Chris Boucek

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.

Chris Boucek

Hear Chris on stage

Live from the ILTACON and SuriCon stages.

ILTACON 2026 · Nashville: “Anatomy of a Breach”: why the FBI’s Silent Ransom Group advisories matter to more than your IT team.
“These advisories are seen by your insurers as well. It’s not just your IT team reading these.” · 1 min 17 s
SuriCon 2025 · Montréal: “Modern Techniques for Visibility and Detection in the Cloud”: why the shift to endpoint left the network behind, and what flow logs can never tell you.
“Network traffic is really always involved. It’s just become more difficult to look at.” · 1 min 23 s
Book Chris to speakSee 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

  1. Nov 2026SuriCon LisbonSuriCon · Lisbon, Portugal
  2. Aug 2026Anatomy of a Breach: Break, Pivot, ExtractILTACON · Nashville, USA
  3. Nov 2025Modern Techniques for Visibility and Detection in the CloudSuriCon · Montreal, Canada
  4. Aug 2025Navigating Multi-Cloud ChallengesILTACON · Washington, USA
  5. Nov 2024A Comparison of Security Monitoring ApproachesILTACON · Webinar, Remote
  6. 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.

Chris Boucek — headshot

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 at eSentire, 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 at Akamai 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

LinkedIn →[email protected] →Download headshot →

Upcoming events

On the calendar.

  1. Nov 2026

    SuriCon Lisbon

    SuriCon · Lisbon, Portugal

    Suricata user community's annual conference, hosted in Lisbon.

Recent

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Aug 2025

    Navigating Multi-Cloud Challenges

    ILTACON · Washington, USA

    Multi-cloud operating model and security challenges for legal-industry IT leaders.

  4. Nov 2024

    A Comparison of Security Monitoring Approaches

    ILTACON · Webinar, Remote

    Comparative analysis of security monitoring approaches for legal-industry technology teams.

  5. Aug 2024

    Security Monitoring Approaches by MDR Providers

    ILTACON · Nashville, USA

    How MDR providers actually approach security monitoring — strengths, tradeoffs, and evaluation criteria.

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