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.


We are joined by Dr Jed Horner, Strategic Advocacy Manager, Standards Australia discussing the NSW Cybersecurity Taskforce Recommendations and Dr Sushmita Ruj, Senior Research Scientist, Data61 discussing a new data privacy preserving tool fuelled by AI, called Personal Information Factor (PIF).

Interview with Dr Jodie Siganto, a lawyer who accidentally strayed into security about 18 years ago and never been able to get out. Fascinated by what happens at the interface between humans and technology, particularly in the security and data privacy realm. Intrigued by what shapes security practice and our failure to change.


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.


In this interview, Morry Morgan talks to Luke Schibeci of Hatamoto to discuss video analytics and artificial intelligence and the increase in capability for mapping faces across public and corporate spaces. We also discuss the use of deep learning to identify human behaviour, and how privacy legislation affects the advancement in AI systems across Australia.


Bonnie Butlin is the Co-Founder of the Security Partners’ Forum (SPF) & creator of the Women in Security and Resilience Alliance (WISECRA). This interview cover’s Bonnie’s diverse background, global Women in Security initiatives and the changing nature of societal trust around data, privacy and security.