Niel Chapman
Chief Information Security Officer | Founder
Niel Chapman is CyberGrape's founding CISO, with over 30 years in cybersecurity spanning the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. He's built and run security infrastructure and risk programmes at enterprise scale, and founded CyberGrape to bring that same rigour to small and medium businesses — without the enterprise price tag or timeline. Niel is a CISSP-certified security professional (ISC2), an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, a Proofpoint Certified Identity Threat Specialist and has completed the CrowdStrike Champions security professional programme . He writes about practical, affordable cyber security for SMBs across Australia and New Zealand.
- SMB1001 Certification, sponsored by CrowdStrike (18 Sept 2026)
- SMB1001 Certification Is a Snapshot. Your Business Keeps Moving. (16 July 2026)
- SMB1001 Compliance shouldn't feel like a second job. Here's how we fixed that. (13 July 2026)
- SMB1001 certification for small business: why the CyberGrape platform is the obvious choice (5 July 2026)
- Why Cyber Security Should Matter to Your SMB (2 July 2026)
- Discover the Dynamic Standards International: Pioneering SMB Security Certification (27 May 2026)
- NZ cyber firm CyberGrape moves headquarters to QLD (23 May 2026)