A recent live interview from the CEO about running a security company:
With over 20 years of experience in providing industry-leading methodologies used by government departments and companies in heavily regulated industries such as finance and health, CXO Security works with your C-level executives to protect both company and customer data in a discreet, practical, and accountable way. CXO Security has the following board:
Chairman - JOHN PETTY (Non-Executive).
John brings a wealth of governance experience gained over 35 years. One of the most highly accredited, and acclaimed passionate business coaches, John's experience is unsurpassed by any other, focusing on building Australian businesses and leading governance management. John has won more than 25 awards for business excellence, export achievement and innovation and written several books, including the CCH Australian Business Toolkit. His attributes are highly sought, reflected in multiple chairs, non-executive and executive directorship positions.
CEO - ROBERT McADAM (CO-Founder).
With Rob's security career commencing in the NSW Police Force in 1990 for eight years, then joined IBM. Those years at IBM were instrumental in delivering enterprise IT security solutions for clients.
Building and growing security practices, developing and nurturing staff and effectively executing for clients is the hallmark of Rob's work.
CTO - DAVID MUSCAT (CO-Founder).
David and Rob met at IBM and have worked together with only a few periods at different organisations. David has extremely deep technical competence, matched by his ability to explain to any executive the core of a problem and solution.
The hallmark of David's work is quality.
Continuing to work with the Executive suite, the engagements commence and include:
Governance Reviews
Forensic Incident Response Services
Technical Reviews
Design of a Security Operation Centre
Project Resourcing
Penetration Testing
Responses to Security Questionnaires
Board Presentations
Security Consulting
Establishment of APRA Banking Licencing
ISO 27001 Reviews and Implementation
Essential 8 framework reviews, implementation and monitoring for Government and business.
Founded by David Muscat and Rob McAdam, having worked together in IT Security for over 20+ years, the idea of CXO Security is Security for the Business Executive. The CIO, CEO, CFO and alike, all of these roles are serviced by CXO Security.
Working directly with senior management and IT security professionals across a vast range of Australian companies uniquely gives CXO Security an advantage in understanding what you really need from your cyber security provider.
We know you need actionable advice and implementation that allows you to make agile business decisions.
CXO Security deploys its cloud-based monitoring, detection, containment and remediation services for its clients.
Working with the executive to understand the security framework, ensuring it can be understood by the board and gaps filled with a custom cyber insurance policy, CXO Security truly fills the bridge between cyber and insurance. The technical expertise, together with the combined knowledge in cyber and data insurance, sets CXO Security from all other domestic security consultancies. CXO Security’s processes, procedures and technology are embedded in the cyber data offering.
CXO Security’s team is called upon many times to manage cyber incident responses for clients, and all are critical for the survival of the business. The clients range from start-up’s to publicly listed entities. The risks both at a board and technical level are addressed so that the risks are manageable going forward.
CXO Security will assist in the meeting the requirements of PCI DSS, identifying gaps, remidation activities and audits under the standard. If not performing the audit function, we can provide products and services to the PCI DSS standard.
CXO Security assesses mobile, stand-alone, API web based applications for clients needing the next level of penetration testing assurance.
The team at CXO Security has been delivering penetration testing services since 2002.
CXO Security scopes, builds and prepares clients for ISO 27001 certification utilising the team’s core skills in building hybrid security practices within organisations. The security practice that is built on behalf of the client are externally audited for completeness to ISO 27001 standards.
CXO Security completes its ISO 27001 Certification with SAI Global for all business services.
CXO Security team members have completed over 100 ISO 27001 Audits and Implementations in their careers.
