Christopher R. Harrell
About Christopher R. Harrell
Christopher R. Harrell is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories with extensive experience in cybersecurity and network administration.
Company
Christopher R. Harrell is currently working at Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer. He has been with the organization since 2018. Additionally, he holds a position at GIAC as a GIAC Advisory Board Member, a role he has maintained since 2016.
Title
Christopher R. Harrell holds the title of Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. He also holds a significant role as a GIAC Advisory Board Member.
Education and Expertise
Christopher R. Harrell earned a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona from 2017 to 2019. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Network Administration from the University of Arizona, obtained between 2015 and 2016. His academic background began at Pima Community College, where he achieved an Associate of Science in Systems Administration/Networking Administrator from 2013 to 2015.
Background
Christopher R. Harrell has extensive experience in the field of cybersecurity. His career includes notable positions as a Cybersecurity Administrator at Areté Associates from 2014 to 2017 and as a Communication Technician III at Comcast Cable from 2009 to 2012. He also served as a CyberCorps Scholarship for Service Fellow at the University of Arizona from 2017 to 2019.
Achievements
Christopher R. Harrell has contributed significantly to cybersecurity through various initiatives. He automated novel detections, enhancing the accuracy of cybersecurity alerts. He designed proof-of-concept solutions for CVEs and presented findings that led to widespread adoption of improved security measures. Harrell also developed dynamic and static analysis techniques to discover digital artifacts and upgraded network capabilities to 100G. Additionally, he mentored interns in developing research proposals and led efforts to improve the efficiency of Intrusion Detection System sensors. His security assessments and resilience testing of storage cluster file systems produced actionable results and led to the discovery of a new CVE.