Christopher Coffin
Information Assurance
Katy, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Coffin is an information assurance professional with 12+ years of deep experience building security and compliance software, currently contributing at MITRE. He pioneered regulatory compliance content and automation for major products at Symantec and BindView, translating complex standards (PCI, NIST, ISO, HIPAA, CIS, etc.) into executable benchmarks and validated SCAP implementations. Known as the go-to engineer for high‑impact projects, he blends hands-on scripting (Perl, XSLT), system administration, and vulnerability research to deliver auditable, production-ready controls. His background spans technical writing, QA, training, and incident discovery—he even co-presented at Black Hat and helped shepherd CIS benchmark certifications. Based in Katy, Texas, he combines a practical troubleshooting mindset from early technician roles with a proven track record of turning regulatory nuance into usable security tooling.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Johnson County Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
cve10
vulnerability9
json9
security9
sca9
vulnerabilities8
editing8
security-vulnerability7
pentesting7
saf7
html6
internet-explorer6
scrollto6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ccoffin/cve-schema
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
This repository is used for the development of the CVE JSON record format. Releases of the CVE JSON record format will also be published here. This repository is managed by the CVE Quality Working Group.
Contributions:61 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 1 month
CWE-CAPEC/UEWG
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 7 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
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