Phil Hawker

Business Development Director
Phil brings over 28 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than 20 of those focused on cybersecurity and networking.
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Career highlights

Phil's career has evolved from hands-on engineering into senior architecture and business-facing roles, giving him a balanced perspective across both technical delivery and commercial outcomes. He brings a combined deep technical expertise with a strong sales focus to drive strategic growth and customer value.

Phil has held a range of senior roles including Principal Security Architect within a Managed Security Services practice, as well as Enterprise and Technical Architecture positions across New Zealand, Singapore, and China. Phil's experience spans security architecture, solution design, and consulting, with a strong track record supporting complex enterprise environments.

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PHP-FPM (PHP Source) - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2026-6735)
During a security engagement, Conrad Draper discovered a stored XSS vulnerability in the PHP-FPM status endpoint which was due to a lack of input sanitisation of the request URI. This affects the request URI when displaying stored content within the
Union-Based SQL Injection in ERPNext / Frappe Framework (CVE-2026-29081)
During some research, Cale discovered an authenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Frappe Framework, affecting the latest version of ERPNext, including cloud-hosted instances.
TimePictra (Microchip) – Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2026-3010)
During a security engagement, Steve Nyan Lin discovered a stored XSS vulnerability in the TimePictra web application which was due to a lack of input filtering. This affects the neName parameter when creating new network elements.
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