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This is a special podcast recording of a Consultant Roundtable hosted by HID Global, as a forum in which senior Australian consultants share their thoughts on industry trends around smart buildings and mobility. This discussion includes insights and experience on the evolution of end-user requirements, comments on industry best practices, and general expectations of what makes a smart solution design.


Interview with HID Global’s Vice President and Managing Director of Physical Access Control, Harm Radstaak, based in the Netherlands. HID Global is a world leader in access control systems for secure physical access, network login, and safeguarding assets. The discussion covers the global and Asia Pacific markets, convergence of technologies, including connectivity, workplace optimisation and area governance with mobile authentication. Mobile authentication is the process by which a system, supporting mobile connectivity, verifies the identity of the user or other system who desires access via a mobile credential.


Red Piranha is an Australian enterprise and Australia’s only dedicated next generation firewall manufacturer (Unified Threat Management solutions) and one of only a handful of Australian-owned and operated businesses building cyber security technology.


Sundar Viswanathan, head of digital solutions at Fuijtsu Australia New Zealand introduces Fujitsu and discusses the suite of solutions, including Fujitsu’s geospatial big data platform, SpatiOWL.


Having caught up with Sam Zavaglia, Senior Engineer with Seagate in Melbourne for the Security Expo 2018 we were really impressed with his level of insight into the Seagate range. We met up in Sydney to discuss the Seagate hard drive range and the technical aspects of how these hard drives are optimised for DVRs and NVRs and tuned for 24×7 workloads in capacities up to 10TB.


In this episode, Bruce Matthews, Director of the Melbourne Joint Cyber Security Centre speaks to Morry Morgan about the JCSC and highlights the framework and partnerships within the national security community, as well as showcasing a range of stakeholders and activities that the centre is involved with, and also citing the PageUp breach as an example.


In this episode Morry Morgan visited the ‘Security Exhibition & Conference’ in Melbourne #Security2018 and met a number of Exhibitors providing facial recognition solutions. Canadian company, Senstar, highlights white and black lists, as well as the use of facial recognition for both security and retail sales.


In this interview, we discuss how Data Mining techniques and machine learning algorithms can be extremely useful when applied in covert channel detection and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) detection.


This interview with DAVCOR Group Managing Director Marc Cohen discusses the business decision process around the introduction of the AutoStore Robot warehouse, which resulted in impacts on business efficiencies, cost savings in warehouse space and inspired the use of robotics in other aspects of the business, including the use of two Universal Robot arms for cycle testing on locking mechanisms. Payback on the AutoStore system is less than two years on rental space alone, including 75% reduction in power usage.


In this interview we speak to Fergus Hanson, co-author with Tom Uren of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) Policy Brief #3: Australia’s Offensive Cyber Capability and we discuss the launch and implications of Policy Brief #4 Deterrence In Cyberspace – Spare the costs, spoil the bad state actor by Chris Painter. Recorded at the Australian Computer Society, Sydney,Friday 1 June 2018.