Chris Dale
Chief Hacking Officer at SANS Institute
Greater Bergen Region Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Dale is a seasoned offensive security leader and co-founder serving as Chief Hacking Officer at River Security with nine years of focused experience in penetration testing, attack surface management, and building an Offensive Security Operations Center. He combines hands-on red team work and active hunting with operational leadership—previously serving as COO and Principal Consultant—while also teaching as a Principal Instructor for the SANS Institute. Chris has led pen test and incident response teams across digital and physical domains, and brings practical systems and software experience from earlier roles in application engineering and development. Based in the Greater Bergen Region of Norway, he pairs a pragmatic, process-driven approach to high-quality security services with a habit of diving into technical details himself, from reverse engineering to social-engineering engagements.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation Computer Electronics, Graduation Computer Electronics at Askøy Videregående SkoleNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (62)
fingerprint10
linkedin-api10
security10
vulnerability-detection10
source-code-analysis10
infosec9
encoding9
vulnerabilities9
compression8
locked8
linkedin8
active-directory8
password-generator8
active8
passwords8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisAD/ps-weak-pass-reset
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Password reset for Active Directory. Will reset weak passwords
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years
passwordspassword-generatorpassword-managerpassworddirectory
ChrisAD/ads-payload
Mar 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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