Christopher Gerg

Christopher Gerg is the CISO and Vice President of Cyber Risk Management at Tetra Defense. He's a technical lead with over 15 years of information security experience, dealing with 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, leading them into maturity in a wide variety of compliance regimes.

How Hackers are Exploiting COVID-19

Christopher Gerg

May 18, 2020

Cybercriminals hope to go unnoticed. They often work in the dark depths of the Internet, but now, they are showing their true colors in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Explained: Firewalls, Vulnerability Scans and Penetration Tests

Christopher Gerg

November 12, 2019

The implementation of a secured perimeter and internal firewall network architecture and conducting Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests (VAPT) are often seen as enough to protect critical business information and guard against unexpected cybersecurity threats. However, as we will discover and despite this approach being a good start, there is substantially more to information security than firewalls and VAPT.

How to Increase Collaboration Between IT and Executive Leadership Teams

Christopher Gerg

November 7, 2019

For enterprises to implement cloud technology successfully, the C-Suite and IT teams need to work closely to coordinate and deliver a wide range of as-a-service technical offerings. How can enterprises increase the relationship between the board and tech teams and help to develop a prosperous, collaborative partnership?

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Christopher Gerg

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How Hackers are Exploiting COVID-19

Explained: Firewalls, Vulnerability Scans and Penetration Tests

How to Increase Collaboration Between IT and Executive Leadership Teams

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