Chris Mcnab
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris McNab is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and author based in San Francisco, best known for writing Network Security Assessment and founding AlphaSOC, a security analytics firm operating in the US and UK. With nine years of hands-on experience, he combines incident response, threat hunting, and vulnerability assessment to help organizations remediate complex security gaps. He has presented at major industry forums including FIRST, OWASP, InfoSecurity Europe, and the Cloud Security Alliance Congress, translating research into practical defenses. Notably, he performed forensic response to intrusions by Alexsey Belan and led a USAID-backed effort to secure Guatemala’s judicial IT systems, illustrating both high-stakes operational experience and international collaboration. Chris blends technical authorship with commercial product leadership, bringing a rare mix of field-tested offensive insight and analytics-driven defense.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
security10
network-traffic10
traffic10
suricata9
monitoring9
intrusion-detection9
network9
network-monitoring8
render2
graylog2
alerts2
python1
blocking1
splunk1
phishing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alphasoc/nfr
May 2017 - Dec 2019
A lightweight tool to score network traffic and flag anomalies
Contributions:15 commits, 43 pushes, 22 comments in 2 years 6 months
network-trafficbro-idssecuritynetwork-monitoringintrusion-detection
alphasoc/flightsim
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
A utility to safely generate malicious network traffic patterns and evaluate controls.
Contributions:8 commits, 9 pushes, 29 comments in 1 year 7 months
evaluatenetwork-trafficsecuritymaliciousintrusion-detection
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