CyRise is pleased to announce the winner of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) Cybersecurity Startup of the Year: Sydney-based startup, Plerion. Plerion was founded by serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Cloud Conformity, Mike Rahmati, former AWS security lead Pierre Liddle, as well as Paul Garner, a commercial leader with…

Here at CyRise, we’ve had a longstanding admiration of Atlassian’s innovative spirit and vibrant company culture (when your corporate values include things like, ‘Open company, no bullshit’, and ‘Don’t #@!% the customer’, you know you’ve looking at a pretty awesome company). So it is with genuine pride and excitement to…

CyRise is growing, and as part of that we are looking for someone to come and work with us in a sales capacity. We want to take the time to explain what we are looking for, because the person who gets this job will probably end up building the single…

Join us in welcoming the most international cohort the CyRise accelerator has ever seen! Teams hailing from six cities across the USA, Singapore, India, and Australia have overcome time differences and lingering pandemic restrictions, launching themselves wholeheartedly into the intensive 14-week program. …

On Tuesday 16th November, six startups will pitch for the title of AISA ‘Startup of the Year’. The award comes with $5,000 in prize money from AISA and CyRise — but it won’t be easy to take home the title. The 2021 field is perhaps the toughest yet, and each…

Great ideas take time, if the history of Byte25 is anything to go by. It’s been worth the wait. — “Dave and I first met around 1988, when we worked together at a computer supplier,” says Frank Canas of his co-founder, Dave Britt. “Our paths crossed a couple of times, but then we diverged.” Frank got into computers, then into communications, computer networking, and then cybersecurity around 2005. He’s since…

Founders’ reasons for getting started are often fairly personal. Old uni mates Adam Laitt and Brad Smorgon’s motivations for founding TRAILD began with their families. — “Both Adam and I were affected by fraud,” Brad explains. “My uncle received an email requesting a substantial payment to be made to Hong Kong and it went through the business’s full approval process while he was away on holidays.” The payment request was fraudulent, however.

For DroneSec CEO Mike Monnik, his startup is the culmination of a life-long interest. — “Cybersecurity has been my passion since I was 13 or 14 years old. I’ve always had a curiosity-driven approach to the world, and I enjoy working on things that make life safer and have a real-world impact.” It’s no surprise, then, that Mike’s interest in drone security was piqued when…

At first glance, CyAmast co-founders Hassan Habibi and Adam de Jong might seem like very different people. Looking closer, it all makes sense. — Originally from Australia, Adam joined the US military where he built tactical data networks and worked in signals and intelligence. He then transitioned into GM functions, and was the 5th employee in Diamond Cyber Security, which he helped build into a saleable business that was ultimately acquired by CyberCX.