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William Gooderson is a high-performance coach and speaker who has worked across Australia and the Asia Pacific region providing coaching and workshops to multiple public and private sector organisations. He focuses on training around personal well-being, building resilience in self and others, leading high performing teams in complex environments, and overcoming cultural challenges in the workplac...

Peter Bauer is the CEO, Co-founder and Board Member at Mimecast, which he launched in 2003 with fellow Board Member and Co-founder, Neil Murray. He is the visionary behind Mimecast’s SaaS strategy, which empowers businesses across the globe with comprehensive cyber resilience for email. Mimecast’s security, archiving, business continuity and risk mitigation products and services are all delivered...

Kevin is a CISO leader in the Australian Digital Banking sector and a seasoned information security veteran in the financial services industry.  Kevin’s practical approach to Cyber Security is often seen as pushing the boundaries and balance between user centric design and effective controls. Kevin began his career as an academia researcher in the late 90s, an educator, and a security engineer, sl...

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 3,051+ vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents. He was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and Washington Post Best Seller, Th...

Glen Pendley is chief technology officer (CTO) at Tenable, where he is responsible for driving the company’s long-term vision, strategy and continued product innovation. Glen has over 20 years of experience in the industry and deep roots leading cutting-edge engineering, research and product teams for global cybersecurity brands. Before his role as CTO, Glen served as Tenable’s deputy CTO and seni...

Adam P. Henry is a cyber security thought leader, published author, international speaker and executive. He has developed research and programs focused on addressing the education, skills and workforce gaps, cyber disaster response/resilience, and cyber warfare. His research and initiatives have focused on developing strategies and effective responses to these key issues. He is Senior Advisor at t...

Lori MacVittie is Principal Technical Evangelist, Office of the CTO, for application security and delivery company, F5. She and F5 CTO, Geng Lin, recently published their book, ‘ Enterprise Architecture for Digital Business ’, which outlines how to modernise IT for a digital-first world. The book clarifies why companies struggle with digital transformation, and what it takes to transform IT to bec...

Ryan has almost 10 years’ experience within the Cyber Security and IT space. With a lifelong love of IT and Cyber Security, Ryan built his career with the goal of exposing himself to as many environments and unique technologies as possible, preparing himself for a successful pivot into the Cyber Security space. After pivoting in 2020, Ryan quickly grew into the role of Head of Cyber Security (APAC...

In this episode, Satnam explores the dangers of pig butchering scams, which are a type of investment fraud that typically involve romance and human trafficking, originating in Southeast Asia. He discusses elaborate scams using romance platforms, and how criminals use stolen images of real women to present themselves as real people. He also explores the dangers of online dating scams and the reperc...

Jane Frankland is an award-winning leader, best-selling author, speaker and change agent. Through her company, collaborations and partnerships, Jane is solving the problem of making women standard in male dominated industries like cyber, as she believes if you’re short on women, you are less safe, happy and prosperous.  Having spent over two decades in cybersecurity, Jane has become one of the ind...

As leader of Fivecast, Brenton is responsible for driving innovation in the security industry through the application of world leading data science techniques to the field of open-source intelligence (OSINT). Brenton was formerly CTO of the Data To Decisions CRC, a $100 million collaborative research initiative to address data analysis challenges facing Australia’s national security agencies. This...

Liam RYAN is the CEO of GM Risk Group, a Intelligence Solutions and High Risk Consultancy firm with its Head Office in Australia and entities in both The US and Netherlands. He  has 15 + years industry experience ranging from operational surveillance, close personal protection and logistics in high risk and conflict zones around the globe, to executive security and risk management, corporate advis...

Helen Hamilton-James has over 28 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services to clients across many sectors in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the UK. Having started her career as a graduate in Deloitte’s London office, Helen moved to Sydney in 1997 as part of a global development program. Since becoming Partner in 2004, Helen has held multiple leadership roles including Office M...

Stephen is a proven sales and business leader with over 15 years’ experience in cloud-based IT. He has led high growth businesses in both North America and ANZ from small to enterprise software organisations His passion and ability to recruit, motivate and lead extraordinary teams is the key to consistently exceeding business goals. His leadership style is a transparent and consultative approach t...

Mike Johnson joined Fastly as Chief Information Security Officer in 2019 and has more than 20 years’ experience in the security industry having previously been CISO at Lyft and at Salesforce for nine years where his leadership was instrumental in building and growing the company’s detection and response organisation. At Fastly, Mike is focused on supporting the company’s mission to build a more tr...

Mark Guntrip leads cybersecurity strategy at Menlo Security. He brings over twenty years experience in the enterprise security market where, through a range of roles including engineering, product management and product marketing. He has a proven track record of building success in new markets as well as promoting growth within more established areas. Prior to Menlo Security, Guntrip held various...

Rosie Anderson has worked in tech recruitment since 2002, and cyber security recruitment for over 7 years. After having a second baby right at the start of the pandemic, she decided to leave a stable career in recruitment and joined a start up recruitment business in Manchester, called Honeypot Digital at the beginning of 2021. Rosie prides herself on being open and transparent, which sometimes me...

ALTON JOHNSON Founder & Principal Security Consultant Alton Johnson is the Founder and Principal Security Consultant for Vonahi Security. Prior to Vonahi Security, Alton worked at several large and small cybersecurity consulting firms as a Principal Security Consultant. Throughout his professional career, he has performed hundreds of security assessments for organizations ranging from small bu...

Thomas Kinsella is the Co-founder and COO of Tines, a no-code automation platform for security teams. Before Tines, Thomas led security teams in companies like Deloitte, eBay, and DocuSign. As COO, Thomas is responsible for customer success, professional services, and more. Thomas has a degree in Management Science and Information Systems Studies from Trinity College in Dublin.

Dave is an accomplished executive with a strong affinity for technology and a keen business sense for the application of emerging solutions. He has a proven talent for identifying core business needs and translating them into outcomes. Prior to joining Haventec, Dave spent ~20 years at Accenture where he occupied a number of geographic leadership, account leadership and delivery leadership roles i...

Elliot Dellys (PCI QSA, CISSP, CISM, CIS LA) is the founder and Chief Realist (CEO) of Phronesis Security, Australia’s first B Corp certified cyber security consultancy, with a mission to do ‘cyber security for good’. Previously, Elliot worked for the Australian Signals Directorate and a global managed service provider, where he led the Strategic Consulting division across the Europe, Middle East...

Shishir Singh is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the BlackBerry Cybersecurity business. A seasoned senior executive, Shishir brings 15+ years of cybersecurity leadership. With his wealth of experience and expertise, Shishir works across the entire organization to set a clear vision roadmap for our next-generation cybersecurity products and services. He engages with ou...

Chrystal Taylor is a dedicated technologist with nearly a decade of experience and has built her career by leveraging curiosity to solve problems, no matter the size, industry, or client. Whether tinkering with the family computer, or inflicting general destruction in MS-DOS Tank Wars, Chrystal has always been a geek. Chrystal is a SolarWinds deployment veteran who’s built a successful IT career b...

Remy is a blue team cyber security expert with a decade of experience in Federal Government, Private Sector, Law Enforcement, and the Military. He holds a Diploma in Networking, and a Diploma in Systems Administration. He is a GIAC certified security leader, ISO 27001 lead auditor, and IRAP assessor #194. Remy has been awarded a commendation for his cyber training programs, commanded the first Arm...

Torsten George is currently a cyber security evangelist at  Absolute Software , which helps organizations establish resilient security controls on endpoints. He also serves as strategic advisory board member at vulnerability risk management software vendor, NopSec. He is an internationally recognized IT security expert, author, and speaker. Torsten has been part of the global IT security community...