AusCERT has an unparalleled track-record of hosting the best information security speakers in the world.

Watch this list grow as we present the speakers for AusCERT2021.

Keynote Speakers

Adam Spencer
MC

Author, Comedian, Maths Geek … Adam Spencer has been a breakfast radio announcer on Triple J and ABC Sydney, tv personality on everything from comedies Good News Week and The Glasshouse to weekly sports wrap the Back Page and is a member of the Sleek Geeks Science Team with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. A lifelong numbers […]

READ BIO
Ciaran Martin
University of Oxford

Ciaran Martin is the founding CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre and now a Professor at the University of Oxford. Ciaran Martin founded the UK’s world leading National Cyber Security Centre and headed it for the first four years of its existence. Currently, after stepping down from his role with NCSC at the end […]

READ BIO
James Young, Jess Dodson, Casey Ellis, Anthony Kitzelmann
Various

What does a security transformation strategy look like and how can SOAR help Security teams are continually faced with increasing and diverse pressures. This is evident now more than ever before. If it is not the ever evolving threat landscape, business or digital transformation initiatives, limited resources and budgets, there is nothing like throwing a […]

READ BIO
Maddie Stone
Google Project Zero

Maddie Stone is a Security Researcher on Google Project Zero where she focuses on 0-days actively exploited in-the-wild. Maddie works on detecting, analyzing, and learning from these exploits. Previously, she was a reverse engineer and team lead on the Android Security team. Her team was responsible for finding, analyzing, and protecting users from malware. Maddie […]

READ BIO

Main Program and Tutorial Speakers

Abhay Bhargav
we45

Abhay Bhargav is the Founder of we45 and Chief Research Officer of AppSecEngineer, a focused Application Security Company and elite ...

READ BIO
Alex Webling
Resilience Outcomes Australia

Alex Webling is the Director of Resilience Outcomes Australia, a consultancy helping business and government meet their strategic ...

READ BIO
Alvin Lung
Google Cloud Security (VirusTotal)

Alvin is a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud specialising in threat detection. He has 15 years experience in the managed security ...

READ BIO
Amy Holden
Mimecast

Amy Holden is a regular webinar MC and moderator with 7 years of experience in technology and four in cybersecurity and resilience. Her ...

READ BIO
Andrew Kay
Illumio

Andrew Kay has over 15 years’ experience in security and quality assurance working with organisations across Asia Pacific to strengthen ...

READ BIO
Anthony Kitzelmann
Airservices Australia

Tony Kitzelmann is the Chief Information Security Officer at Airservices Australia. Formerly the Australian Digital Health Agency’s ...

READ BIO
Ashwin Ram
Check Point Software Technologies

As a Cyber Security Evangelist at Check Point Software Technologies, Ashwin Ram helps business leaders make smarter, more insightful ...

READ BIO
Ben Di Marco
Willis Towers Watson

Ben is a data privacy, incident response and cyber insurance expert with over 13 years of experience practicing as a solicitor in both ...

READ BIO
Ben Mudie
Alsid

Ben is an experienced technical team leader and has managed teams of Software Engineers to collaboratively design and deploy solutions ...

READ BIO
Brian Hay
Cultural Cyber Security

Brian Hay APM has a rare blend of cyber security skills and business attributes. Long considered a Thought Leader in the world of Cyber ...

READ BIO
Bruce Biesecker
Verizon

Bruce is responsible for overseeing Verizon’s Global Security Operations. In this capacity, he leads global Security teams in ...

READ BIO
Casey Ellis
Bugcrowd

Casey is the Chairman, Founder, and CTO of Bugcrowd, and co-founder of The disclose.io Project. He is a 20+ year veteran of information ...

READ BIO
Chris Gatford
Hacktive.io

Chris Gatford is the Founder and Director of Hacktive.io in Sydney, Australia and performs penetration tests for organisations all ...

READ BIO
Colby Prior
Suncorp Group

Colby has a background in DevOps and managing infrastructure. Colby has a strong focus on security and is involved in the information ...

READ BIO
Dave Lewis
Duo Security

Dave Lewis is the Global Advisory CISO at Duo Security and has 25 years of experience in IT security operations and management ...

READ BIO
David Gamer
Splunk

David is a Senior Sales Engineer and Security SME at Splunk, where for the past three years he has helped his clients weaponise their ...

READ BIO
David Jorm
NCC Group

David has been involved in the security industry for the last 20 years. During this time he has found many high-impact and novel ...

READ BIO
Dr Dan Kim
The University of Queensland

Dr Dan Dongseong Kim is an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia since Jan 2019. Prior to UQ, he was a Senior ...

READ BIO
Dr Mark Carey-Smith
AusCERT

Mark has been an information security professional for approximately 20 years. He has worked in operational and architectural infosec ...

READ BIO
Dr Mike Cohen
Rapid7

Dr. Michael Cohen has over 20 years of experience in applying and developing novel incident response and digital forensics tools and ...

READ BIO
Dr Weihan Goh
Singapore Institute of Technology

Dr Weihan Goh is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), where he teaches primarily in the BEng (Hons) ...

READ BIO
Dr. Almerindo Graziano
Silensec | CYBER RANGES

Almerindo has gained over 20 years’ worth of experience in information and cyber security, ranging from developing one of the ...

READ BIO
Dushyant Sattiraju
Deakin University

Dushyant Sattiraju is the Cyber Security Operations Lead for Deakin University. He holds two master’s degrees in Information Security ...

READ BIO
Edward Farrell
Mercury ISS

Edward Farrell is a security consultant with over eleven years’ experience in information security and sixteen years’ experience in the ...

READ BIO
Eric Pinkerton
Trustwave

Eric is a familiar face in the industry, and is honoured to have been selected to present at AusCERT several times, he is a veteran ...

READ BIO
Fatih Ozavci
Independent Infosec Professional

Fatih Ozavci is a multidisciplinary security manager, engineer and researcher with two decades of experience on offensive and defensive ...

READ BIO
Garrett O’Hara
Mimecast

Garrett O’Hara is the Principal Technical Consultant at Mimecast having joined in 2015 with the opening of the Sydney office, leading ...

READ BIO
Gary Gaskell
Infosec Services Pty Ltd

Gary has been a pure play cyber security specialist since 1993. This career has been built on a masters degree by research in the ...

READ BIO
Grant Lockwood
Virtus Health

Grant Lockwood is the Chief Information Security Officer of Virtus Health. Prior to this, he spent 8 years in public healthcare. His ...

READ BIO
James Young
Splunk

James is an experienced and passionate technical professional, with an extensive background working in large enterprise, government, ...

READ BIO
Jeroen van der Ham
FIRST and University of Twente

Jeroen van der Ham is a researcher at the National Cyber Security Centre in the Netherlands (NCSC-NL), he also holds guest appointments ...

READ BIO
Jérôme Leonard
StrangeBee | TheHive Project

Jérôme Leonard is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of StrangeBee where he uses his know-how & skills to contribute shaping its ...

READ BIO
Jess Dodson
Microsoft

Based in Brisbane, Australia and with over 15 years experience in the management & architecture of identity & security system ...

READ BIO
John Grim
Verizon

John has over 18 years of experience leading investigations of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents within the government and ...

READ BIO
Jon Spokes
Trustwave

Jon is a Leo, the fifth sign of the zodiac and ruled by the Sun, which is why he’s moved to the sunshine state. Jon is Trustwave’s ...

READ BIO
Jon-Peter Haywood
Acumenis

JP is a Senior Security Consultant and Threat Intelligence Lead at Acumenis, helping organisations identify security risks and ...

READ BIO
Kendra Ross
Independent Infosec Professional

If you live in NZ & like beer and cyber security chances are you know Kendra Ross, founder of 1st Tuesday, NZ’s largest InfoSec ...

READ BIO
Kevin Tan
Singapore Institute of Technology

Kevin Tan is currently pursuing his BEng (Hons) Information and Communications Technology (Information Security) degree at the ...

READ BIO
Kyle Villano
Cambrex

Cyber security professional with more than 17 years experience developing and maturing organizations’ security protection, ...

READ BIO
Kylie Watson
IBM

Kylie is a unique blend of Sociologist and Technologist.  She leads a team of cyber security consultants nationally at IBM and is the ...

READ BIO
Leon Fouche
BDO

Leon is an experienced ICT professional specialising in cyber security, cloud and technology risk advisory services. He has more than ...

READ BIO
Lukasz Gogolkiewicz
SEEK

Lukasz is a high proficient security professional, previously responsible for the technical direction and leadership for one of the ...

READ BIO
Mark Hofman
CyberCX

Mark Hofman serves as the Chief Technology Officer at CyberCX. Mark is a seasoned cyber security professional with a track-record ...

READ BIO
Mark Krischer
Cisco

Mark has over 25 years of experience across Wireless and Security technologies, and joined Cisco in 2001 through the Radiata ...

READ BIO
Mark Smith
OKTA

Mark has over 25 years of experience in IT, including over 4 years at Okta. An ex-developer now Identity and Access Management ...

READ BIO
Michael Ferguson
Netskope

Michael ‘Fergo’ Ferguson is a Cloud Security Evangelist and Senior Sales Engineer at Netskope. He is a highly customer-focused security ...

READ BIO
Mike Holm
AusCERT

Mike is the Senior Manager at AusCERT; which is a leading Cyber Emergency Response Team for Australia and provides information security ...

READ BIO
Mike Seddon
Quantum Security Services

Mike is co-founder of New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) and the information Security Awards NZ (iSANZ) and has been an ...

READ BIO
Nabil Adouani
StrangeBee | TheHive Project

Nabil Adouani is the CEO at StrangeBee, he is also a tech leader who has been building security software for the last 11 years. As a ...

READ BIO
Nick Pratley
BDO

Nick Pratley is a security professional with the BDO Risk Advisory practice, specialising in cyber defence and security operations. ...

READ BIO
Patrick Dwyer
OWASP

Patrick is the software development lead for a Government organisation and a member of the CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials Core ...

READ BIO
Patrick Kang
Singapore Institute of Technology

Patrick Kang Wei Sheng is currently pursuing his BEng (Hons) Information and Communications Technology (Information Security) degree at ...

READ BIO
Pieter Danhieux
Secure Code Warrior

Pieter Danhieux is the CEO of Secure Code Warrior, a global security company that makes software development better and more secure. In ...

READ BIO
Prescott Pym
Verizon

Prescott must be crazy for working in Security Operations for over 20 years. He has been a leader for Verizon Managed Security Services ...

READ BIO
Professor David Fairman
Netskope

David Fairman is an experienced CSO/CISO, strategic advisory, investor and coach. David has extensive experience in the global ...

READ BIO
Richard Stocks
Recorded Future

Richard is a highly skilled and experienced IT security professional with over 20 years industry experience. He has a strong track ...

READ BIO
Ricky Calder
emt Distribution Pty Ltd

Ricky Calder is a Cyber Security Architect at emt Distribution Pty Ltd. Before Immigrating to Perth, Australia in 2008 I developed a ...

READ BIO
Roger Sels
BlackBerry

Roger leads BlackBerry Solutions for EMEA and serves as a trusted advisor to client’s C-Suite with a focus on maximizing their cyber ...

READ BIO
Samuel Abdelsayed
Checkmarx

Samuel is a collaborative manager, technology and application security enthusiast with over 15 years of delivery experience in ...

READ BIO
Shane Bell
McGrathNicol

Shane has more than 18 years experience managing technology and information risk in business, with a particular focus on cybersecurity, ...

READ BIO
Shawn Richardson
FIRST and NVIDIA

Shawn is a Senior Program Manager in a wide variety of business applications at NVIDIA. She is particularly experienced in incident ...

READ BIO
Simon Cowley
Department of Health, Victorian Government

Simon Cowley is a Principal Cybersecurity Officer at the Department of Health, Victoria. Simon is based in the Digital Health Branch ...

READ BIO
Simon Harvey
Simon Harvey Consulting

Simon Harvey is an Information Security Professional of over 25 years, starting out in Research in the UK and then into Strategy & ...

READ BIO
Simon O’Brien
Splunk

Simon is the manager of the Global Security Strategist team at Splunk, where he has been helping organisations across the world enhance ...

READ BIO
Stefanie Luhrs
Barry.Nilsson.

Stefanie Luhrs is a solicitor specialising in cyber claims. She has managed both small and large scale incidents for domestic and ...

READ BIO
Tracey Weeks
eHealth Queensland – Queensland Health

Tracey Weeks is the Manager of Cyber Security (Training and Awareness) Cyber Security Group at eHealth Queensland – Queensland ...

READ BIO
Troy Hunt
Pluralsight, HIBP, Microsoft

Troy Hunt is an independent security trainer, speaker and Microsoft Regional Director (an honorary role). He’s also the founder of the ...

READ BIO
Virginia Calegare
Rightsec

Formally educated in international conflict, counter-terrorism, intelligence, cyber warfare, nuclear criticality safety, knowledge and ...

READ BIO
Vlado Vajdic
Attivo Networks

I am a solution engineer at Attivo Networks, a software vendor with a mission to stop cyber attacks by hiding and denying access to ...

READ BIO
Walter Manyati
Qualys

Walter Manyati is a Technical Account Manager at Qualys. Walter has spent close to a decade in the cybersecurity domain in Australia, ...

READ BIO

Spaces Selling Fast!