Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy is a principal security research engineer in Cisco's Advanced Security Initiatives Group (ASIG), an independent group within Cisco not part of any business entity, that evaluates products and services to identify security vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and improvements that result in more resilient and hardened offers used by our global customers. He has over 30 years of experience in the networking and security industry and is passionate about computer security, finding flaws in mission-critical systems, and designing mitigations to thwart motivated and resourceful adversaries. He was formerly with Spirent Communications and the United States Air Force. Chris is CCIE certified in the Routing and Switching and Service Provider tracks (#11801-Emeritus). You can follow Chris on X/Twitter @chris_mccoy.