Chris Lucas

Chris Lucas

Area Vice President, Marketing

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Chris Lucas

Area Vice President, Marketing

LinkedIn

Chris leads the Public Relations and Communications team and manages the global PR firms. He also leads the Global Events team to ensure the customer experience and NETSCOUT meets their business objectives at large scale industry and customer events. Chris is seasoned strategic leader laser focused on smart planning and smooth execution with diverse marketing, sales, legal, and sales enablement experience spanning decades.

Chris started his career in sales, practiced law for several years as a litigation associate and trial attorney and returned to high-tech to focus on business. He has excelled at a variety of roles throughout his career including: sales programs, sales positioning, messaging, solutions marketing, industry marketing, field marketing, customer references, business operations, enterprise marketing, sales enablement, communications, and global events.

Chris earned his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross, his Masters in Business Administration from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. He is a former Chairman Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/Metrowest, Inc. and spends time in the summer and fall umpiring baseball for high school athletes with sights set on playing college baseball.

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Schools Need to be Ready and Protected for Digital SAT

The stress of taking the SAT used to fall squarely on the heads and psyche of high school juniors and seniors, with their parents or guardians manufacturing their own separate...

  • DDoS
  • Enterprise
  • Security
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Those Sneaky Adaptive DDoS Attacks!

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines “sneaky” as “marked by stealth, furtiveness, or shiftiness.” “Stealth” is defined as “intended not to attract attention.” “Furtive” is defined...

  • DDoS
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Parachutes, Brakes, and Adaptive DDoS Defenses Must Work Well When Needed

When do you settle for less than 100 percent reliability when it comes to products or solutions? Answer: When the risk of the failure is not fatal, catastrophic, or extremely...

  • DDoS
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The Old Ways Are Not Good Enough Against Modern DDoS Attacks

The medieval castle became the fortification of choice in the Middle Ages, and attack strategies evolved into scaling ladders, battering rams, siege towers, catapults, and mining...

  • DDoS
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Do More with More in the Multi-Cloud World

You’ve probably heard the “do more with less” edict more often than you wanted to in your profession. But what about the “do more with more” directive? It’s a much less popular...

  • Enterprise
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Thriving in AWS Cloud: The Power of Packet-Level Visibility

Companies typically choose a cloud path to save money, remain elastic to avoid over- and under-provisioning resources, spin up global capabilities faster, and become more agile in...

  • Enterprise