Chris Horsley is the CTO and one of the co-founders of Cosive, a cybersecurity and CTI specialist consultancy based in Australia and New Zealand. He has worked on projects with financial institutions, government, resource companies, and the university sector with a particular focus on SOCs, IR, and CTI practices and tooling. He is also highly involved in Cosive’s tooling and service offerings such as its managed MISP service and threat intelligence platform integrations. He also enjoys experimenting with CTI data formats like STIX and MISP and how to visualise and represent CTI concepts better.
He also has a long background in the international CSIRT community, which spanned roles including open source intelligence gathering, vulnerability disclosure handling, software and tooling development, malware analysis, and joint initiatives for national CSIRTs. Chris has previously worked as a security analyst for AusCERT, the national CSIRT at that time, and JPCERT/CC, the Japanese national CSIRT.