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Our Team is proud to welcome Privasec’s Country Head for Southeast Asia, Md Noordin, who will continue to enhance Privasec’s reputation of providing high quality and client-tailored services. He will be based in Privasec’s Singapore office and is responsible to drive profitable growth and day-to-day operations across the SEA region. Md Noordin has over 17 years of experience in diverse roles ranging from Cyber Security, IT/Operational Audits, Compliance, Investigations and Forensics in the government and private sectors.

We saw a great turnout yesterday with the Privasec’s APAC Cyber Security Advisor Shamane Tan moderating the panel at the Australian Information Security Association’s joint event with Cyber Risk Meetup. It was an insightful evening hearing from the Sydney FAIR chapter lead: Denny Wan about APRA CPS 234 Readiness using the FAIR framework. A big shoutout to all the panel speakers: Leslie Bell, Wilson …

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Privasec is really excited to welcome two exciting talents to its team. Earlier this month, Winky Tsui and Marilyn Chua joined Privasec as Senior Consultant in Sydney and Associate Consultant in Singapore respectively. Winky has over 5 years of experience ranging from Business Information officer to Senior Security Consultant and Marilyn has over 2.5 years of experience working as Cyber Security Consultant with Deloitte Singapore.

Privasec is proud to support SecTalks Melbourne for a second year running with the sponsoring of CTF exercises and prizes. Privasec RED Managing Consultant and SecTalks Melbourne Organiser, Mike Monnik spoke at the inaugural 2019 meetup on some of the techniques used by our Red Team within dedicated Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) engagements.

Privasec is excited to partner with Cyber Risk Meetup in Brisbane to bring together ‘Cyber Insurance- Is it worth the paper it’s written on?’.

Android users need to be highly cautious as menial tasks such as viewing a png file can compromise their smartphone.

Privasec and its subsidiary DroneSec are excited to sponsor the inaugural BSides Melbourne conference to be held on 16th and 17th February.

The Privasec Red guys have been ethically breaking into networks and premises to help organisations identify critical gaps in their security implementation. Using realistic attack techniques and methodologies that are tailored to each of our customers, the team consistently obtains physical and electronic access to various forms of sensitive information. In most cases, the Privasec Red Team been able to compromise clients by using cheap and simple techniques that can be easily protected against.

The Privasec team in Brisbane, Queensland is very excited to be working with one of Australia’s most exciting payments providers as they finalise their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Merchants and service providers across Australia are increasingly being asked by their acquiring banks and customers to provide evidence of their compliance. PCI DSS QSA’s at Privasec have been helping clients for many years to understand how the standard impacts their business, how to adopt the security controls required by the standard and how to achieve this in in the most productive, cost effective and timely manner. If you are not sure how PCI DSS might impact your business Privasec’s PCI DSS health check can provide the answers.

Privasec’s Consultant, Sajeeb Lohani has been invited to speak at the OWASP Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on 22nd February.