Chris Anley
Chief Scientist at DBRG Ltd
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Anley is Chief Scientist at NCC Group and CEO of DBRG, blending deep vulnerability research with entrepreneurial leadership across security product and consultancy businesses. He co-founded NGSSoftware, helped lead NCC Group as Director, and has authored influential security books including The Shellcoder's Handbook and The Database Hacker's Handbook, underscoring rare domain authority in exploit development and database defense. His background spans software development, data and AI, and hands-on consulting since the mid-1990s, giving him a practitioner’s perspective on converting research into practical protections. Based in England, he pairs scholarly output with applied engineering—often surfacing subtle protocol and database attack vectors that inform industry practice.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
King's College London
Github Skills (9)
sarif8
scanner7
source-code-analysis6
code-security6
semgrep6
security5
code-analysis4
static-analysis4
security-scanner4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chris-anley/grep_all
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
chris-anley/cq
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
CQ, a code security scanner
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
scannersarifsecurity-toolssecuritysemgrep
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