CISSP-certified security practitioner, award-winning pre-sales engineer, and independent voice in InfoSec. Two decades helping Fortune 100 enterprises navigate hard security problems — from threat modeling to architecture to actual adoption.
From architecture to adoption, from threat intelligence to the deal cycle — a full-spectrum practitioner who has lived every layer of the stack inside Fortune 100 organizations.
Practitioner-level depth in ZTNA, SASE, and identity-centric security. Advises Fortune 100 enterprises on full architectural transformations — what to build, what to buy, and how to make it stick across an organization that has other priorities.
Named Zscaler Global SE of the Year. A decade of full-cycle technical sales: discovery, whiteboarding, custom proofs of concept, competitive displacement, and champion development at scale.
Ransomware-as-a-service, supply chain compromise, nation-state tradecraft, social engineering, and zero-day exploitation — tracked weekly on PEBCAK, and applied Monday through Friday in the field.
Bridges technical teams and business outcomes. Builds maturity assessments, policy optimizations, and adoption playbooks that produce measurable security improvement — and retention that outlasts the deal.
Trains and mentors engineers across security concepts, architecture, and implementation. Built enablement programs adopted globally at Zscaler, designed to outlast any single engagement.
Five years. 272 episodes. A global audience. PEBCAK is an independent InfoSec voice — technically rigorous, published on schedule, and beholden to no vendor's marketing budget.
Winning complex enterprise deals at Zscaler, Citrix, and IronKey
Architectural reviews, proofs of concept, and competitive displacements
Unsponsored, unfiltered InfoSec news every Monday since 2021
ISC2 · ZDTA · ZCCA — credentialed across security and cloud architecture
A decade in pre-sales across cybersecurity, endpoint protection, and cloud infrastructure has produced a rare thing: someone equally at home in a boardroom and a proof-of-concept lab. Rigorous technical knowledge, plus the kind of trust that shortens deal cycles and creates advocates who stay.
Advising enterprise customers on Zero Trust and AI-driven security optimization. Runs architectural maturity assessments, builds adoption playbooks, and partners across engineering and business teams to drive outcomes at scale.
Global SE of the Year. President's Club FY21 at 478% of quota. Led Fortune 100 proofs of concept, custom demos, whiteboarding sessions, and architectural risk assessments — displacing legacy vendors across network, cloud, and security.
North America pre-sales for encrypted endpoint and data protection. RFI/RFP responses, competitive intelligence, partner enablement, and customer-driven roadmap feedback.
VDI-in-a-Box pre-sales with channel partners. Integration evaluations, knowledge base authorship, and post-sales support for hybrid virtual desktop deployments.
Led global post-sales support for encrypted endpoint solutions. Primary escalation for critical customer issues — root-cause analysis, workarounds, and product roadmap input.
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. Weekly information security news for people who actually work in the field — no vendor spin, no filler. Guest interviews, gadget reviews, career advice, and the reliably terrible Dad Joke of the Week. Every Monday since 2021.
Available for conferences, corporate events, podcasts, and panels. Practitioner-level expertise with the same energy as the show — rigorous, opinionated, never dry.
Past the buzzword: how enterprises actually implement Zero Trust without ripping out their infrastructure. Practical, opinionated, and grounded in real Fortune 100 deployments.
How today's attackers operate — ransomware-as-a-service, supply chain compromise, nation-state tactics, and social engineering at scale. Built for practitioners, not for executives looking to be reassured.
Technical interview prep, positioning yourself in a crowded market, and building real credibility as a practitioner. A recurring PEBCAK topic with the strongest listener response of anything on the show.
Balancing risk, usability, and compliance across complex organizations — building security that works with the business instead of around it.
What secure access service edge is, what it isn't, and how organizations should evolve their posture now that workloads have permanently left the perimeter.
Reach out on LinkedIn or through the PEBCAK community. No gatekeepers, no agents — the reply comes from Chris.
The best security people understand systems, but they understand people first. Coaching and volunteering aren't side activities — they're the same commitment to showing up, pointed somewhere else.
Coaches his kids' teams — the same preparation, trust-building, and strategy from the enterprise world, applied to the diamond.
Youth soccer, developed the right way: fundamentals first, confidence always, fun never optional.
Active at his kids' school. Strong communities start with parents who show up, not just parents who donate.
Competitive long-distance runner ranked in the top half-percent nationally. The endurance that defines the career, measured in miles.
Looking for a speaker, a podcast guest, a pre-sales advisor, or just want to argue about last week's breach? LinkedIn and the PEBCAK community are the front door. No middlemen.
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