Secured by Galah Cyber with Cole Cornford

As a consultant, Laura Bell-Main earned a reputation for being “the Mary Poppins of security”, swooping in to fix problems with her big bag of tricks. More recently, she made the leap from consulting into founding a product company, securing funding from VC firm Blackbird with the aim of building SafeStack into an online training platform that can help orgs of all sizes design secure software. In...

Ken Johnson is co-founder of Dryrun Security and co-host of the Apsolute AppSec podcast. Ken has many years experience working in AppSec in a variety of roles, including CTO of nVisium and Application Security Engineer at GitHub. Ken chats with Cole Cornford about taking an agnostic approach to AppSec, transitioning from being an employee to a founder, how AI might change cybersecurity, and plenty...

In the latest episode of Secured, Cole Cornford chats with Iain Dickson, Full Spectrum Cyber Practice Lead at Leidos Australia, a technology company working across defence, aviation and national security. Iain is also the co-founder of ComfyCon, an online cyber security conference which was started in response to the many event cancellations caused by the 2020 covid lockdowns.  Iain chats wit...

Ian Yip is the founder and CEO of Avertro, a venture backed startup that creates software to help teams manage and measure their cybersecurity performance. In this episode Cole Cornford spoke with Ian about how being a salesperson is a valuable skill for any security professional, the common fallacy in software of “if you build it, they will come”, the similarities between starting a company and h...

Formerly a software engineer, today Edwin Kwan is Head of Application Security and Advisory at Tyro Payments. Edwin is also a contributing journalist to the It’s 5:05 Podcast, which highlights cybersecurity and open source software news.  Host Cole Cornford chats with Edwin about transitioning from focusing on the nitty gritty challenges of an engineer to the very different challenges of over...

In this bonus episode, Cole Cornford chats with Toby Amodio, Chief Information Security Officer at the Department of Parliamentary Services, about the latest update of the Information Security Manual, ahead of its release in early July. The Information Security Manual is a great reference for anyone looking to understand what threats the government is looking to address, and where the cybersecurit...

After beginning her career as a management consultant, Sheena Peeters has worked in a variety of roles within tech and cybersecurity, including founding her own startup, and executing digital strategies for companies like NAB and Australia Post in key management positions. Sheena chats with Cole Cornford about aligning cybersecurity strategy with business strategy, fostering a culture of shared re...

Shubham Shah is co-founder and CTO of Assetnote, a cybersecurity tool used by companies like Atlassian, Qantas, and Australia Post. Shubham’s career in cybersecurity had very humble beginnings: he first learned to hack computer games as a kid so he could beat his brother. Shubham chats with Cole Cornford about video game exploits and what they can teach us about appsec, bug bounty hunting, the cha...

Riki Blok is a management recruitment consultant who specialises in cybersecurity. Riki heads up a team of recruitment consultants at the employment agency Talenza, filling positions in security, infrastructure, dev ops and cloud. This role gives him a unique perspective on the cybersecurity industry, and in his conversation with host Cole Cornford, Riki shares his insights on what companies are l...

Trevor Hancock has enjoyed a decades long career as a cybersecurity consultant, and today is Specialist Director at Deloitte. Trevor is most motivated by projects that make a meaningful difference in people’s day to day lives, and throughout his career he’s had the opportunity to work on several large scale projects that touch the lives of thousands of Australians. In his conversation with host Co...

Summary After years of working as a software developer, Nina Juliadotter was reading headlines about data breaches at major companies. She was horrified to think developers like herself might be leaving vulnerabilities that made these breaches possible. This inspired Nina to study for a Masters in Cybersecurity, and has focused on improving application security ever since. Today, Nina is Westpac’s...

Toby Amodio is the Chief Information Security Officer at the Department of Parliamentary Services. As Toby puts it himself, he’s probably the only CISO with a “feminist degree”, having studied politics, history and gender studies. His career advancement has been unusually fast for the field of cybersecurity, progressing from a university graduate to his current role in just 15 years. In his conver...

“Secured” is the podcast for software security enthusiasts. Host Cole Cornford sits down with Australia’s top software security experts to uncover their unconventional career paths and the challenges they faced along the way. Listen in as they share their insights on the diverse approaches to AppSec, company by company, and how each organisation’s security needs are distinct and require personalis...