Chris Higgins
Technical Manager at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Higgins is a Technical Manager with 13 years' experience leading red team operations and offensive security engineering across Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), rising from Associate to manager while shaping enterprise adversary simulation programs. He combines deep hands-on exploit development—contributing modules to the widely used Metasploit Framework for real-world FTP and HTTP vulnerabilities—with strategic leadership in threat emulation, incident readiness, and cross-team coordination. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he blends a strong academic foundation (MS in IT, Network and Security Management) with practical experience running SIEM, vulnerability programs, and hybrid cloud/server environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic tradeoffs between risk, detection capability, and operational impact, and he’s equally comfortable diving into exploit code or guiding high-stakes client engagements.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Technology - Network and Security Management, MS Information Technology - Network and Security Management at Illinois State University
Spanish
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Chris focused on identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities within the Metasploit Framework. Their contributions include developing and refining modules to exploit buffer overflows in FTP servers and HTTP applications. They added modules for specific vulnerabilities like PCMAN FTP, Disk Pulse Enterprise, WinaXe, and Dup Scout Enterprise. The user also contributed to the SysGauge module and addressed style issues.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
Chiggins/DotFiles
Aug 2012 - Jan 2023
Contributions:152 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 10 years 6 months
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