Introducing Anvil Ventures: An Information Security Consulting Partnership

By Chris Elbring
Introducing Anvil Ventures: An Information Security Consulting Partnership

By Chris Elbring

Today we are excited to announce the formation of Anvil Ventures, LLC (โ€œAnvilโ€). Anvil is a new information security consultancy formed by industry veteran Chris Elbring. Anvil offers elite information security consulting services to solve the complicated problems facing the industry currently and in the future as the threat landscape continues to evolve.

Anvil has a wide network of highly regarded information security professionals ready to solve the technically challenging issues facing development, engineering, devops, information security and IT teams within any type of organization.

Anvil was founded on three simple principles: do technically challenging work by solving problems that most people cannot, make the world a safer place, and do it ethically. Managing Partner, Chris Elbring, has a diverse background. He has worked as the CEO and the CTO of a startup security software development firm, the President of a boutique, regional security consulting firm, an independent technology and security consultant, an interim CIO, Director of Software Development of a mobile biometrics firm. Most recently he was the Senior Vice President of Research and Delivery at IOActive, Inc., an elite leading information security consulting firm. His passion is solving problems faced by the technical teams who are building the world changing products of tomorrow.

Elbring serves as the Managing Partner of Anvil. Anvil Ventures is based in Seattle, WA.

About the Author

Chris Elbring is Managing Partner and CEO of Anvil Secure. Prior to founding Anvil, Elbring worked as CEO and CTO of a startup security software development firm, President of a boutique, regional security consulting firm, an independent technology and security consultant, Director of Software Development of a mobile, biometric firm and most recently as Senior Vice President of Research and Delivery at IOActive, Inc.

Tools

awstracer - An Anvil CLI utility that will allow you to trace and replay AWS commands.


awssig - Anvil Secure's Burp extension for signing AWS requests with SigV4.


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


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


ulexecve - A tool to execute ELF binaries on Linux directly from userland. See the introductory blogpost


usb-racer - A tool for pentesting TOCTOU issues with USB storage devices.

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