Gary is the most experienced cyber security specialist in Brisbane, as he had been a pure play cyber security specialist since 1993. This career has been built on extensive experience across government and large enterprises and upon a research masters degree in cyber security. He offers cyber security training services, develops security strategies and plans, conducts formal information system audits, identifies cyber risk and provides awareness training of cyber related business risks for company boards and executives. His career highlights include: 1.       Leadership for the development of cyber security review/audit programs, since 1997 2.       Developing security plans for banking, finance and government systems, 3.       Serving on the IT security standards committee of Standards Australia, 4.       Developing both the technical and managerial security plans for new Queensland Police network with 600 sites shared by 3 different agencies, 5.       Leading security audits for the Queensland and NSW Parliaments 6.       Being awarded the “Information Security Professional of the Year – 2013” by the AISA. 7.       Developing the national rail industry cyber security strategy 2018 Recent Experience His experience covers cyber security governance, management and assurance processes, IT security design and assurance, Application security, ASAE 3402 and business continuity. Certifications Gary holds the following certifications: ·         Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), ·         Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), ·         Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), ·         Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ·         Certified in Risk and Information System Controls (CRISC) ·         ISACA approved CISM, CRISC & CISA Trainer ·         Certified Professional – Cyber Security by the Australian Computer Society ·         Certified ISO 27001 Senior Lead Implementer, Senior Lead Auditor ·         Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Education Gary holds a Masters by research in cyber security, a bachelor degress in electronic systems and computer engineering and a bachelor degree of IT from QUT. This early research and development work influenced USA-based industry standards initiatives to integrate Public Key technologies into Kerberos and the X/Open DCE system and eventually Microsoft Windows.

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