Pragmatic Cybersecurity Delivered by Independent Experts

Alex is an offensive security specialist with a wide range of domestic and international experience. He previously led PwC’s Sydney-based cyber security team as a team lead, mentor, and technical cyber specialist. He personally designed and executed hundreds of bespoke offensive technical assessments and cyber uplifts for some of Australia’s biggest brands.



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He prides himself on being able to not only break IT systems though – he also does the hands on building and fixing.
 Alex has been a go-to cyber specialist for Sydney’s fintech/ startup scene as a security architect – building mature, zero-trust corporate and cloud-only product environments.



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He has personally operated live incident response teams for public companies performing the hands-on attack investigation, timelining, and remediation. And he filled in as a virtual CISO for one of Australia’s mid-tier banks for a little over a year.



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Over the last few years Alex has continued to focus on the offensive red-team space where he excels at getting the most out of exercises by engaging closely with blue teams. As someone with experience breaking, building, and investigating, Alex is the ideal person to provide technical training to upskill defenders and help them get the most out of their tools.



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Alex holds a Bachelor of Information Technology (Co-op) from the University of Technology Sydney and a list of cyber-specific testing and architecture certifications.

Peter is a senior penetration tester at Skylight Cyber specialising in Red Team and advanced persistent threat simulations. He has conducted several highly successful Red Team engagements against both locally and internationally situated clients with varying levels of security maturity, whilst achieving stealthy compromise of critical assets.



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Constantly striving to improve methodologies, Peter regularly researches new vulnerabilities, and pushes the boundaries of existing technology stacks to circumvent protective measures and help security teams harden systems against modern threats.
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Peter previously worked at several cybersecurity consulting companies, working on a vast range of products, from bespoke applications to critical telecommunication hardware. As such, he has accumulated extensive experience in penetration testing and security assessments across several programming languages and development frameworks.



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Peter graduated with Honours (first class) from the University of Sydney and holds a Bachelor of Information Technology.

With well over a decade of cybersecurity experience, and almost twenty years of experience in different aspects of IT, Chris has led complex security assessments across every industry, spanning three continents. His experience includes both planning and executing sensitive engagements that encompass, among others, critical infrastructure, industrial and residential hardware, core financial and banking systems, purpose-built devices, and cutting-edge smart deployments.

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During this time, Chris has also delivered trainings, workshops, and talks for conferences across the world and the APAC region, such as DefCon and AusCERT.

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His previous experience as part of academic research groups has provided the tools to tackle any novel problem and assist organisations with cutting edge solutions and platforms.

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Having performed engagements on all levels of abstraction, he not only able to both work on the tools as well as analyse and evaluate high level design, but most importantly is able to bridge the gap of management and engineers to provide the best possible strategy to enhance an organisation’s security posture.

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His most recent research interests revolve around hardware security, industrial IoT, smart devices and enterprise data platforms.

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Chris holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and a master’s degree in Information Systems and has attended several trainings by some of the world's foremost security experts.