Vaughan Shanks — CEO

Cybersecurity operations never stop. Teams are constantly triaging, investigating, and deciding what’s real and what isn’t, while coordinating across the business, reporting to regulators, and keeping everything moving. Most tooling wasn’t built for that reality. That’s why I co-founded Cydarm. We build a Cybersecurity Incident Response Management (CIRM) platform that helps security operations teams manage the full incident lifecycle - from triage through to reporting and compliance - with integrated playbooks to keep response consistent, fine-grained access control to keep it secure, and automation and integrations to keep it fast. Cydarm was recognised by Gartner as a Sample Vendor in the emerging CIRM category in their 2025 Hype Cycle for Security Operations. Before starting Cydarm, I spent over 20 years in information security and software engineering across defence, national security, and law enforcement. I saw firsthand how the gap between technical operations and business-level decision making creates real risk. Cydarm exists to close that gap. Always happy to talk about incident response, security operations, or building a cyber startup. Feel free to connect or reach out.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a strong focus on incident response management and software engineering.

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Experience: 21 yrs 11 mos