Author: Chris Pogue

Chris PogueChris Pogue is the Director of Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) for CyberCX in the Americas and is a member of the global DFIR leadership team.

Over his 25-year career, Chris has led multiple professional security and services organizations to investigate data breaches, secure corporate computing assets and critical value data, implement wide-scale compliance regimes, and help executives and boards of directors both qualify and quantify security risks.

His extensive experience is drawn from careers as a cybercrime’s investigator, ethical hacker, military officer, law enforcement and military instructor, university professor, business executive, and board advisor.

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From the Spring 2025 Issue

The More Things Stay the Same: The Resurgence of Classic Cyberattack Vectors

Author(s):

Chris Pogue, Director, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, CyberCX

Cyber Attack Vectors

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, it’s easy to become fixated on emerging threats, often overlooking legacy vulnerabilities that persist within our systems.  Recent trends indicate a notable resurgence of classic attack vectors, such as SQL injections, buffer overflows, and web shells—techniques that many assumed had been relegated to the annals of cyber history. This … Read more

From the Winter 2024 Issue

Cyber McCarthyism – The Third Red Scare

Author(s):

Chris Pogue, Director, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, CyberCX

Cyber McCarthyism

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, refers to the political repression and persecution of various politicians, government employees and military personnel, in an attempt to spread the fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.  After the mid-1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had … Read more

From the Fall 2023 Issue

Cyber Culture: The Missing Link

Author(s):

Chris Pogue, Director, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, CyberCX

Cyber Culture: The Missing Link

As I started to write this article, I sat in my office and stared at my monitor, thinking about where to begin.  There is so much going through my mind that it’s hard to calm my thoughts down enough to be able to communicate the torrent of ideas that seem to exist just out of … Read more