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Interview with Professor Dali Kaafar, Chief Scientist at Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub and Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. Professor Kaafar and Macquarie University Lecturer Hassan Jameel Asghar, released a paper mid February, titled, ‘Averaging Attacks on Bounded Perturbation Algorithms’ that identifies and demonstrates a vulnerability of the Perturbation Algorithm used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for its online tool, TableBuilder, that enables querying the Australian Census Data.


Recorded in St Leonards, NSW, Sunil Sharma, Digital Risk & Cybersecurity Leader with GHD Digital provides insight into the firm’s digital and cybersecurity services, predominantly delivered to industry, resources, mining and critical infrastructure such as Energy, Water and Transport sectors. With increasing data analytics capability, the importance of cybersecurity and network protection rises accordingly and adherence to the Australian Critical Infrastructure Act or Singapore’s Cybersecurity Act. With 10,000 staff across the world, GHD Digital is a leading consultant and engineering firm at the forefront of a digitally transforming industry mindset and regulatory environment.

This interview starts with a book review but dives into Peter’s long and fascinating journey, starting as the CEO of the Internet Industry Association in 1997 and through to his observations of today’s contemporary cyber environment and potential for the next cyber crisis – including an existential threat with an apparent escalating Cyber War between the major powers of USA and China.

First of the year catch up with Shamane Tan, organiser of the Cyber Risk Meetup events in Australia and Singapore. We discuss the recent CISO Town Hall Twitter event and the key takeways from CISOs around the world, upcoming event with the Australian Information Security Association on February 20 in Sydney discussing Prudential Standard CPS 234 and Open Group FAIR (now a Sold Out event) and Cyber Risk Meetups scheduled in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Singapore from February through to October.

In this interview we speak with MobileIron’s Frédéric Gillant, Vice President Sales Asia-Pacific and Jonathan Andresen Senior Director, Marketing, Asia-Pacific.

In this episode we sit down with Lenovo’s Australia and New Zealand Managing Director, Matt Codrington, alongside the company’s General Manager, Asia Pacific SMB Segment, Takeshi Okuma.

Vlad Vyshnivetskyy is the Cyber Security Program Lead at AC3. AC3 is an Australian owned, operated Managed Services Provider, including Managed Security Services.

As ‘dark data’ becomes an increasingly important topic, corporations are being forced to think about the way they use data more effectively. With the new year underway, many marketing plans are looking to solve this problem of ‘untapped data’ and applying MarTech.

In this special interview with Toan Trinh, Fortinet’s Consulting Systems Engineer for Australia and New Zealand, we deep dive into Australia’s Notifiable Data Breach legislation, which takes effect as of February 22, 2018 and the correlation to the Fortinet Threat Landscape Report for Q3, 2017.


nterview with Annemarie Diepenbroek, Product Manager, Honeywell and David Francis, Managing Director, Head of APAC, Head of ANZ, Virtual Method, Zappar, Realwear.