Peter Jakowetz
Peter Jakowetz

Bio

Peter Jakowetz
Managing Director - PrivSec Consulting

Peter started PrivSec Consulting to bring high quality assurance and penetration testing to the NZ market back in 2021. He has previously worked for the Ministry of Justice as their Security Assurance Manager, and has worked for a range of NZ organisations, uplifting their security posture. He belives firmly in making security accessible and understandable, and lowering the barriers to having a good security posture.

2024

Collaboration not Confrontation
Opening Keynote

Security reviews are great, but sometimes you can be left feeling that ‘your code is bad and you should feel bad’. That's not the case though - pragmatism and collaboration is the path forward. In the end, both developers and security folk are after the same goals - secure, robust software.