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Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500!
04 Dec 2010
Congratulations to Aura on getting into the Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500! A huge 284th position. Excellent - this gives us 283 companies to improve on for next year...
Electra Business of the Year - goes to AURA!
01 Jul 2010
What a HUGE evening at the Electra Business Awards! We are extremely proud to have been awarded the "Business of the Year"!
As well as that we won the "Hi-Growth Award", "New-Thinking" and "Customer Services Award", as well as being finalists for "Staff Development" and "Operational Capability".
More IT Security TRAINING
Sept - Dec 2010
We have a new round of our Teaching the Good-Guys Bad-Tricks IT Security training courses coming up, in Wellington, Auckland and Christchuch through-out Sept to Dec.
We are running both in-house corporate sessions, and are booking several group venues that are open for public bookings. Places fill up fast so CONTACT US now for arrangements.
$250,000 TechNZ Grant for Aura RedEye
Jul - Dec 2010
Aura's RedEye vulnerability scanning product and threat analysis service has been awarded a $250,000 TechNZ Research and Development grant from theFoundation for Research, Science and Technology
Microsoft TechEd 2010
30 Aug - 1 Sep 2010
Microsoft's TechEd NZ will be another huge event. Aura's Andy Prow will be presenting again with Kirk Jackson - Hack-Ed, Teaching the Good-Guys MORE Bad-Tricks
NZ Computer Society National Programme
12 - 19 Aug 2010
As part of the NZCS National Programme Andy Prow has been travelling NZ with an IT Security Awareness programme. The programme included Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland.
NZ CIO Summit 2010
20 - 21 Jul 2010
The CIO Summit was another excellent event this year with Aura again being platinum sponsors.
Tales of the Crypt0
15 July 2010
Graeme Neilson presented with Kirk Jackson from Xero on cryptography at the OWASP Day New Zealand
More information and publication available here
Marcus Evans NZ CIO Summit
12 April 2010
Paul Blowers will be presenting on the security considerations of "cloud-computing" at the Marcus Evans NZ CIO Summit in Auckland.
Brighstar 15th Annual IT Security Summit
30 March 2010
Andy Prow and Paul Blowers are presenting on the security issues of social-networking at Brighstar 15th Annual IT Security Summit in Auckland.
Welcome Paul Blowers
March 2010
We are very pleased to welcome Paul Blowers to the Aura team. Paul will be heading up our fast-expanding IT Security Architecture practice.
Troopers 10 - Heidelberg, Germany
8-12 March 2010
Graeme Neilson is continuing his world tour with Troopers 10 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Winner of Electra Awards New Thinking 2009
November 2009
We are very proud to be the winners of the Electra Business Awards 2009 - New Thinking and Innovation category! Putting "Silicon Gorge" on the map
Help Sponsor our Southern Crossing
January 2010
In loving memory of Betty Nicholson and Helen Palmer, Andy Prow and family (Diane, Josh and Autumn) are walking the Southern Crossing - 3 day hike over the top of the Tararua Range!
Please help support us in raising funds for the Neurological Foundation.
Find out how...
Day-Con III - Dayton Security Summit
15 October 2009
The now world-famous and highly sought after Graeme Neilson is off to present at Day-Con III in Ohio, USA, and Aura is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of this excellent IT security event.
Microsoft TechEd
14-16 September 2009
Microsoft's TechEd NZ was another HUGE event this year, all the more so of course because Andy Prow presented with Kirk Jackson - check out "SEC313: Hack-Ed, Teaching the Good-Guys Bad-Tricks"
Microsoft Code Camp 09
13 September 2009
If you're heading to TechEd this year and need to scratch up on your Secure Coding Practices then definately come along to the .Net Code Camp. Andy Prow will be presenting with Kirk Jackson of Xero on Secure Coding Practices.
BlackHat Vegas
25-30 July 2009
Aura's Graeme Neilson gave an EXCELLENT presentation at BlackHat USA 09. Graeme presented his now world famous "NetScreen of the Dead" (sorry Juniper). BlackHat is "the World's Premier Technical Security Conference", so we're very proud to have Graeme invited to speak!
Read more...
CIO Summit
21-22 July 2009
The NZ CIO Summit 2009 was an excellent event! Almost twice the size of last year it was buzzing.
Thanks to Paul Blowers, Enterprise Security Architect from the NZ Police for an excellent talk. Read more...
OWASP DAY 2009
13 July 2009
Look out for the OWASP NZ Day 2009 on July 13th in Auckland.
Andy Prow is presenting with Kirk Jackson from Xero - "XSS The Gloves are Off". Andy's hacking, Kirk's defending... hopefully not too much blood spilt!
.Net User Group
29 April 2009
Andy Prow presented at the .Net User Group talk at Xero, Wellington. Find out more... If you couldn't be there - download the presso
IT Security Summit 09
14-15 April 2009
Mark Keegan again gave an excellent presentation at this year's Brightstar Annual IT Security Summit
Mark presented "Hacks and Demos: Securing Web Applications" - see our presentations
ISACA
December 2008
Andy Prow presented at the ISACA Computer Security Day on the 2nd Dec 2008 in Wellington. Andy's presentation focussed on the "SANS Defensive Wall 1 - Proactive Software Assurance". Read more...
RUXCON
November 2008
Great conference - Graeme Neilson presented at RUXCON in Sydney this year - 29th,30th Nov 08. Graeme presented on how to hack Juniper firewalls, rebuilding and reloading the OS, to create an untraceable "zombied" firewall - you run it, we own it, what more could you ask for? This preso was certainly one of the best of the whole conference (totally unbiased opinion of course!). Read more...
CIO Summit
July 2008
We'll be showcasing our services at the BrightStar CIO Summit in July, especially our new RedEye.
If you're there you'll also hear what will be an excellent presention by Craig Walker the CTO of Xero, casestudying our services with them.
IT Security Summit
April 2008
Our very own Mark Keegan will be presenting at this year's Brightstar Annual IT Security Summit
If you're going, then we'll see you up there in AKL - 17th, 18th April 08.
Microsoft Certified Partners
January 2008
We're very proud to announce that Aura Software has just become a Microsoft Certified Partner.
Research & Development
December 2007
We are extremely happy to have been granted a TBG grant from the Foundation of Research, Science and Technology - see www.FRST.govt.nz for more info.
The fruits of this project will be seen in the next versions of our RedEye service.
Kiwicon 2k7
November 2007
Mark Keegan and Graeme Neilson both gave presentations at the inaugral Kiwicon Event - NZ's own Security Conference.
Check out www.Kiwicon.org for info on the conference, and our publications page to have a look yourself
Over the Ditch
October 2007
This Kiwi Security consulting company engaged in our first penetration test across the ditch in Australia, testing the Managed Accounts website owned and operated by Investment Administration Services Pty.
Read the full case study here
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