AT A GLANCE

Chris Zayas is Associate Managing Director in the Cyber and Data Resilience business, based in Houston. Chris leverages more than 18 years of experience across various IT domains and disciplines, with the last 13 years dedicated to consulting focused on modern workplace enablement, cloud security and zero trust.

Chris is part of the Cyber and Data Resilience Information Risk Management team, which provides proactive services that include, but are not limited to, cybersecurity risk assessments, OT security advisory service, network and application penetration testing, vulnerability testing, social engineering, threat analysis and monitoring, incident response and training for boards of directors, executives and staff.

Prior to joining Kroll, Chris was the Global Practice and Alliance Lead for Zscaler, creating innovative go-to-market solutions and offerings to solve complex and unique use cases across multiple industries. He was also the Delivery Lead for a complex Zscaler deployment to over 5,000 global users, including branch connector and airgap implementation for 50 sites to improve network experience and bandwidth and reduce multi-protocol label switching usage and costs within the enterprise.

Before that, Chris held the title of Operations Lead for the Zero Trust and Infrastructure Security practice within Accenture’s Cyber Security business, where he was responsible for the service development, pre-sales and delivery of cloud and network security projects. He also created numerous Microsoft 365/Modern Workplace offerings and delivered multiple engagements implementing Microsoft Security technologies, enabling E5 consumption or leading Modern Workplace initiatives. Chris also served as the Lead Architect for a mobile device management migration from AirWatch to Intune for over 22,000 devices while enabling self-migration and self-enrollment capabilities, Android for BYOD and HoloLens support and testing for oil and gas operations and HSE use cases.

Chris holds an MBA in business administration and management from Chadron State College and a dual BBA in management information systems and management from Angelo State University.

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