Christopher C. Elisan

Christopher C. Elisan is a veteran of the security industry having started his career straight out of college. He is a seasoned reverse engineer, malware researcher, incident responder and threat hunter. He has seen malware develop from the DOS days to the more complicated and sophisticated malware we see today. He is currently the Principal Malware Scientist and Senior Manager of the Malware Intelligence Team at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Elisan is a pioneer of Trend Micro’s TrendLabs. This is where he started his career as a malware reverse engineer. From which, he held multiple technical and managerial positions. After leaving Trend Micro, Elisan joined F-Secure. He built and established F-Secure’s Asia R&D and spearheaded multiple projects that includes vulnerability discovery, web security, and mobile security. He then joined Damballa, Inc. as a senior threat analyst specializing in malware research. Elisan graduated with a degree in Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering and holds the following industry certifications: Certified Ethical Hacker, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, Microsoft Certified Professional, and Certified Scrum Master. Elisan is considered one of the world’s subject matter experts when it comes to malware, digital fraud and cybercrime. He lends his expertise to different law enforcement agencies and he provides expert opinion about malware, botnet and advance persistent threats for leading industry and mainstream publications, including USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, SC Magazine, InformationWeek, Fox Business and Dark Reading. He is also a frequent speaker at various security conferences around the globe, including RSA Conference, SecTor, HackerHalted, TakeDownCon, Toorcon, International Information Systems Security Consortium (ISC)2, Rootcon, and B-Sides. You can follow him at Twitter: @Tophs.