News
Welcome Paul Blowers
Mar 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 Mar 2010
Graeme Neilson is continuing his world tour with Troopers 10 in Heidelberg, Germany.



Winner of Electra Awards New Thinking 2009
10 Nov 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 Oct 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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Apr 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
Dec 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
Nov 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 showcased our services at the BrightStar/IDC CIO Summit on July 22nd & 23rd in Auckland, especially our new RedEye.
If you were there you'd have heard an excellent presention by Craig Walker the CTO of Xero casestudying our services with them.


QualIT Partnership
May 2008
We're excited to accounce our partnership with QualIT through which we're providing our PRODUCTION STRENGTH testing service, combining security testing and performance testing services.


IT Security Summit
April 2008
Our very own Mark Keegan presented at this year's Brightstar Annual IT Security Summit
A good 2 days session - well worth attending if you haven't before.


Graeme on IT Radio - Australia
Feb 2008
A great interview with Graeme Neilson on Ausy's IT Radio all about BlackBerry hacking and Aura's "RedBerry" security tool. IT Radio #46


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


Events
     
NZ CIO Summit 2009
 
21st & 22nd July 2009 - Regency Hyatt, Auckland

Aura Software Security Ltd was again a Platinum Sponsor of this event, and what a great event it was this year. With almost twice the attendees the conference had a real buzz this year. It was great to hear that IT Security and Ethical Hacking were mentioned in the keynote. Some key obvservations this year was that our job was less about education and more about action, customers coming to us knowing what IT Security services they're after. Also more customers are opening up their web-presence for remote-office, customer self-service, online services and cloud-computing - these advances are all putting a greater need on IT security considerations.

Paul Blowers, Enterprise Security Architect for the NZ Police gave a great presentation on Governance and Holistic Security in the NZ Police. Paul's focus was on good usage on the ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 IT Security Standards.
Well done to Peter Deefholts of Maude Nursing in Christchurch who won our prize-draw of copies of both the ISO 27001 and ISO 27002. If you're after a copy you can purchase them from the Standards NZ website:
Also, if you attended and conference and are after the BridgePoint Self-Assessment tool (Excel Spreadsheet) that he demonstrated then you can request a copy from BridgePoint here

If you're interested in how we can help with the ISO 27001 path, security reviews, penetration testing, security training or our RedEye vulnerability scanning service then contact us for more info.