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This weekly podcast catches up on recent industry events, including CIVSEC 2018 in Melbourne, CeBit Australia in Sydney and NetEvents Global Press and Analyst Summit in San Jose California. We also attended the launch of the Cyber Deterrence Report by Chris Painter of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and sponsored by the Australian Computer Society.


Rob Wainwright, former Executive Director at Europol, gave an earlier presentation at Cebit Australia. His presentation, ‘Data – the new oil in the network economy fighting crime and terrorism’, highlighted a different age to come. Rob termed this ‘International Policing 2.0’, along with the AI race with crime, security by design and privacy by design.


It is clear we weren’t sure where to start or close this conversation, but Liesl Yearsley, CEO & Founder of akin.com, grabbed it and has created a profoundly informative and eye opening discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Liesl provides the highest level of insight. This is a live body of work that we will develop more, with reports from a number of events and interviews in Australia, Silicon Valley and LA.


In this interview, Chris Cubbage talks to Jeff Paine, CEO and Founder of ResponSight, a three year old Australian start-up that elevates enterprises away from focusing on technology alone, and looks at the link between the technology and user. Statistical and telemetry based, ResonSight has a lightweight footprint in its risk analytics and risk profiling outcomes that help enterprises make decisions.


On location at National Manufacturing Week, Sydney Olympic Park, Martin Keetals, National Business Manager for Robotics and Marc Brandon, Marketing Manager for 3D Printing & Robotics provided insights into the fast-developing 3D printer systems, including the release of the ‘Figure 4’ scalable DLP system, the convergence of technologies in material sciences, computer processing and market demand for cost saving and high productivity systems, including robotics.


Futurist Skeeve Stevens provides his technical insights into what he describes as the future of now – or your future. With a technical mindset Skeeve considers not only what criminals or terrorists may plot, with enabling technology, but also lone wolves, the disgruntled or disenfranchised or the student and child. With reference to home-made laser weapons, synthetic drugs and hackable building management systems, Skeeve uses his insights and experience, including as a former hacker, to raise awareness of not just the vulnerabilities of the future but the vulnerabilities of today.


Professor Clive Williams, Centre for Security and Military Law at the Australian National University has been a staple provider of research into national security and counter terrorism for many years.

Whilst in Sydney presenting to the 2nd Annual Security, Safety & Counter Terrorism Forum, former NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas gave insight into his current role as Director of Internal Oversight at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), covering Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank. Nick is responsible for audits and investigations on behalf of the agency, as well as ethics, compliance and evaluation programs, all while operating within war and conflict zones.


An insightful discussion with Akamai’s Fernando Serto, Head of Security Technology & Strategy and James Tin, Principal Enterprise Security Architect each working in the Asia Pacific & Japan region. Following Fernando’s Summit presentation – ‘Securing the modern enterprise with a modern approach’, Fernando outlines Akamai’s enterprise security solutions, with a focus on secure application access. We also discuss the Akamai 2018 State of the Internet Report, dive into current trends around Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and enterprise security architecture requirements.


Recorded before a live audience at the Australian Cyber Security Centre Conference, Canberra, 12 April, 2018 this is an in-depth and highly informative panel discussion on Women in Cyber Security.