Christopher Henry

Securing modern systems with practical risk reduction in an AI augmentented landscape.

I’m Christopher Henry, an IT security professional focused on vulnerability management, threat intelligence, web application security, and security operations in critical infrastructure environments. I build repeatable security workflows, improve remediation velocity, and help teams ship technology with stronger controls from the start.

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Experience

Enterprise security work grounded in operations.

The focus of my recent work has been reducing exposure, validating real risk, and helping teams move from findings to remediation across product, vendor, and infrastructure decisions.

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst — Vulnerability Management

Tennessee Valley Authority · Chattanooga, TN

Sep 2021 — Present

  • Improves the vulnerability program, reducing exposure risk through threat intelligence analysis and coordinated remediation using CVSS, Tenable VPR, and SSVC.
  • Leads triage of HackerOne submissions, validated exploits in production-sandbox environments, and ensured secure remediation before production deployment..
  • Collaborates with the threat team and integrated AI-assisted workflows into offensive operations to support tooling development, phishing pretext generation, and OSINT enrichment.
  • Integrates Tenable into ServiceNow workflows to accelerate remediation and patching actions across business units--managed agents and increased credentialed scanning
  • Perform's web application and network penetration tests using Acunetix, Burp Suite, and related tools to uncover critical vulnerabilities and commnicated remediation steps to affected owners.
  • Migrates the Vunlerabilty Disclosure Program from HackerOne to Bugcrowd, improving program efficiency and reducing platform costs.

IT Support Analyst

Honda Motor Company · Lincoln, AL

Oct 2020 — Sep 2021

  • Supported more than 2,500 end users across desktop, remote access, and virtual machine environments.
  • Handled identity and access related requests in Active Directory and supported RSA and Cisco remote access configuration.
  • Used ServiceNow workflows for ticket triage, routing, and issue documentation across local and regional support queues.
  • Deployed software manually and through SCCM while supporting Windows, Office, printers, laptops, and virtual machines.
  • Tore down machine's and replaced faulty components as needed.
Capabilities

Where I add the most value.

I work best where technical depth, process discipline, and communication all need to meet in the same place.

Security domains

Vulnerability Management Threat Intelligence Application Security Penetration Testing OSINT Adversary Simulation SIEM Validation Security Operations

Tooling & systems

Tenable Acunetix ServiceNow Burp Suite Metasploit CrowdStrike Bugcrowd HackerOne Linux Windows PowerBI Active Directory

Operating style

  • Translate regulatory and technical requirements into practical guidance teams can execute.
  • Build playbooks, standards, and repeatable assessment workflows.
  • Communicate clearly with engineers, analysts, and executive stakeholders.

Selected project

NASA’s Davidson Center Space Camp cyber CTF, Developed an attacker and defender Raspberry Pi 4 images that would be used in the engagement. This project centered around command line tools, focusing on enumeration with nmap and obfuscation with steganography/encoding techniques.

Credentials

Certifications, education, and trust markers.

A foundation built through hands-on security work, formal education in cybersecurity, and certifications that map to defensive, operational, and assessment disciplines.

CISSPISC2 · May 2024
SecurityX (CASP+)July 2024
CySA+February 2022
SSCPISC2 · January 2022
RVA Operator CertifiedMarch 2022
PenTest+March 2022

Education

  • B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Western Governors University, GPA 3.5, Aug 2020 — Mar 2022.
  • NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense designation through WGU.
  • A.S. in Computer Science, Southern Union State Community College, Aug 2017 — May 2019.

Clearance & availability

  • U.S. Citizen.
  • NERC-CIP clearance active since September 2020.
  • TVA clearance for sensitive information active since September 2021.
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