A team built to provide unsurpassed security consultancy

A team built to provide unsurpassed security consultancy

A team built to provide unsurpassed security consultancy

Our experienced consultants and practitioners

Founded in 2014 Quantum Security Services aims to provide excellence throughout our engagement process. We utilise only the best personnel available in the market to ensure our clients receive the best. We engage our clients throughout and provide comprehensive and readable reports.

Quantum’s professional staff include OSCP, SABSA, CISA, CISSP and PCI-QSA certified consultants, experienced account managers and a dedicated management team with a passion for information security.

Our experienced consultants and practitioners

Founded in 2014 Quantum Security Services aims to provide excellence throughout our engagement process. We utilise only the best personnel available in the market to ensure our clients receive the best. We engage our clients throughout and provide comprehensive and readable reports.

Quantum’s professional staff include SABSA, CISA, CISSP and PCI-QSA certified consultants, experienced account managers and a dedicated management team with a passion for information security.

Our team

Eugene Gibney

Managing Director

Eugene Gibney is a respected information security consultant with over 15 years of information security experience. Eugene is the Managing Director and owner of Quantum Security and has worked extensively in numerous markets including Ireland, the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
Eugene has worked with both government and private sector clients, most recently with some of the New Zealand’s largest organisations including leading players in financial, telecommunications, utility and government sectors.
His technical background coupled with governance and compliance experience provides a very good balance between technical understanding and business requirements.

Conor Fitzgerald

General Manager

Conor joined Quantum Security in July 2019 and brings with him many years of hands on experience in information security as well as many information security qualifications and certifications.
Having graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, he has gained years of experience in the IT and information security industry.
Having previously worked as an ISO 27001 lead auditor, he has helped over 50 global customers to improve their information security. As a customer experience advocate, Conor is passionate about finding the best security solution for all types of business models.

Sam Shute

Head of Technology and Research

Sam Shute is Quantum's Head of Technology and Research with a wide range of experience, from teaching students, to practical exploitation, and guiding developers in secure development.
He is a strong believer in collaborating with development teams in order to remediate current issues, as well as to avoid creating similar issues in future.
Sam has a strong research background publishing research at both academic and industry conferences, as well as certifications, such as CISSP and OSCP, that speak to his practical ability.
Sam's core focuses at Quantum involve web application and network penetration testing, secure development consulting, and expanding the technical skillsets across the Quantum team.

Stephen Penman

Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance

Stephen Penman has been with Quantum Security a number of years and was the first to join Director Eugene Gibney after the company started. Stephen’s main role involves helping clients through their certification and accreditation processes, ranging from risk assessments through to controls audits and certification.
Stephen has a wide range of experience working with both government and commercial clients to ensure that they meet their security and compliance requirements. He has recently completed the certification process for a large agile project at a major NZ Government agency.

Callum Stewart

Technical Team Manager

As a Technical Team Manager with over six years’ security experience, Callum has a wide range of experience in several technical roles. His role at Quantum Security focuses on technical testing, as well as configuration and design reviews.
Callum covers a wide range of testing, including penetration testing of websites, applications and APIs, firewall configuration reviews, host security configuration reviews, external perimeter reviews and application configuration reviews.

Vicki Chamberlin

People and Culture Manager

Working for most of her career across project and event management within technology organisations, Vicki is Quantum Security’s People and Culture Manager.
She draws on her extensive experience working in the UK and New Zealand, leading the operations team and driving the internal processes to ensure that a consistently high standard of service is delivered to Quantum Security’s clients.
A large part of Vicki’s role involves developing, implementing and reviewing Quantum Security’s operational policies and procedures, and working to improve quality, productivity and efficiency across the team and the work we do.

Kin-Ming Looi

Principal Security Consultant

Kin-Ming has more than 13 years of experience in information security with extensive prior business and technology strategy consulting and software development experience. Kin-Ming’s vast experience expands worldwide as he has delivered many consultancy assignments to international government sectors.

Anna Thomson

Principal Security Consultant

With experience in Technology Risk and Assurance services, Anna has worked on a wide range of risk engagements including Internal Audit, Independent Quality Assurance, Financial IT Audits and C&A.
Having spent two years in professional services, Anna has worked with both public and private sector clients. She is passionate about working collaboratively to enable clients to improve their security practices.
In her spare time Anna is a dedicated athlete and competes nationally and internationally in the triple jump.

Ray Tang

Managing Security Consultant

With over six years of technical experience, Ray provides a valuable range of skills to Quantum Security.
Ray holds a number of technical certifications, such as OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, and Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert. Ray has extensive knowledge in performing technical assessments and security reviews for a wide range of private and public sector clients throughout New Zealand.
Outside of work Ray enjoys following and practicing martial arts.

Nick Lauder

Managing Security Consultant

Having worked as both a developer and security consultant, Nick understands the importance of proactive and collaborative security assessments. He has several years of experience as a penetration tester and is an expert in the field of web application and network penetration testing. Leveraging his experience as a developer, he understands how to work with internal teams to practically implement solutions within a range of different technologies.