Speaking · Legal · Accounting · Boards

The cybersecurity practitioneryour boardroom doesn’t have.

For the legal, finance, and board audiences that need one.

Twenty years hands-on defense. Network detection, MDR at 1,500-organization fleet scale, four 0-to-1 launches. Currently at Akamai.

Book Chris to speak See the three tracks

20years

hands-on cybersecurity

1,500+orgs

defended at fleet scale

70+countries

deployed across

3,000+sensors

in the detection fleet

40→1

product launches

CISSP

· Pragmatic PMC-IV

Three tracks

Where a real defender's voice is rare.

I focus my speaking on three audiences that structurally need practitioner-grade cybersecurity translation — and rarely get it. Each track adapts to panel, keynote, workshop, or fireside format.

Legal

Law firms & in-house counsel

Signature keynote“Anatomy of a Breach — Break, Pivot, Extract”

How a modern intrusion actually unfolds, translated for the room that has to defend the firm and the client.

3 ILTACon appearances (2024, 2025, 2026 Nashville) + ILTA webinar

Accounting & finance

Fiduciary firms & wealth advisors

Signature keynote“Cybersecurity for the Fiduciary Firm”

Practitioner-grade security for partner-owned firms — SEC realities, wire-fraud patterns, the tech stack you actually have.

Ten years defending 1,500 client organizations at a PE-backed MDR platform

Boards & executives

Directors, GCs, CFOs

Signature keynote“Cybersecurity as Governance Risk”

Plain-English cyber risk for the board — what actually matters, what cyber insurance really does, and what to ask your CISO.

Grew $30M+ ARR platform through a PE-backed commercial environment. Now Sr Solutions Engineer at Akamai.

Track record

This isn't a first stage.

A program chair's helper needs proof they can forward. Here it is — the stages, the environment, and the classroom.

On stage

Recent conference appearances

Nov 2026SuriCon LisbonSuriCon · Lisbon, Portugal
Aug 2026Anatomy of a Breach: Break, Pivot, ExtractILTACON · Nashville, USA
Nov 2025Modern Techniques for Visibility and Detection in the CloudSuriCon · Montreal, Canada
Aug 2025Navigating Multi-Cloud ChallengesILTACON · Washington, USA
Nov 2024A Comparison of Security Monitoring ApproachesILTACON · Webinar, Remote
Aug 2024Security Monitoring Approaches by MDR ProvidersILTACON · Nashville, USA

Full speaking history on the global footprint page.

In the room your board knows

eSentire — PE-backed MDR

10 years at eSentire, a PE-owned global Managed Detection & Response platform
$30M+ ARR product surface under ownership
1,500+ tenant organizations across 70+ countries
3,000-sensor Zeek/Suricata detection fleet
4 × 0-to-1 launches — Incident Response, Multi-tenant NDR, Dark Web Monitoring, SaaS Threat Intelligence
Executive + Board cadence with CEO, CPO, and PE owners

The commercial environment your CFO, GC, or board audience is already measuring — not a research lab, not a consultancy. Currently Senior Solutions Engineer at Akamai.

In the classroom

Guelph MCTI & practitioner training

Guest lecturer, University of Guelph MCTI (Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence)
Graduate lecture: CIS*6590 — Network Detection and Response, Guelph (2023)
Guest session: Threat Intelligence & Cyber Careers, Guelph MCTI (2023)
Working session: Packet Capture Techniques in Datacenters, Security Architect Training, Buffalo (2020)

Graduate-level cybersecurity teaching — the same practitioner-grade material adapts naturally to non-technical rooms.

Meet Chris

A defender who can talk to your room.

I’ve spent twenty years in the trench — network engineering, systems, MDR, and network detection. Ten of those ateSentire, a private-equity-owned global Managed Detection & Response platform, where I ran a Zeek/Suricata detection fleet across 1,500 client organizations in 70+ countries and led four 0-to-1 product launches on a $30M+ ARR surface. Today I’m a Senior Solutions Engineer atAkamai and a guest lecturer in the Guelph MCTI program (Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence).

I speak because the audiences I care about — legal firms, fiduciary practices, corporate boards — deserve a defender in their room who’s operated in the same high-stakes commercial environment they measure.

Credentials: CISSP · Pragmatic PMC-IV · CCNP · ITILv3
Base: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Travel: Global — Canadian & Czech citizen, US TN visa, NEXUS + Global Entry
Fees: Commercial engagements compensated · public-benefit and nonprofit pro bono or reduced

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Upcoming events

On the calendar.

Aug 2026
Anatomy of a Breach: Break, Pivot, Extract
ILTACON · Nashville, USA
How a modern intrusion actually unfolds — initial break, lateral pivot, staged extraction — and where detection, response, and post-SOAR investigation change the outcome.
Nov 2026
SuriCon Lisbon
SuriCon · Lisbon, Portugal
Suricata user community's annual conference, hosted in Lisbon.

Recent

Nov 2025
Modern Techniques for Visibility and Detection in the Cloud
SuriCon · Montreal, Canada
Cloud visibility and detection techniques delivered at the Suricata user community's annual conference.
Aug 2025
Navigating Multi-Cloud Challenges
ILTACON · Washington, USA
Multi-cloud operating model and security challenges for legal-industry IT leaders.
Nov 2024
A Comparison of Security Monitoring Approaches
ILTACON · Webinar, Remote
Comparative analysis of security monitoring approaches for legal-industry technology teams.
Aug 2024
Security Monitoring Approaches by MDR Providers
ILTACON · Nashville, USA
How MDR providers actually approach security monitoring — strengths, tradeoffs, and evaluation criteria.
Oct 2022
The State of Packet Capture in a Hybrid Infrastructure
Black Hat Toronto (SecTor) · Toronto, Canada
Where packet capture earns its keep — and where it stops scaling — across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid network footprints.

Book Chris to speak

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The cybersecurity practitioneryour boardroom doesn’t have.

Where a real defender's voice is rare.

Law firms & in-house counsel

Fiduciary firms & wealth advisors

Directors, GCs, CFOs

This isn't a first stage.

Recent conference appearances

eSentire — PE-backed MDR

Guelph MCTI & practitioner training

A defender who can talk to your room.

On the calendar.

Anatomy of a Breach: Break, Pivot, Extract

SuriCon Lisbon

Modern Techniques for Visibility and Detection in the Cloud

Navigating Multi-Cloud Challenges

A Comparison of Security Monitoring Approaches

Security Monitoring Approaches by MDR Providers

The State of Packet Capture in a Hybrid Infrastructure

Tell me about the event.

Thanks — inquiry received.