Malcolm held the position of Director of Information Systems Security at GCSB where he developed and managed the national information security programme for New Zealand. On retirement from the government, he took on the Technical Director role at CES Communications where he was responsible for developing embedded cryptography products. He subsequently held the role of Technical Director at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence where he managed the security evaluation, reverse engineering and penetration testing teams. He has held a number of Chief Security Officer roles in the telecommunications field, including Telecom NZ, NBN Co, and Huawei Australia. As a consultant he has undertaken security consultancy in the UK, Australia, Norway, South Africa, and the Gulf region. He has represented Australia and New Zealand in cybersecurity forums internationally, participates in the ISO and Open Group standards bodies, and has held board roles in both AISA and the SABSA Institute. As a part time academic, Malcolm developed and lectured in the Post Graduate Diploma in Forensics and Security at Canterbury University in New Zealand and is now a visiting researcher at Deakin University in Melbourne. Malcolm was instrumental in developing and launching the vocational Certificate IV in Cybersecurity throughout Australia. He has published research in the cybersecurity field, and is the author of numerous online cybersecurity and programming courses published through Linkedin Learning and Offsec. He is currently Technical Director for Kode-1 working on AI Security.
