Ricki Burke

About

I'm one of the few recruiters in the world who have delivered (50+) talks at Black Hat USA, Asia, and Europe, and BSides Las Vegas, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth, and organised 10+ career programmes at Black Hat, BSides, and AISA CyberCon.That's why security people who ignore job boards and recruiters take my call. They're the ones our clients hire.The people I find are builders, problem-solvers, and people who understand impact. They write code and own what they ship; they don't just configure tools. They're curious, low-ego, and think in adversaries and trade-offs. And they can explain the why to engineers who don't want to be slowed down.I founded CyberSec People in + security hires across 100+ companies since, and 9 out of 10 CVs we send convert to an interview. We'd rather send one right person than five maybes.Some of our best work is for firms we can't name publicly. That's exactly why they use us. A couple I can talk about: hiring Canva's Head of Security and building the team before the $6B valuation, and scaling Afterpay's Detection & Response ahead of the Block acquisition.We work with trading firms, startups and scaleups across APAC and the US, anywhere security has to keep the firm safe without adding friction. From first security hire to full function, IC to CISO. Security engineering and leadership, detection and response, identity, platform and infrastructure security, and the engineering seats security owns.DM me here or visit www.cybersecpeople.com