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Insomnia Security Specialists


Founded in 2007, Insomnia Security is a team of more than thirty IT professionals, including a consultancy team with well over 75 years combined experience in commercial, offensive security.

With offices in Auckland, Wellington and Melbourne, as well as global partners around the world, we are well positioned to provide penetration testing and other IT security services to our clients. Understanding the subtle differences in IT security testing that companies require, the team at Insomnia Security are experienced in tailoring services to meet the scope and requirements of our customers.

Specialising in offensive security testing services, our teams regularly attend specialist training and conduct in-house research and tool development, ensuring that they are always aware of current attacks and exploitation techniques. With a range of services to cover most technical security testing requirements, Insomnia Security are the team to help you rest secured.

Lateral Security


Lateral Security is New Zealand’s leading independent IT security company providing tailored information security testing and advisory services.

Directors Nick von Dadelszen and Ratu Mason founded Lateral Security in 2008 after seeing the need for an independent ICT security services company that uses a highly specialised team of management (advisory) and technical (testing) security consultants. The Directors value quality over quantity and this is reflected in every process within the business which is designed to provide business level actionable outcomes for our clients.

Lateral Security has 30 staff in offices located in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and relationships with service providers in Canada and the United States.

Clients include businesses and government agencies with the toughest security compliance requirements, including those in the financial services and telecommunications.

Our company vision: "To improve the IT security and safety of our customers and all New Zealanders"

Aura Information Security


Aura Information Security consists of a team of highly-skilled and renowned information security professionals spanning Australia and New Zealand. We are leaders in cyber security. Our team of experts utilise specialist skills and knowledge to help our customers identify cyber threats and prevent potentially catastrophic breaches.

We offer an unprecedented range of services and level of support for government, corporates and medium-sized businesses, globally. Our consultants thrive on building rapport with, and becoming trusted advisors to, our clients by maintaining our impartiality and offering sound, independent security advice.

Since our inception in 2006, our customers have benefited from our cost-effective and innovative approach to providing a holistic security model, ensuring all their information and technology systems are secure and attack-ready.

With teams based in New Zealand and Australia, our people are our best asset. All our consultants are hand-selected for their expertise to ensure we always maintain a high standard for our customers.

Aura Information Security is an independent division of Kordia Limited, a leading provider of mission-critical networks across New Zealand and Australia. At Kordia, our people are your network. We bring together professionals from diverse disciplines, with complementary skills, to provide distinctly local solutions.

Quantum Security Specialists


Founded in 2014 Quantum Security Services aims to provide excellence throughout our engagement process. We utilise only the best personnel available in the market to ensure our clients receive the best. We engage our clients throughout and provide comprehensive and readable reports.

Quantum’s professional staff include OSCP, SABSA, CISA, CISSP and PCI-QSA certified consultants, experienced account managers, and a dedicated management team with a passion for information security.

At Quantum we offer a wide array of services, from technical penetration testing to governance risk and compliance assessments. We are a technical team of passionate InfoSec consultants, gathered from all round the world.

Secure Code Warrior


Secure Code Warrior was co-founded by Pieter Danhieux and Matias Madou Ph.D., two globally recognised security experts. Through their combined security experience as developers, researchers, trainers and consultants, Pieter and Matias had experienced the negative impact of insecure code and were frustrated by the industry's focus on simply finding vulnerabilities, rather than fixing or preventing them in the first place.

Both recognised that improving secure coding skills and outcomes would add a powerful layer of cyber protection for companies and would help them make better code, faster. Developers didn’t need to become security experts per se, but they could be empowered positively to be the first line of defence for their organisation.

The team pioneered an innovative approach to improving secure coding skills and outcomes that is simple, scalable and positive; and works for both Development and Application or Information Security groups. The team is driven by the knowledge that measurable improvements in security compliance, consistency and predictability will be matched by a better quality and speed of code writing. And that creates an environment in which everyone can enjoy spending more time building, and less time fixing!

SEQA Information Security


At SEQA Information Security our mission is to make a difference in the resilience of New Zealand businesses from cyberattacks. We do this by providing world-class information security services and solutions that are relevant to modern businesses.

SEQA brings together highly-skilled information security professionals to offer a range of modern security advisory solutions that are relevant in today’s fast-paced marketplace.

Our partnership with quality assurance is what makes us agile, innovative and flexible. It allows us to draw on a wide range of complimentary skills that are critical to building robust applications such as Business Analysis, Software Engineering, Automation, Functional and Performance testing. We can offer our customers an end to end secure quality assurance service.

SEQA ensures the security needs across a range of industries including; government, corporates and medium-sized business.

Business competitiveness hinges on the velocity and quality of software delivery. This velocity is challenging the way secure software is being delivered through new methodologies that allow continual integration and deployment. With these new approaches, security testing also needs to work closely with Development, Operations and Quality Assurance teams to ensure security is built-in by default.