A UK Cyber security specialist has chosen Sydney as its new base to expand into the Asia Pacific region.
Foregenix will open its new office in May with new appointment Raymond Simpson leading the APAC consulting team.
Foregenix’s new Regional Director for the APAC Region brings over 15 years’ information security experience including specialist knowledge of security and regulatory requirements across the APAC region. Simpson’s sector experience spans retail, hospitality, aviation, banking, telecoms and the payment card industries.
Foregenix has established successful operations in South Africa, Uruguay, Germany and the USA. It works with some of the world’s largest payment companies, central banks and online businesses and also offers solutions to help SMEs to combat cyber crime.
Raymond Simpson comments: ““Australia offers fantastic opportunities domestically as well as regionally. With a fantastic workforce, government support of the industry and a thriving business community that requires high-level cyber security, it’s an exciting time to be in the sector.
“I am looking forward to building Foregenix’s operations in Sydney, Australia and across the region.”
Foregenix’s CEO Andrew Henwood adds: “Foregenix products and services have attracted an international client base that requires and values skilled and focused cyber security skills and solutions. Our presence in APAC is growing and the new Australian appointment and office gives us the base to offer more.”
Foregenix’s services include incident response, managed threat detection and mitigation, compliance and risk management andspecialist cyber forensic services.
Andrew Henwood will be speaking at the PCI SSC Community Meeting in Bangkok, 17th-18th May.
About Foregenix
Foregenix is an independent, specialist information security business that has a global service capability. The Foregenix team has operated in the payment card industry since the inception of the security standards in 2004, and has carried out forensic investigations and compliance assessments on hundreds of organizations, ranging from small online stores to national banks.
