Oleg Vornik is a local CEO with a broad global view. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, he was spending six months of the year travelling the world to sell his company DroneShield's counter-drone technology to Australian allies. Although international border closures have kept the 39-year-old in Australia since, Sydney-based DroneShield has continued to export amid rising global demand for counter-drone technology. “We are dealing with a new class of a threat, which is very dangerous,” he told SBS News. Oleg Vornik with one of the counter-drone devices. SBS/Sandra Fulloon Commercial drones are readily available, and authorities across the world fear terror groups could modify the devices as weapons against military or civilian targets.