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Matthew Hackling B.Sc. (Security)

Matthew is the sole director of Ronin Security Consulting Pty Ltd. After a number of years working in a Big 4 professional services firm, and before that for a system integrator and a consulting engineering company, he has gathered the following experience he can now share with his clients.

Physical and Electronic Security

• Testing, tendering and commissioning the upgrade of security systems of maximum security prisons for year 2000 compliance.
• Designing, tendering and commissioning physical and electronic security upgrades for maximum security prisons.
• Designing, tendering, contract management and commissioning of perimeter security upgrades for a juvenile detention centre and a maximum security remand centre.
• Assisting on the design of the security for a maximum security reserve bank in an Asian country, including protection against Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) attack, suicide bombing of the foyer, and glazing design to minimise injury in case of explosion.
• Conducting site inspections of new datacenters for a banking institution and a utility client's audit departments.
• Conducting commissioning testing post installation of new electronic security systems in a bank datacenter.

Computer Security

• Acting as sole security architect on a $25M+ security focused program of work for a major financial institution.
• Acting as security architect on a new high security and low latency foreign exchange trading platform which has traded over $40B to date.
• Conducting a comprehensive assessment of internet banking processes and technology of two mid tier banking institutions for submission to APRA, including web application security, infrastructure security and supporting policy and procedures.
• Performing security acceptance testing of a major release of Australia's most well known internet banking system, including customer and customer service officer web interfaces and supporting infrastructure.
• Performing security acceptance testing on a $110M web based telling system replacement project for a top tier banking institution, linking security risks to requirements to test cases.
• Acting as trusted advisor on an internet banking replacement project for a top tier bank — risk assessment, security requirements, three phases of web application security assessment and pre-production testing.
• Testing a dispatch system for an emergency services organisation.
• Conducting configuration examination based security assessments of SCADA systems for water and electricity utility audit departments.
• Managing an internet service provider, web hosting environment, tendering system, ecommerce system and credit card payment gateway for a state government, including firewall, router, server and intrusion prevention system administration.

Information Security Management

• Conducting a year long secondment to a banking institution to conduct assurance reviews over the roll-out of an information security governance framework, resulting in an improvement in the bank's audit rating.
• Developing security policies, standards, processes and procedures for Australia's leading car manufacturer.
• Developing technical security standards for a government health shared service centre.

Qualifications

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Bachelor of Science (Security), Edith Cowan University — at issue in 1997, one of five people in the world with a bachelors in security management

Professional Associations

• Former Branch Executive of the Melbourne Branch of the Australian Information Security Association
• AISA Professional member
• Information Security Forum participant
• Open Web Application Security Project participant

Other Honours

• Prominently featured in a half page article in the Age newspaper.
• Published in Australian Security Magazine.