Optic Security Group announces partnership with Cyber Resilience Group
Eve Goode
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Optic Security Group’s CEO, Ferzad Bharucha has announced a strategic cybersecurity partnership with the Cyber Resilience Group (CRG).
Along with the new partnership, CRG has appointed Grant McKechnie as its new Chief Security Officer in an advisory role to guide both the delivery of services aimed at enhancing the security posture and cyber-resilience of Optic Security and its customers.
“A seasoned Chief Information Security Officer”
Following the appointment of the new CSO, Bharucha stated: “Grant is a seasoned Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Risk Leader with over two decades of experience in cybersecurity and IT leadership.
“He has held key positions at some of the country’s largest corporations, including Endeavour Group, Telstra, NAB, BP and NBN, Australia” he added.
McKechnie’s new role as CSO will allow him to deliver Optic‘s converged digital-physical security advisory services to external customers.
“A next phase in Optic’s continuing journey”
Bharucha commented on the next steps for ensuring Optic’s success: “This is a next phase in Optic’s continuing journey towards delivering a new suite of advisory and managed services to the market converging our existing physical security risk management capabilities with a fit-for-purpose digital security capability.”
New suite of services
Optic is ensuring an uplift in its own information security management and improving its posture within the industry. The new and expanded suite of services includes:
- Security risk assessment and management
- Security awareness training
- Incident response planning
- Penetration testing
- Data protection and privacy compliance
- Security monitoring
- Consulting services