About Us

Fitzgerald InfoSec's principal consultant Kevin Fitzgerald, has worked in the Information Security area for over 30 years. His interest in “computer security” as it was known, began in 1970, while managing the computer centre at Footscray Institute of Technology - now Victoria University. Kevin was a trained accountant and was bewildered at the absence of controls in the emerging business systems being applied. It was as a Business school academic at Caulfield Institute of Technology - now Monash University - in 1975, that he really started his commitment to this area. He founded the Computer Abuse Research Bureau in 1978 which among other things collected statistics on computer related crime, ran workshops and conferences, and he became a regular speaker at service clubs and a commentator in all media on Computer Abuse.


In 1980 he started his own business consulting in computer abuse and it became so successful that he was taken-over by a Texas firm, Total Assets Protection in 1987. Subsequently Kevin worked in senior positions at DMR Consulting, 1989 – 1994 as Principal Consultant, Computer Security, and KPMG Consulting, 1994 – 2002 as Director, Information Security. In 2002 Kevin returned to his own business now titled Fitzgerald InfoSec.

It was also in 1980 that he commenced his journal Computer Control Quarterly which was eventually taken over by Emerald Publishing in UK in 1992 as Information Management and Computer Security retaining Kevin Fitzgerald as editor. Kevin retired from the editor's role at Emerald after the last 2007 edition completing 26 years at the helm.