Christopher Gerg - CEO and Principal Consultant
Christopher Gerg is the founder of Busy Robot. He is a technical lead with over 20 years of information security experience. Christopher has worked as a Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, Penetration Tester, Information Security Architect, Vice President of Information Technology, Director and Chief Information Security Officer. He has experience in the challenges of information security in cloud-based hosting, DevOps, managed security services, e-commerce, healthcare, financial, and payment card industries. He has worked in mature information security teams and has built information security programs from scratch and leading them into maturity in wide variety of compliance regimes. While an expert in the theoretical aspects of information security best practice, he is also experienced in the practical aspects of building secure technical environments – and working with the boardroom to promote executive understanding and support. He also authored the O’Reilly and Associates book “Managing Network Security with Snort and IDS Tools".
Christopher is a strong believer in the concept that you can be secure by design and compliant by default - all while managing your resources and actually enabling the business to do their jobs more efficiently and reliably. He lives his life (personal and professional) with integrity, honestly, and kindness and believes that relationships are key to effectiveness and delivering on the often challenging work for an Information Security professional.