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Kim Carter

Technologist / Engineer, Information Security Professional, Entrepreneur, creator of PurpleTeam, and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd. OWASP NZ Chapter Leader. Certified Scrum Master. Facilitator, mentor and motivator of cross functional, self managing teams. With a solid 20 years of commercial industry experience across many domains, Kim enjoys teaching others how to apply information security to their Agile processes, bringing the security focus up front where it's the cheapest to implement, increasing profit and reducing costs. Organiser of two information security conferences (OWASP NZ Day and Christchurch Hacker Con), International trainer, speaker, and Software Engineering Radio podcast host, focusing on:

  1. Software and network architecture
  2. Web development and engineering
  3. Information security

Kim is also a regular blog poster at binarymist.io/blog. Kim loves designing and creating robust software and networks, breaking software and networks, then fixing them and helping organisations increase productivity.

Kim's Other Books: binarymist.io/publication/kims-selected-publications/