Gareth Phillips
Head Of AI Security at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Phillips is a veteran cyber security leader with over two decades of experience across government, finance, health and consultancy sectors, currently heading AI Security at SEEK. He blends deep technical skills—penetration testing, red/purple teaming, reverse engineering and threat emulation—with strategic security engineering, incident response and SSDLC uplift work. Gareth has built and scaled teams (including managing a 40-person pentest group), co-authored two widely used open-source penetration testing books, and regularly shares research via conferences and training, including BlackHat. At SEEK he’s been instrumental in securing AI initiatives, creating an AI Cyber Security Framework and bespoke tooling to enable safe adoption of agentic systems. Known for translating adversary thinking into pragmatic business-aligned controls, he focuses on making security an enabler rather than a blocker for innovation.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Cybersecurity, IT Security, Master of Science in Cybersecurity, IT Security at University of Maryland Global CampusSutherland High
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (56)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
syphon1c/EnterprisePurpleTeaming
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Purple Team Resources for Enterprise Purple Teaming: An Exploratory Qualitative Study by Xena Olsen.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
syphon1c/dracker
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 4 months
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