About Anvil - Anvil Secure

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 and years of consulting experience drive his 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 client-focused approach.

Vincent Berg

Chief Technical Officer

Dana is a seasoned leader in the infosec industry with a track record of driving growth and cultivating strong client relationships. Dana has a genuine passion for developing individuals and teams; she prioritizes fostering a values-driven culture while ensuring effective, sustainable processes for growth.

Dana Hehl

Vice President of Services Delivery

Venkat is a 23-year veteran in the Cybersecurity Industry serving in various capacities over that time period, including sales, delivery and operations. His passion is for services consulting where he can foster relationships and help solve client pain points while working alongside talented delivery personnel.

Venkat Rangarajan

Vice President of Sales

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

Larry has served as the CFO of numerous early-stage software and technology services companies. 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

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

Alberto has more than a decade of experience in security engineering and penetration testing. Having served in multiple technical management and leadership roles, he excels at fostering team culture and mentoring engineers.

Alberto Volpatto

Technical Director

Blair has 8 years of cyber security experience, working with a variety of clients, from Fortune 500s to dentist offices and most things in-between. He focuses on creating the right solution for each client to increase their security in a way that enhances business outcomes.

Blair Crossman

Technical Director

After over a decade of experience as an information security consultant, Brian discovered a passion for shaping processes and leading people. His robust background in cybersecurity has evolved into a strategic role, contributing to fostering Anvil's growth.

Brian Sutton

Technical Director

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 Engineering

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

Tao loves finding vulnerabilities in anything he gets his hands on, especially when it involves embedded systems, reverse engineering and code review.

Tao Sauvage

Principal Security Engineer

Brian has worked in information security for over a decade, primarily as a penetration tester and security engineer. He enjoys finding creative solutions to problems using code and creating tools to help in day-to-day tasks.

Brian Bauer

Principal Security Engineer

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

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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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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.

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Executive Team

Chris Elbring

Vincent Berg

Dana Hehl

Venkat Rangarajan

Jason Tyler

Larry Sledge

Services Management Team

Lea Lewandowski

Jorge Sanchez

Kourtney Harbin

Alberto Volpatto

Blair Crossman

Brian Sutton

Technical Leadership Team

Jerel Culliss

Daniel Kachakil

James Thomas

Michael Milvich

Tao Sauvage

Brian Bauer

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