Atredis Partners
Chris Ballentine is a Principal Research Consultant at Atredis Partners since April 2024, with extensive experience in security engineering and consulting. Prior roles include Senior Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services from May 2020 to December 2023, and Technical Director at Optiv Inc from February 2015 to March 2020, focusing on threat and vulnerability management. Previous positions also include roles in security assessments and IT administration at FishNet Security, Protiviti, and Texas A&M University, where Chris specialized in various aspects of information security and system administration. Chris holds a Bachelor’s Degree with dual majors in Management Information Systems and Supply Chain Management from Texas A&M University, completed in 2011.
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Atredis Partners
With offices all around the United States and Canada, Atredis Partners was created by a number of security industry veterans who wanted to prioritize offering quality and client needs over the pressure to grow rapidly at the expense of delivery and execution. We wanted to build something better, for the long haul. Atredis Partners team members have written five books on information security topics, and have presented our research over fifty times at the BlackHat Briefings conference in Europe, Japan, and the United States, as well as other notable security conferences, delivering groundbreaking research and training on web, network, software, mobile and embedded exploitation. We deliver the same class of confidential security research and penetration testing for our clients, focusing on everything from low level embedded assessments to complex mobile platforms and complex application stacks. In 2015, we expanded our offerings to also include an advanced Risk and Advisory practice. Our risk practice works alongside our researchers and penetration testers, helping CISOs and CIOs turn complex technical threats and vulnerabilities into actionable plans to transform our clients’ security, both technically and culturally.