Sam Andrews

Chief Strategy Officer

Sam plays a key role in leading services to deliver quality outcomes for our clients.

Highlights

Career highlights

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Sam has over 20 years of experience in the IT and cyber security sector, working with enterprise and government clients across New Zealand, Australia and the UK. With a strong background in consulting and leadership, Sam specialises in helping organisations understand, prioritise and respond to evolving digital risks. His approach blends strategic vision with operational pragmatism, supporting clients from early maturity through to embedded security programs.

Sam drives strategic growth across Bastion, helping shape the direction of our consulting services to meet evolving client needs. He works closely with government and enterprise organisations to align security initiatives with business priorities, ensuring risk management delivers real impact.

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Silverstripe - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the administrator panel of Silverstripe CMS, specifically in the handling of the user input within the form messages module.

Silverstripe - Host Header Injection

A Host header injection vulnerability in Silverstripe has been identified that allows an attacker to poison the password rese

Statamic CMS

Sam Schroder found a local file inclusion (write only) vulnerability inside of the upload functionality of Statamic CMS. This affects front end components like forms with `assets` fields.

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