Need for Security: SIMULATION – 23 FEB

Callum heads up the security analysts in the newly combined 2dgrees security team, running red and blue teams, Incident response and DDOS protection. Prior to this role, Callum ran the SNOC team, acted as a Agency liaison, and ran the warrants team. Currently he is the IT admin of the NZITF and active member of the security community.

Khurram Waheed (KW) has been ExtraHop’s Principal Sales Engineer for 6 + years; working across all customer verticals in Australia and New Zealand. KW has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry across the globe, working for vendors like Cisco Systems/US and Juniper Networks/EMEA. KW currently specializes in NDR (Network Detection and Response) and ITOA (IT Operations & Analytics) solutions, having architected them for large telcos, retail/casinos/universities/federal and state government customers. In his prior life, KW used to be an Enterprise and Service Provider solutions architect covering Data Center, MPLS, Metro Ethernet, Mobile Packet cores as well as BNG technologies. KW holds a CCIE certification, and has a US patent in ‘Detection of DoS attacks’.

Simon is responsible for building and managing relationships with organisations in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for AttackIQ. A respected industry expert in the APJ region with over 25 years of sales and management experience Simon collaborates with the cyber security community to inform and uplift cyber security programs and capability. Prior to AttackIQ, Simon was a senior executive at LogRhythm where he served as Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific. Simon has also held senior sales and leadership roles at Symantec, Commvault and Acronis. Originally from the UK, Simon has lived in Sydney since 1998.