Adelaide, 28 October 2024 – OpSys Australia, a leading managed IT and secure by design cyber security provider, has announced the appointment of Shanna Daly as the company’s inaugural Chief Information Security Officer.

Based in Sydney, Daly will lead and manage the company’s cyber operations team and services, supporting the delivery of the highest level of security, according to industry frameworks, across all systems and data for both OpSys and its customers.

In addition, Daly is also tasked with developing additional cybersecurity service capabilities across managed services and consulting teams and her role will involve collaborating with the business to develop and implement comprehensive security strategies, manage internal security and risk assessments, and ensure compliance with relevant industry standards.

Matthew Fabri, Managing Director, OpSys Australia, said, “2025 will be the year where service providers will increasingly be called upon to support customer cyber security resilience as a critical foundation to support digital business innovation. Shanna Daly is an industry visionary who has been working closely with customers in understanding their needs and transforming their cyber security posture for many years. We are very pleased to have her join the team as she will bring tremendous value to our customers and support our ongoing regional growth.”

Daly joins OpSys Australia with more than 20 years of IT industry experience during which time she has held senior consulting, systems engineering, forensics, incident response and client service roles, including most recently at Cosive where she was Principal Consultant.

Prior, Daly was Director of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at ParaFlare where she built the company’s consulting team and supported customers with detailed investigations into data breaches, ransomware and insider threats.

Daly also worked for Mandiant in several roles over a five-year period including as ANZ Consulting Manager, Systems Engineer and Senior Consultant for Incident Response. Earlier on in her career, Daly worked in consulting and analyst roles for RSA and Verizon Enterprise Solutions and as a Technical Support Representative with Fujitsu.

“I’ve known the senior management team at OpSys Australia for many years and I’m excited to work alongside them to reinforce OpSys’s reputation as a renowned, world-class and respected cybersecurity and managed security services provider business across Australia,” says Shanna Daly.
“While I will initially be focused on our cyber team, operations and service offerings, I’m also looking to see where we can innovate with additional functionality, expand services offerings and support accelerated growth across the Asia Pacific region.”

Born from customer need to protect Australia’s sovereign assets at the highest levels, OpSys provides a range of services, including managed IT services, cloud services, virtualisation, mobilisation, custom services and backup as a service. The award-winning company supports SME and large private and public sector enterprises which require robust and optimal secure by design cyber security posture.

Launched in 2018, the OpSys local security operations centre in Adelaide also offers monitoring, auditing, application control, incident response and triage real-time alerting, cyber threat hunting, risk assessment and cyber policy development and implementation support.

About OpSys Australia

OpSys is a South Australian based company that offers comprehensive cybersecurity solutions to businesses of all sizes. As a member of the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP), we work closely with government and private agencies to address the cybersecurity challenges facing the defence supply chain and other highly sensitive industries. Our approach is to take the technology and lessons learned from the most security-conscious environments and tailor them to organisations of any size and security maturity. Our focus is on cybersecurity, business continuity, and ultimately, cyber-resilience.