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

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

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

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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.

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Our Partners

Chris Elbring

Vincent Berg

Our Leadership Team

Daniel Kachakil

James Thomas

Jason Tyler

Jerel Culliss

Michael Milvich

Our Core Values

BE EXPERTS

CULTIVATE AND CONTRIBUTE

ADAPT AND GROW

KEEP IT REAL

Tools

AWSTRACER

AWSSIG

DAWGMON

NANOPB-DECOMPILER

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

“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.”

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