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Department

Cyber Security Operations

Cyber Security Operations protects client environments through endpoint protection, patching, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability scanning and security monitoring. The team triages alerts, responds to incidents, runs awareness training and reports client maturity against the Essential Eight.

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Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Monitor security alerts and triage suspected incidents
  • Lead incident response and client notification
  • Run patching, vulnerability scans and Essential Eight reviews
  • Deliver security awareness training and phishing simulations
  • Maintain the security incident register
Performance measures

How we know it is working

97%
Critical patches within 48 hours
1.8 hours
Mean time to contain
68%
Clients at Essential Eight maturity level two or above
People

Who works here

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Yasmin Haddad

Cyber Security Lead

Yasmin leads incident response, patching and Essential Eight assessments across all managed clients and joined Nova four years ago from a bank security team.

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Amira Osman

Security Analyst

Amira triages security alerts, runs phishing simulations and prepares client vulnerability reports and has been at Nova for eighteen months.