Alex Webling is the Director of Resilience Outcomes Australia, a consultancy helping business and government meet their strategic challenges in organisational resilience, security governance, privacy and information security.

Alex is Deputy chair of Security Professionals Australasia, a member of the Standards Australia Board on Security and Resilience (MB-025), international rapporteur for resilience on ISO technical committee 292 (Security and Resilience) and an Associate of the Australian Risk Policy Institute.

Previously, Alex was a senior executive in the Australian Government. He was the Foundation Director of the Government computer emergency response team (CERT). As Head of Protective Security Policy responsible for creating the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), he introduced the federal government’s streamlined Personnel Security system and single information classification system.

Tutorial: Leading Cyber Security Assurance

Information security continues to become more complex and specialised. The days of the lone defender able to heroically defend their organisation from all malicious actors are long gone.

Multidisciplinary teams that bring together diverse and complementary talents to defend their organisations in an increasingly difficult threat environment are the best cyber defence.

Effective cyber security leaders need to be the ‘synthesising professional’ able to knit teams together.

This one-day workshop will allow participants to immerse themselves in tactics and strategies that they can use within their organisations whether they are new to the CISO/CSO role or wanting to take themselves to the next level.

Content Outline:

- Tactical vs Strategic Goals
- Building a coalition of support
- People skills
- The three most important team competencies
- Multi-disciplinary teams
- Defining and implementing meaningful metrics
- Biases - our own and others’
- Putting it all together - no alarms and no surprises (getting to boring and repetitive)