Chris Riley
Security Advisor at FIRST
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Riley is a Security Advisor based in Zurich with 13 years in security roles and over 25 years in IT, blending hands-on infrastructure and senior security engineering experience. He spent a decade as a Staff Security Engineer at Google focusing on third-party security at scale and co-created the Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) framework to make security practical for product teams. Prior to Google he led penetration testing and security teams in finance and enterprise environments, and began his career supporting servers and networks across London and Munich. He is a long-term co-host of the FIRST IMPRESSIONS podcast, demonstrating a commitment to community education and industry dialogue. Comfortable moving between technical depth and advisory strategy, he brings a pragmatic, product-oriented view of risk that emphasizes deployable controls over theoretical models. An early career background in training and support underpins his knack for translating complex security concepts into operational guidance.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft, Microsoft at Microsoft CertificationSANS Institute, SANS Institute at SANS Technology InstituteCompTIA, EC-Council, Novell, CompTIA, EC-Council, Novell at Other Industry CertificationBTEC HND, Computer Sciences, BTEC HND, Computer Sciences at SEECAT (South East Essex College of Arts and Technology)
English, German
Github Skills (12)
attestation10
poc10
minimum10
risk-assessment9
exploit9
enumerator9
tax9
compliance8
methodology8
security8
cve8
lists1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisJohnRiley/Random_Code
Dec 2012 - Nov 2013
Random Code, POC Scripts and other things (Your Mileage May Vary)
Contributions:18 commits, 2 comments in 11 months
cvemethodologymileagepocexploit
ChrisJohnRiley/Scythe
Sep 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:53 commits in 1 month
enumeratorsecurityscytheaccount
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