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

Chief Executive Officer

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

Chief Technical Officer

Larry has served as the CFO of numerous early-stage companies in several software and technology services industries. During his 30 year career, Larry has held a variety of progressively responsible financial management roles in private equity-backed companies, public companies, and directly with private equity investors.

Larry Sledge

Chief Financial Officer

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

Jason Tyler

Vice President of 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

With over six years of experience in the information security industry, Lea brings a demonstrated history of high performance across varied functions and lines of business.

Lea Lewandowski

Senior Manager

Jorge began his infosec career at Immunity Inc. as an administrator growing into a project manager. He is a Senior Manager at Anvil, focusing on project and account management.

Jorge Sanchez

Senior Manager

Kourtney is a Senior Project Manager at Anvil. She brings seven years of security experience and energetic customer service to her role, as well as an impeccable repertoire of gifs for every occasion.

Kourtney Harbin

Senior Project Manager

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

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

NANOPB-DECOMPILER

Our nanopb-decompiler is an IDA python script that can recreate .proto files from binaries compiled with 0.3.x, and 0.4.x versions of nanopb. 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

Anvil Ranks 303 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List

With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 1880% Percent, Anvil Secure Receives Ranking No. 303 Among America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

Download

Executive Team

Chris Elbring

Vincent Berg

Larry Sledge

Jason Tyler

Services Management Team

Jerel Culliss

Lea Lewandowski

Jorge Sanchez

Kourtney Harbin

Technical Leadership Team

Daniel Kachakil

James Thomas

Michael Milvich

Our Core Values

BE EXPERTS

CULTIVATE AND CONTRIBUTE

ADAPT AND GROW

KEEP IT REAL

Tools

AWSTRACER

AWSSIG

DAWGMON

NANOPB-DECOMPILER

ULEXECVE

Our Core Values

Be Experts

Cultivate and Contribute

Adapt and Grow

Keep It Real

Whitepapers

Defeating Secure Boot Protections With Symlink and Hard Link Attacks

Press Releases

Anvil Ranks 303 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List

“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.”

Of the Top 10 US Tech Companies are Anvil Clients

Countries Where We Operate

Percent Three-Year Revenue Growth

Rank Among Security Companies on the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing US Companies