Sessions
Group B - Roundtable
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Wed
A former Facebook investigator, Christopher Salgado is a highly accomplished and trusted security and investigations leader with more than 20 years in cyber and physical investigations as well as security. Throughout his career, he has effectively assisted several Fortune 100 companies – including a Fortune 20 company – via the installation of numerous innovative and efficient processes in the topics of investigations, security, brand protection, threat management, business continuity, intelligence, operations, recruiting, customer service, employee morale and leadership. The companies that have benefitted from his services span the spectrum of industries: social media, pharmaceutical, luxury brands (clothing, jewelry, etc.), consumables, automotive, electronics, film production, streaming services, entertainment, insurance and more. He has also assisted investigations firms and law firms across the globe.
From 2016 through 2019, Christopher Salgado worked at Facebook as an investigator. He assisted in managing investigations and operations and was instrumental in building their global investigations division. His efforts included drafting a large majority of investigative standard operating procedures (SOPs), refining current ones, installing new security operations and helping to stand up a new global, 24/7/365 Investigations Center. He also aided in managing several other security and investigative-themed projects, including prototype security, supply chain security, business continuity, video analytics, global security camera systems, operational security, process efficiency, data center threats and general threat management, among others.
Salgado also assisted Facebook’s numerous security operations centers across the globe with varied threats. His achievements allowed him to aid those teams in expanding Facebook’s security and investigations book of business interdepartmentally and geographically. During the time when Christopher Salgado was at Facebook, news about Cambridge Analytica broke as did the allegations of Russians hacking the Facebook platform to intervene in 2016’s US elections. Christopher Salgado was able to support in those sensitive and highly visible incidents as well.