Kia ora and welcome to the June 2026 issue of New Zealand Security Magazine. With this issue, we hit the Winter months with the first in a series of changes designed to get your NZ security sector news and analysis to you quicker than ever.
NZSM has typically been published on a bi-monthly (every two months) basis, but from this issue onwards the magazine will now be published monthly!
That’s right! We’ve made the move from six magazines per year to twelve.
This means that each issue of the magazine will be shorter than the previous benchmark length of 48 pages, but they will be more frequent so that you don’t have to wait a whole two months between issues.
View or download the 28-page full-colour e-magazine online…
Another change you’ll notice with this issue is that each of its articles will be available to read simultaneously in the magazine as well as on the Defsec website as individual article posts. You choose how you wish to engage with our content.
Consequentially, you can also expect the frequency of our e-newsletters to increase. If you don’t subscribe to THE BRIEF already, I recommend that you visit www.defsec.net.nz to sign up!
Leading this latest edition of NZSM is an update to an article we publish each year on how to write a good nomination for the New Zealand Security Awards. As a former awards judge, I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of nominations, so this article serves as a guide to submitting a compliant and competitive nomination that does justice to your nominee.
In the latest editorial offering from the good folk at ICARAS Security Consultants, we’re provided a master class on what John Wick and the New Zealand Government’s Protective Security Requirements (PSR) have in common. It’s funny stuff, but it makes good sense too – and that’s the beauty of it. You won’t look at the PSR the same way again!
Also in this issue, recent International Security Ligue research out of Europe analyses the raw data of 40,000+ bid announcements and contract awards for security personnel services, finding that tender processes continue to prioritise lowest-cost bids over quality, capability, and long-term value. A race to the bottom. Sounds familiar?
If New Zealand wants to meaningfully address image-based sexual abuse in the age of generative AI, we have to go further than criminalising it. That’s what Dr Cassandra Mudgway from the University of Canterbury, argues in her piece that explores the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill currently before Parliament.
Plenty more commentary and news in this issue of NZSM, including career milestones for Su Kaur and others, OSPAs finalists, a birthday for Inception, a win for Nextro, SecTech, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Keep safe.
Nicholas Dynon, Lincoln.
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