Christopher Van Der Made

Christopher is from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and of both Dutch and American nationality. Christopher received a bachelors in Neuroscience and Computer Science, and a masters in Information Science at the University of Amsterdam. He joined Cisco through the Graduate program in 2015. Since June 2022, he is an Engineering Product Manager in Cisco XDR, with focus on response and automation. Before that, he was a Consulting Systems Engineer for 4 years in the Northern European security team and a Developer Advocate with focus on Security in Cisco DevNet for 2.5 years.  At Cisco, Christopher focusses on the security portfolio, and also on general cybersecurity topics. His main areas of expertise are Cisco XDR, Cisco SecureX, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Threat Hunting, SOC's and DevSecOps. Christopher loves programming and automation. He learned coding in C, but currently his favorite language is Python. He also very much likes to make use of low-to-no-code platforms (e.g. Cisco XDR Automation, Pipedream, Zapier, etc.). He is always working on a new project.