Kade Morton
Co-Founder at Transpower New Zealand
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKade Morton is a co-founder and cyber threat intelligence specialist with nine years’ experience blending hands-on CTI, OSINT and blue team operations with startup leadership at Arachne Digital and enterprise security roles at Transpower and Fortian. Self-taught in many aspects of cybersecurity, he combines practical SOC management and consulting experience with academic grounding in criminology and international relations, giving him a rare focus on the human motivations behind threat actors—particularly Russian CTAs. He champions open source, having open-sourced tools from his firm and built a community around them, and maintains a creative side as a long-time freelance writer and fiction author. CISA-certified and SANS-trained in SOC leadership, Kade is recognized for clear threat communication and an ability to translate complex adversary tradecraft into operational detections. Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed resonates today because its exploration of networks of trust, decentralised governance and the tension between individual freedom and collective responsibility mirrors modern debates around digital sovereignty and open-source collaboration. The novel’s portrayal of experimentation with alternative social systems offers a useful lens for rethinking resilient, community-driven approaches to cybersecurity.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Criminology and Criminal Justice/International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Criminology and Criminal Justice/International Relations at Griffith UniversityCriminology and Criminal Justice Exchange, Criminology, Criminology and Criminal Justice Exchange, Criminology at Keele UniversityHeadstart Program, Cellular Metabolism/Indonesian Language, Headstart Program, Cellular Metabolism/Indonesian Language at University of the Sunshine Coast
Github Skills (38)
cyber-threat-intelligence9
thread9
truffle8
threat-intelligence8
cybersecurity8
mitre-attack8
peer-to-peer7
solidity7
css7
react7
smart-contracts6
sprint6
ethereum6
blockchain6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Panopticon-Project/panopticon-FSB
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
Panopticon-Project/panopticon-Rana
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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