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Benjamin Ang is a Senior Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), an autonomous Singapore graduate school and policy-oriented think tank within the Nanyang Technological University.


Jane started her career in Canada after graduating from Electrical and Computer Engineering studies, and worked in the City of London for 10 years consulting for Corporates and Banks, before relocating back to Singapore. er experience included using data predictive analytics for fraud at global financial institutions (Deustche Bank, JP Morgan) and advisory to financial institutions with PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

Tony Campbell is a Security Architect and Editor of the Australian Cyber Security Magazine (ACSM) – in the lead up to Issue 6 of the ACSM we discuss the business and board applications of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Essential 8 cybersecurity strategies and how these can be applied and inform the business and board of directors.


Interview with Alex Dolan (@dolesification) and #Osprey (Michael) in their roles as facilitators of the #BSidesPerth Capture the Flag #CTF competition held at BSides Perth in September 2018.

We sit down with Anton Opperman, CEO of CyLon at ICE71. CyLon is the world’s leading cybersecurity accelerator. Since launching in London in 2015 CyLon has run several accelerator programmes, successfully accelerating over 50 cybersecurity startups, many of which are now working with major global corporations, governments and world-leading investors. CyLon is working in partnership with Singtel Innov8 and NUS Enterprise to deliver the ICE71 Inspire and ICE71 Accelerate programmes.

Interview with Ricki Burke and Sarah Young, co-organisers AllSec Meetups in Melbourne and we dive into Ricki’s @BsidesPer Workshop and Sarah’s SecDevSecOpsSec session.

In the last of our Data Centre podcast series with DCD, we conclude in Singapore with Prof. Greg Sherry, General Director/ Professor, DCPRO Development and CEO of VARceti.

This interview with Dr. Keyun Ruan dives into her research in identifying the value of ‘cyber’ in business, establishing traceability for better risk management, analyzing the attacker’s role in cyber risk and the outlook for the future of cyber risk quantification.

Invisible, inaudible, and ignored, your devices are currently screaming out large amounts of information about you, your habits, your pattern of life to anyone who cares to listen. ‘Stephen’, who hails from the South Pacific and exported to the financial services sector in Singapore, presented at #BSidesPerth to demonstrate how to listen in, what is commonly being broadcast, what can be done with this information, and how you can minimise the risks.


BSides Perth is organised by three mates with a collective ‘lot’ of years in the InfoSec industry… doles (Alex Dolan), nidogski (Nigel Hardy) and sneaky (Peter Yorke) – here’s their perspective on BSides and the massive effort required to put a community driven conference together.