-band management capabilities for all CSOC technologies.
• Reduced investment in technology renewals by consolidating technology platforms while expanding visibility.
• Onboarded new points of visibility into analytic engines.
• Obtained visibility into key subsidiary environments.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Served on team leading proper deployment and administration of technologies used by CSOC.
• Ensured that CSOC’s technologies were up to date and vendor supported and maintained proper visibility.
• Supported multiple efforts during 2015 nation state breach response.
• Deployed new capabilities needed for breach response activities and oversaw deployment of breach technologies in subsidiary environments.
• Coordinated collection of new log sources and data feeds needed for breach response.
• Researched and evaluated new technologies that supported CSOC’s core mission of identifying malicious network activity.

Newark, DE, US

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Assurancnce

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems

Associate'S Degree