Chris Farrell
Manager Enterprise Vulnerability Management at The Walt Disney Company
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Farrell is a cybersecurity leader with a decade of experience building and running enterprise vulnerability management programs, currently managing a 10-person team at The Walt Disney Company. He blends operational rigor—overseeing global scanning across studios, corporate, and media brands—with strategic initiatives like an AI-driven threat and vulnerability intelligence application and a novel device risk assessment approach. Known for hands-on red team skills, he crafts custom validation scripts for zero-days and led rapid responses to crises such as Log4Shell and PrintNightmare. Chris also drives preparedness through enterprise tabletop exercises and has a background as an instructor and vCISO, bridging technical depth with governance and stakeholder communication. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs military-grade operational discipline from prior USCG service with academic credentials (MS Information Security) to deliver measurable enterprise risk reduction.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology Systems at Fordham UniversityMaster of Science - MS Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Security at Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
English, vacation spanish
Github Skills (200)
firmware10
mosh10
atmel10
screensaver10
exploit10
apple-tv10
lync10
tty10
rp204010
handheld10
render10
cli10
catch-all10
usb10
browserify10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
seajaysec/cypheroth
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Automated, extensible toolset that runs cypher queries against Bloodhound's Neo4j backend and saves output to spreadsheets.
Contributions:84 commits, 9 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 9 months
runsbackendgraph-databaseneo4jgraph
seajaysec/dotfiles
Nov 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:363 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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