information security managed security services security consultancy founded 2000 in new zealand headquarters wellington new zealand key people adrian van hest group manager products anti virus anti spam web filtering firewalls denial of service attack protection remote access parent vodafone nz website dmzglobal.com dmzglobal is now the specialist security division of vodafone new zealand after it was purchased from telstra as part of sale of its new zealand subsidiary telstraclear . 1 dmzglobal is one of the leading managed security service providers mssp in the asia pacific region and in 2009 and 2010 it was nominated for the organisational excellence in information security as part of the auscert secure computing awards . 2 3 dmzglobal made international headlines when they used owen walker for a number of seminars aimed at raising awareness of it security . 4 5 dmzglobal also got media attention when a senior security engineer working for them ran the race to zero malware competition at def con convention . 6 dmzglobal provides a number of unique managed security services including the only distributed denial of service attack protection service available in new zealand 7 and the only in cloud government approved mail encryption service . 8 other service include firewall management clean internet and e mail services and website hosting and protection . 9 dmzglobal ltd was founded in wellington on the 30th of august 2000 as a wholly owned subsidiary of sytec resources ltd. dmzglobal was acquired by telstraclear when it purchased sytec resources ltd late 2004 . 10 although dmzglobal has grown significantly since the acquisition it ceased being a limited company in its own right in new zealand and australia when on 31 december 2006 it was absorbed back in sytec resources ltd. subsequently on 30 june 2007 sytec was also de registered and absorbed into telstraclear . the dmzglobal australia pty ltd company was de registered on the 10th of december 2008 . 11 telstraclear s large enterprise division merged with sytec to form telstraclear enterprise and government and align the organisational structure with australian parent telstra . as a division of telstraclear it was part of vodafone purchase that was approved by the commerce commission and the overseas investment office on 30 october 2012 12 dmzglobal used to be famous for its ford ba falcons and sponsorship of a boat in the new zealand offshore powerboat racing series in particular the 2002 championship winning team piloted by the company s original founder grant smith . 13 14 references edit one of dmzglobal ford falcons outside the wellington office vodafone buys telstraclear . dmzglobal nominated as finalists for auscert secure computing awards . dmzglobal nominated as finalists for auscert secure computing awards again . telstra hires hacker . the sydney morning herald . 24 march 2009 . new zealand company hires hacker . bbc news . 25 march 2009 . retrieved 2 january 2010 . kiwi s def con contest challenges av vendors . telstraclear defends against denial of service attacks . telstraclear takes email encryption to the cloud . dmzglobal secures sharepoint for fly buys . telstraclear acquires sytec . telecomworldwire . 2004 . dmzglobal australia details from australian securities & investments commission website . vodafone gets green light to buy telstraclear . nz offshore powerboat national honours . the dmzglobal boat in action on youtube . external links edit dmzglobal s international site dmzglobal s new zealand site dmzglobal s australian site vodafone new zealand s homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dmzglobal & oldid 694371996 categories vodafonecompanies of new zealand navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 december 2015 at 21 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view