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We knew that from the beginning if we provided customers with quality
and followed through on our commitments, that would give us the opportunity
to work with the customer again.
Steve Schupp

Asterisk was born out of the frustration security assessment, information security
experienced by business founders trying infrastructure management and application
to find cyber security capabilities for security architecture review.
projects in their cyber roles at banks, Early growth expectations were quickly
utilities, tech vendors and integrators.
exceeded with customers embracing the
In 2011, Perth didn’t have any pure focused new capability Asterisk brought to the
cyber security consultancies. The Founders, market.
Steve Schupp, David Taylor, Greg Roberts
and Cole Bergersen knew Perth needed Invoice number 1 was raised to West
a specialist group - and that their company Australian Newspapers Ltd to trouble-
could leverage this unique opportunity. shoot FTP issues with their firewall -
they, and many of the organisation’s
Specialising in information security and original customers remain with Asterisk
information risk management consulting, to this day.
Asterisk has built its business on information