Speakers

Brian Brushwood is an American magician, podcaster, author, lecturer and comedian. Brushwood is known for the series Scam School, a show where he teaches the audience e...

Katie Moussouris is a noted authority on vulnerability disclosure and bug bounties, and the founder and CEO of Luta Security, a company that specializes in process impr...

Darren Kitchen is the founder of Hak5, an Internet television show inspiring hackers and IT pros since 2005. Breaking out of the 1990s phone phreak scene, Darren has continued to foster his passion fo...

Kayne is a technologist and the Managing Director at Cosive. He has previously been a Systems Administrator, a government Anti-Spam enforcer/botnet fighter, a bank threat intelligence manager and a pe...

Adam has over 10 years recruitment experience within global and boutique Technology recruitment agencies in Australia. In this time he has built an impressive national network of contacts and talent t...

Alex Tilley currently serves as a senior security researcher within Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit Research Team. A highly awarded cybercrime researcher, Tilley was at the forefront of research...

Alexi is an information security specialist with 6 years experience in the IT industry. As a web application developer and subsequent project manager, Alexi developed an eclectic mix of technical and ...

Alison O’Hare is the Technical Director at Mimecast, based in the Melbourne office. Allison is in charge of all things technical for both pre- and post-sales. Her primary responsibility is finding s...

Andy is the CEO and Co-Founder of RedShield Security, with staff and customers in New Zealand, Australia, USA and UK. On the tech-side he's a seasoned software developer, pen-tester and security resea...

Detective Senior Constable Ben Johnson is an Investigator currently assigned to Cyber and Identity Crime within the Financial and Cyber Crime Group.

Detective Johnson has recently joine...

After 21 years of classified intelligence work for the US Air Force, Brad transitioned to cyber security in 2010, and he is a currently a Threat Intelligence Analyst for Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. Br...

Brett Callaughan, Senior Engineer at Malwarebytes has over 10 years of experience fighting malware front-on and behind the scenes. Brett was appointed Senior System Engineer for Malwarebytes in Austra...

Chris Archimandritis is an Information Security researcher and professional with over 10 years of academic and professional experience in information security.

Chris is a mobile platf...

Chris Gatford is the Founder and Director of HackLabs in Sydney, Australia and performs penetration tests for organisations all around the world.  Chris has reviewed countless IT environments and ha...

Craig is Co-Founder and Chief Apiarist (CEO) of Hivint and SecurityColony. Craig has over 15 years of experience in the security industry, working in the finance, government, telecommunications and in...

After many years of deploying existing Application Whitelisting technologies in enterprise organisations, Co-founder David Cottingham became frustrated at how difficul...

David has worked in the professional lines area of insurance since 1995, working for a number of brokers, underwriting agencies and insurers. Joining Liberty in 2008, David spearheaded the launch o...

David has been involved in the security industry for the last 18 years. During this time he has found many high-impact and novel vulnerabilities, handled security response for dozens of open source pr...

Dean is the Managing Partner at Clyde & Co in Australia with over 25 years of legal experience. He initially gained his insurance and reinsurance experience in London and moved to Australia in 199...

Hinne Hettema is the tactical security operations leader at Ports of Auckland. His strengths are in SOC enablement, intelligence and incident response, as well as intelligence driven security operatio...

Dr. Jim Treinen is Carbon Black’s Vice President of Threat. A security industry veteran with 15 years of experience, Jim is based in Boulder, Colorado, and is responsible for original threat researc...

Mark Carey-Smith has held various information security roles for the past 19 years. Mark’s experience includes systems administration, mentoring, training, architecture, incident response and resear...

Michael Cohen has over 15 years of experience in applying and developing novel incident response and digital forensics tools and techniques. He has previously worked in the Australian Department of De...

Dr. Vanessa Douglas-Savage is a consulting director at GWI who specialises in information privacy, security, and data exchange. Vanessa’s superpower is making the complex simple, and asking the righ...

Edward Farrell is an independent information security consultant who specialises in penetration testing and incident response. In addition to starting up his own security practice, Edward is an avid p...

Professor William J (Bill) Caelli, AO is an Emeritus Professor of the Queensland University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. He has over 53 years industry, research and e...

Eric has been breaking things just to fix them again since he was five, at 20, he spent his summer evenings working the door in a nightclub, and reading tarot cards during the day. He didn’t realise...

Fergus Brooks is the National Practice Leader, Cyber Risk at Aon Australia. With more than 23 years commercial and consulting experience in the information, communications and technology (ICT) sector,...

Frank Walsh, VP of Solution Architecture joined Malwarebytes in 2016. His responsibilities include the management of Malwarebytes' Global Sales Engineering Team and all enterprise security integration...

Fritz is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at NSS Labs. He has been in the security industry for more than 5 years. He has published numerous papers on Formal Concept...

Garry Barnes, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC
ISO/IEC27001 LI (PECB) ISO27001 LA (PECB)
Practice Lead, Governance Advisory at Vital Advisory.

Garry has twenty-five years o...

Gary is a security risk management specialist with 24years in the information security field. His career started as a technologist in security development and system/network administration. Since 1997...

Graeme Edwards has been an investigator in the Financial and Cyber Crime Group in Brisbane for the past twelve years. He has conducted numerous investigations into cyber and financial crime, its effec...

Jayendra Pathak, Chief Architect and Head of Offensive research, brings a wealth of expertise in malware, phishing, and exploit analysis. Jayendra and his team maintain a comprehensive database of thr...

Jeff Zupan is the Director of Product Security at One Identity, responsible for ensuring appropriate security practices and controls are employed throughout the development, delivery, and support of t...

John Bambenek is Vice-President of Security Research and Intelligence at ThreatSTOP where he leads the globally distributed research efforts for the company. In addition to his role there, he is a ...

John has extensive experience advising organisations operating across Australia, regionally and globally in response to a range of cyber incidents including high profile data breaches, denial of servi...

Mr Santarsieri is a founder partner at Vicxer where he utilizes his 12+ years of experience in the security industry, to bring top notch research into the ERP (SAP / Oracle) world. He is engaged in a ...

Kay is an IT law specialist. She is experienced in providing advice and assistance with negotiating and drafting technology-centric contracts, and advising on intellectual property matters. She hol...

Keisuke Muda is an analyst of the Security Operation Center at Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ), an Internet service provider company in Japan. As a member of IIJ SOC, he analyzes logs sent from v...

Kelly Shortridge is currently a Product Manager at SecurityScorecard, the security risk management platform. In her spare time, she researches applications of behavioral economics and behavioral game ...

Kirk Jackson is a Security Researcher at RedShield, where he analyses security vulnerabilities in customer applications and comes up with a plan to protect them. He organises the Wellington OWASP Chap...

Detective Sergeant Kris STEADMAN has extensive experience working in law enforcement. The majority of Detective Sergeants STEADMAN’s service has been spent as an investigator with regional Criminal ...

Leon is an experienced ICT professional specialising in cyber security, cloud and technology risk advisory services. He has more than 20 years’ experience delivering a wide range of business and IT ...

Matthew Pokarier specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution defending directors and companies, and advising on professional indemnity claims for a wide range of professionals for the ...

Melissa specialises in information security culture programs. Her mission is to improve the security culture of her client organisations through effective education, change management and behaviour re...

Michael Hamm has worked for more than 10 years as Ingenieur-Security in the field of classical Computer and Network Security (Firewall, VPN, AntiVirus) at the research center “Henry Tudor” in Luxe...

Michael is the Practice Manager at HackLabs in Melbourne, where he manages a team of penetration testers, helping provide technical assurance and guidance to some of Australia's best-known brands. READ BIO

Mike is the Operations Manager at AusCERT; which is a leading Cyber Emergency Response Team for Australia and provides information security advice to its members, including the higher education sector...

Nick Savvides is Symantec’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Pacific region. As the CTO, Nick is responsible for the portfolio strategy and innovation roadmap for Symantec within Australia, Ne...

Nicole is code-blooded, an Electrical Engineer and a Director in the Intellectual Property and Information Security Teams at Bennett & Philp Lawyers. She is a Director of AISA and auDA.   ...

Nik is responsible for helping organisations build on their security strategy throughout the APAC Region by making humans “part of the solution” in every company, in dealing with cyber threats. Wi...

Noushin Shabab is a cyber security researcher based in Melbourne Australia specialising in reverse engineering and targeted attack investigations. She joined Kaspersky Lab in 2016 as a senior secur...

Patrick is a trusted corporate adviser on Professional, Executive and Cyber risk. Valued for market leading and pragmatic advice relating to the complex risk landscape being negotiated by corporate Au...

Peter Wesley is a security researcher based in Shenzhen, China, where he runs a consultancy specializing in product security services. He has over 20 years experience in IT security, predominately in ...

Phil currently manages security operations and incident response for the University of Queensland, as well as providing support to the AusCERT operations team. He has a diverse background, having prev...

Piero DePaoli leads product marketing for ServiceNow Security and Risk which includes its Security Operations and Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions.  Piero has more than 20 years’ experien...

Reece advises on a wide range of insurance issues, acting for both local and London insurers in professional indemnity, financial lines and directors & officers claims, in defence and as coverage ...

Rob has been a police officer since 2008 and is currently an investigator within the Financial and Cyber Crime Group at Queensland police headquarters, Brisbane. Detective Thomson has worked in severa...

Sarwar works as an Application Security Engineer at Microsoft India. He participates in Bug Bounty programs and is listed among top 10 Security Researchers in 2016 (BugCrowd and Synack Leaderboards). ...

Sebastian is a Software Engineer specializing in the development of offensive security tools, namely the WiFi Pineapple and LAN Turtle. He is a regular speaker on wireless security at conferences incl...

Shusei Tomonaga is a member of the Analysis Center of JPCERT/CC. Since December 2012, he has been engaged in malware analysis and forensics investigation, and is especially involved in analyzing incid...

Simon is an Information Security Professional with nearly 20 years of Information Security-releated Academic Research, Business Consulting and Management experience. He is currently employed as an En...

Stefanie Luhrs advises professional services firms in relation to their data protection and privacy obligations and acts for a number of Australian and international cyber insurance on incident respon...

Steve Clement is a security engineer at the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg since its inception in 2008. Experienced in the security of Unix systems like Linux or OpenBSD, his passions...

Tennessee Leeuwenburg is the head of secure coding at the Bureau of Meteorology and a software engineer by background. He is currently working on improving the technologies which are securing the soft...

Todd Truitt brings over 20 years of engineering experience to his role as Director of Systems Engineering at Illumio where he helps customers understand benefits of and connect with Illumio solutions....

Troy Hunt is an independent Australian infosec professional and the creator of the data breach notification service "Have I Been Pwned". He's a Microsoft Regional Director and Most Valuable Profession...

Vladimir is a senior product security engineer and security researcher working with Twilio across a large selection of technologies and systems.

These range from critical infrastruct...

Wayne Tufek is currently a Director of CyberRisk (www.cyber-risk.com.au). For over 20 years he has formulated pragmatic, business driven strategies to establish, execute and improve cyber risk managem...

William J. “Bill” Britton is the Vice President for Information Technology, Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Cybersecurity Center Director at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis O...

Zak Siddiqui is the Co-Founder at KELSIEM based in Sydney, Australia. He spends his time helping companies define and achieve their security goals using next-gen...