Innovate Napier - Tony Krzyzewski

Join us for breakfast from 7.15 am with our guest speaker starting at 7.45 am.

Tony Krzyzewski - Director at SAM for Compliance and a Global Cyber Alliance Ambassador - Current Global Threats with Cyber Security

Protect your business; online, you are just a number at risk of becoming a statistic.

Come and learn from leading cybersecurity specialist Tony Krzyzewski on how to protect your business because, on the internet, you are just a number waiting to become a statistic.

Hawkes Bay resident Tony Krzyzewski has been involved with cybersecurity for the past 27 years. He and his wife, Jackie manage the online SAM for Compliance cybersecurity assessment service from their base in Bridge Pa and run the Cybersecurity Improvement Programme for New Zealand Local Government.

Tony is a contributor to the development of the Center for Internet Security Critical Cyber Controls, which are used by hundreds of thousands of organisations across the planet to help reduce cybersecurity-related risk. He is one of four CIS Controls Ambassadors and helps promote the use of CIS Controls in Government, Local Government and Commercial enterprises.

He is an Ambassador for the Global Cyber Alliance and sits on the Alliance’s Strategic Advisory Council. This non-profit organisation, founded by the Center for Internet Security, the City of London Police and the Office of the District Attorney of New York, creates free tools and resources for use by organisations and individuals to reduce cybersecurity risk and harm.

Tony is the New Zealand Convenor for ISO SC27. In this role, he holds New Zealand's vote at the International Standards Organisation for all Cybersecurity, Information Security and Privacy Protection standards.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals, and when he is not busy with cybersecurity-related matters can frequently be found driving his steam locomotive at the Keirunga Park Railway in Havelock North, where he holds the position of Secretary.