I'm Chris Banta — an Identity & Access Management and PAM leader who makes security programs mature, measurable, and understandable. Off the clock I'm a hands-on builder: AI-built software, aerial mapping ventures, beekeeping tech, and a stubborn belief that communities work better when people show up.
My day job is identity security: Privileged Access Management, cybersecurity program development, and security maturity improvement. I'm hands-on with the tooling — CyberArk, Delinea Secret Server, SailPoint, Active Directory, ServiceNow — and with the unglamorous work that actually reduces risk: privileged account remediation, service account governance, access workflows, and control frameworks that people can follow without a decoder ring.
Outside work, I build. AI-assisted apps for beekeepers and caregivers, drone and aerial-mapping concepts, security assessment tools for businesses of every size. I like taking something messy or manual and turning it into something that works.
I'm a Colorado guy with Northern Plains roots — Montana and the Dakotas run in the family. I'm happiest outdoors or halfway through a project that started as "just a quick idea."
Most security programs don't fail from lack of tools — they fail from unclear ownership, unmanaged privileged accounts, and processes nobody can explain. That's the mess I like to clean up.
I build with AI the way a shop guy uses power tools — I still own the design, the architecture, and the security review, but I ship a lot faster. Everything below is real work, from database schema to app-store submission.
Drone operations and aerial intelligence: event surveillance, aerial mapping, and operational awareness for organizations that need eyes in the sky without the overhead.
Assessment tooling and advisory for small, medium, and large businesses — figure out where your security program actually stands, and what to fix first.
From hive yards to honey branding — building the tech and the brand side of modern beekeeping, anchored by the ApisTrack platform below.
A full beekeeping operations platform: manage yards, track queen lineage by supplier and breed, coordinate crews, and log activity across seasons. Web app plus Android companion.
An arcade game set at the Washington Monument's reflecting pool — complete with a production website, OTP sign-in, leaderboards, and store-ready privacy & support pages.
A wellness app for building better posture habits, with magic-link authentication, a Supabase backend, and custom transactional email delivery.
A caregiver coordination app for medication tracking — realtime sync across family members, push & SMS notification windows, and accessibility-first design.
A React Native experiment in granular audio synthesis: a physically-modeled rattle engine that layers noise washes, transients, and container resonance to sound like the real thing.
Where the day job meets the night job: CyberArk migration utilities, Active Directory account-creation tooling, and PAM workflow automation — built faster with AI.
I believe neighborhoods run better on transparency than on tenure. In my own community I've pushed for open meetings, clear communication, honest covenant interpretation, accountable property maintenance, and residents having a real voice in decisions that affect them.
I build with AI, so it's only fair AI helps you say hello. Pick a topic, tell it who you are, and it'll draft your LinkedIn intro — then send it via the real thing.