About Anvil

Chris founded Anvil with the goal of building the best workplace possible. An industry veteran with roots in developing information security software and hardware products, Chris has spent the last decade assembling and managing security consulting teams comprised of the world’s top technical talent.

Chris Elbring

Managing Partner

Kim has over 20 years of experience in security and technology. She spent time designing infrastructure for ISPs and high traffic web applications before pivoting into security permanently. Kim specializes in helping small businesses formalize and mature their processes and procedures to ensure success during rapid growth.

Kim Bauer

Partner

Vincent’s strong technical background combined with his many years of consulting experience have contributed to the foundational belief that technical excellence and professionalism should be at the core of everything we do at Anvil. As CTO, he guides research and technical content, while maintaining a customer-focused approach.

Vincent Berg

Partner

Daniel leads the Anvil application and cloud security groups. He has been a speaker at numerous security conferences and has led many workshops and training courses.

Daniel Kachakil

Principal Security Engineer

As Anvil’s first hire, James has been a critical member of the team. In addition to his contributions to Anvil’s growth, he is a leader of the embedded security team.

James Thomas

Principal Security Engineer

Jason has over 15 years of experience supporting people-centric organizations and is dedicated to helping team members maximize their potential.

Jason Tyler

VP, Operations

Jerel has a wealth of hands-on ICS and embedded security experience. He excels at managing people while addressing highly technical challenges.

Jerel Culliss

Director of Services

Marcela has extensive project management experience in the technology, energy, and security sectors. Her mission is to optimize Anvil’s internal processes for strategic growth.

Marcela Stacey

Director of Services

Michael is the driving force behind Anvil’s embedded security lab. His expertise is sought out by many of the world’s leading technology companies.

Michael Milvich

Fellow

DAWGMON

Dawg the hallway monitor: monitor operating system changes and analyze introduced attack surface when installing software. See the introductory blogpost

Link to tool

Defeating Secure Boot Protections With Symlink and Hard Link Attacks

The white paper demonstrates the use of file systems features of a non-verified partition such as symbolic links (symlinks) to defeat secure boot protection.

Download

Our Partners

Chris Elbring

Kim Bauer

Vincent Berg

Our Leadership Team

Daniel Kachakil

James Thomas

Jason Tyler

Jerel Culliss

Marcela Stacey

Michael Milvich

Tools

AWSTRACER

AWSSIG

DAWGMON

Whitepapers

Defeating Secure Boot Protections With Symlink and Hard Link Attacks

“I’m enjoying helping build a firm my younger self would have loved to be a part of. It’s great to see the amount of support given by coworkers, no matter the challenge; everyone has each other’s back.”

Who We Are

Countries where we operate

Languages spoken

Our average annual growth rate

Security conferences presented at