Speakers

AusCERT has an unparalleled track-record of hosting the best information security speakers in the world.

Keynote Speakers

Dr Joseph Voros

The Voroscope - Freelance Futurist

Dr Joe is a former theoretical physicist who became a professional futurist, with a brief detour along the way at Netscape Communications back in the Palaeolithic Era of the Interweb. These days he assists people and organisations to think about the future in a disciplined and systematic way to help them prepare for its imminent arrival.

Rachel Tobac

SocialProof Security

Rachel is a hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security where she helps people and companies keep their data safe by training and pentesting them on social engineering risks. Rachel was also 2nd place winner of DEF CON’s wild spectator sport, the Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest, 3 years in a row.

Troy Hunt

Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt is an Australian security researcher and founder of the data breach notification service, Have I Been Pwned.

Main Program and Tutorial Speakers

Jane O’Loughlin

CERT NZ

Jane O’Loughlin is the Manager of the Communications, Engagement and Partnerships function at CERT NZ.

Jess Dodson

Microsoft

Chances are if you’ve run into “GirlGerms” online, you’ve spoken to Jess! Based in Brisbane, Jess joined Microsoft in 2019 and is now a Senior Cloud Solution Architect in Cyber Security, after working in a mixture of both government and higher education industries for over 15 years.

Jesse Keen

Deloitte

Jesse has been testing organisations for years and has performed tests for organisations across Australia.

Jon Robertson

Tarian Cyber

Jon comes with 18 years industry experience throughout multiple domains within the industry including offensive security, SOC operations, SOC architecture and incident response.

Jonathan Topham

Virgin Australia

Jonathan Topham is a crime, intelligence, and security leader with more than 15 years’ success working with multi-disciplinary and multinational teams to produce insights which optimise response, mitigation, and readiness.

Jorell Magtibay

National Australia Bank

A Global award-winner and innovative leader in Cybersecurity, with over 12 years of industry experience, specializing in Cyber Defence and Cyber Threat Intelligence disciplines.

JP Haywood

Acumenis

JP is a Senior Security Consultant and Threat Intelligence Lead at Acumenis, helping organisations identify security risks and implement controls and frameworks to improve their security posture.

Kate Carruthers

UNSW Sydney

Kate Carruthers is currently working at the intersection of data analytics, AI, ML, privacy, data protection, cyber and information security.

Kevin Caballero

x15 Ventures

Introduction coming soon

Kyle Jackson

Go1

Kyle is a developer during nights an weekends and the Information Security Manager for e-learning provider Go1 during the day. Kyle has prevously worked for Octopus Deploy where he built out the Security Operations function.

Kylie Watson

PWC

Kylie has significant experience leading national and international teams to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover on some of the world’s most notable cyber breaches.

Leah Mooney

KPMG Law

Leah is a Director at KPMG Law and is best known for helping organisations to understand cybersecurity and privacy risks and compliance, with a particular focus on data breach incident response, and cybersecurity issues arising in the context of security of critical infrastructure and countering foreign interference.

Mark McPherson

The University of Queensland

I am approaching my third decade as an IT professional, most which has been spent in cybersecurity; having engineered solutions (both technical and procedural) long-before it was considered an industry (joined AusCERT in 1998 and stayed for 12 years).

Matthew Gurr

AWS

Matt is a Security Specialist with the AWS Global Services Security Organisation. In his role, Matt is responsible for a team that provides support to customers during active security events on the customer side of the shared responsibility model.

Meg Tapia

Accenture

Meg Tapia is Principal Director for National Intelligence at Accenture in Canberra. She has a ‘mission-first’ mindset and is passionate about delivering a more secure Australia.

Mike Cohen

Rapid7

Dr. Michael Cohen has over 20 years of experience in applying and developing novel incident response and digital forensics tools and techniques.

Mike Pritchard

Cydarm

Mike has been part of the IT industry over 30yrs, the cyber sector over 10yrs and is keen to use his (ahem) greybeard years to “give back” to the community.

Nick Baker

TechnologyOne

Nick is a security architect who focuses on penetration testing & application security for a large Australian enterprise software company. He has a passion for making secure development simple and repeatable.

Nigel Phair

Monash University

Nigel Phair is an influential analyst on the intersection of technology, crime and society. Nigel has published four acclaimed books on the international impact of cybercrime, is a regular media commentator and provides executive and board advice on strategy, risk & governance of technology.

Oliver Greiter

Deloitte

Oliver has over 20 years experience in the cybersecurity industry across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA, including 7 years working as part of the Cybersecurity team at ANZ.