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Field notes on hiring and keeping technical talent in New Zealand — security, cloud, AIOps, and the teams that run the infrastructure.
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The Recruiter Attack: Lazarus Group's Kernel Zero-Day, the NZSIS Threat Assessment, and the Security Practitioners NZ Cannot Replace
North Korea's Lazarus Group spent five weeks exploiting a Windows kernel zero-day via fake LinkedIn job offers before Microsoft patched it on August 11. Three days later, NZSIS published its 2026 Security Threat Environment report naming intensifying nation-state activity across NZ's public and private sectors. The practitioner profile being targeted by Operation Dream Job is the same profile NZ critical infrastructure operators are now legally required to employ.
Every empty seat is burning runway.
Single-point-of-failure teams don't scale. Lexel keeps a vetted bench of DevOps, Cloud, SRE, and security specialists ready to deploy — before the gap becomes an outage.