Christian "Chris" Schreiber

Chris Schreiber is a cybersecurity strategist with nearly 30 years of experience helping colleges and universities build defensible information security programs. He is the founder of CampusCISO, a higher education advisory practice he has run as a solopreneur since 2021. Chris also created the Cyber Heat Map capability assessment model, which began as a simple spreadsheet before growing into an online assessment and planning tool.

He learned to navigate the friction of decentralized IT governance by living it. Before launching his own practice, Chris served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the University of Chicago, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He also translated institutional needs into product realities inside vendor organizations, including FireEye/Mandiant (now parts of Trellix and Google Cloud) and SunGard Higher Education (now Ellucian). Today he continues to guide the sector through advisory engagements with higher education technology leaders.

In his writing, Chris translates complex technical concepts into plain-spoken strategies. He writes about cybersecurity governance, IT policy, and pragmatic approaches to cyber resilience that help teams prioritize the improvements that matter most. A regular speaker at higher education conferences, Chris holds a Master's Certificate in Project Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Business Administration from Central Michigan University.