Thank you for your response. I read that Max and Oliver are planning on hiring an in-house cryptographer:
"18. The weakness of LSK is security, so team have any plans to sign strong security team? (bawga)
Oliver: We have been advised to factor out code security audits to a third party, rather than employ from within. Initially we will request an overall security audit, with follow up audits being performed after significant milestones have been achieved along the roadmap.
We are also planning to employ an in-house cryptographer whose role will be to improve and document the cryptographic elements of Lisk."
Hiring wise, they have said that they intend to start hiring some developers for key areas (security, core devs for front and backend) soon:
"Doweig: Do you have any plans on technical hirings? I mean how many tech people will you need in 6 month or 1 year from now
Max: Definitely! We made the decision to hire local talents in order to increase our efficiency (as we only have so many funds/time, and Lisk is a huge project) to the maximum.
That means starting now, after finally being in Berlin in our office, we can look for further technical employees.
We are definitely looking for 2 core devs and 2 (or more) frontend devs ASAP, but our whole team will grow to about 15 people at the end. With ASAP I mean as soon as possible to help out at urgent construction sides of Lisk."
It does look like they are starting to get things together quite a bit now and it's great that they have a decent office in Berlin to work from. For me personally, I am looking forward to them getting their GmbH status which will enable them to access the ICO funds (14K+ BTC) and start hiring some great talent.
[Sources via Lisk Blog] Lisk Community Technical Meeting Summary — August 13th
https://blog.lisk.io/lisk-community-technical-meeting-summary-august-13th-c958b5f8b0fc#.lcmclrdoc