Nicholas O'Sullivan — IT & Cyber Security in Townsville
Practical technology leadership in North Queensland
I'm Nicholas O'Sullivan, usually Nick — a Townsville-based IT professional with more than 15 years of experience across infrastructure, cloud platforms, education technology, cyber security, systems administration and practical technology leadership.
Professional focus
I focus on secure, explainable and maintainable technology: strengthening school technology foundations, improving cloud and identity governance, planning resilient infrastructure and helping organisations understand which technology risks and improvements matter most.
Technology leadership
Strategy, service delivery, infrastructure planning, documentation and practical risk management.
Cyber security
Identity, Microsoft 365, endpoint management, cloud governance and security-minded operations.
Infrastructure
Networks, servers, virtualisation, automation and maintainable systems for complex environments.
Technology in Townsville and North Queensland
I write from the perspective of someone working in information technology in Townsville: regional cyber security incidents, digital inclusion, education technology, infrastructure and the practical constraints local organisations face. Start with the experiment behind searching for Nick in Townsville, browse the North Queensland Cyber Watch series, or read why I still take on cyber security consulting work locally.
Recent articles
View all postsNorth Queensland Cyber Watch: a Townsville gym data breach reaches serving police officers
Serving Townsville police officers were caught up in a data breach linked to a Burdell gym, with client details reportedly found on a USB during a police raid. What is known, why a data breach is not always a hack, and what it says about the platforms gyms run on.
From Trivy to GitHub: how the TeamPCP supply-chain attacks spread, and what we can do about it
How stolen developer credentials from the Trivy compromise cascaded into Bitwarden, TanStack, Nx, OpenAI, GitHub and the European Commission, and the controls the FBI and affected vendors recommend.
The AFP didn't name the software: what was behind the TeamPCP supply-chain attacks
The AFP charged two men over a global cybercrime syndicate but never named the compromised software. Lined up against months of public incident reports, the mystery is Trivy, Checkmarx KICS, LiteLLM and the Telnyx Python SDK.
The problem with being called Nick in Townsville
What Mayor Nick Dametto is teaching me about Google, names, personal SEO and building a clearer local identity online.