Chris is currently an Assistant Professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. His professional experience, research interest, and teaching revolve around cybersecurity, specifically risk management, organizational impacts of breaches, and behaviors of both users and malicious actors.
For the past three years, Chris has been a member of the SIM IT Trends Study Research Team and has helped to increase the scope of the study to include a greater focus on cybersecurity-related issues and practices. Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Virginia in 2017, Chris was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tampa, where he helped to create a cybersecurity degree program and set up a state of the art lab for students to gain hands-on experience with various cybersecurity tools.
Prior to entering academia, Chris was the Director of Security and Controls for TRX, Inc. (now a subsidiary of SAP) where he was in charge of managing all cybersecurity, compliance, BCP/DR, and internal audit functions globally. He also previously worked as an IT auditor for KPMG.
Sessions
Cyber Trends 2016 - 2019