Cyber Security Weekly Podcast

We speak with Vince Hawkes, former Commissioner, Ontario Provincial Police of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in his role as Director of International Engagement and Partnerships, speaking at the 2025 World Police Summit in Dubai, UAE.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is the world’s largest and most influential professional association for police leaders. With more than 34,000 members in over 170 countries, the IACP is a recognized leader in global policing, committed to advancing safer communities through thoughtful, progressive police leadership. Since 1893, the association has been serving communities by speaking out on behalf of law enforcement and advancing leadership and professionalism in policing worldwide.

Representing IACP, Vince contributed to two panel discussions; capacity building and capabilities sharing, and another on training and exchange in transnational crime response that highlighted the IACP/UAE Ministry of Interior Police Academy Exchange Program. In addition, the IACP staffed a booth to connect with global attendees, sharing information about membership and services.

Vince Hawkes joined the IACP on January 28, as Director, Global Policing in the Office of the Executive Director. Prior to joining the IACP, he served as Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and worked in other capacities at Ontario Provincial Police, located in Orillia Ontario. Ontario Provincial is

of one of North America’s largest deployed police services comprised of approximately 6,200 uniform members, 2,800 civilian employees and 850 auxiliary members. Vince was responsible for the strategic vision and organizational priorities linked to the provincial government’s policing mandate and the Police Services Act. He also oversaw frontline policing and policing coordination at the local, provincial, national and international committee levels. In addition, he served on the

Board of Directors for the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the State & Provincial Executive Committee (IACP Division).

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We speak with John Kilburn, Regional Industry Leader of SAS, Silver Sponsor at the World Police Summit 2025, held at the Dubai World Trade Centre 13-15 May.

As the Regional Industry Leader – Law Enforcement and Public Safety at SAS, John leads the development and strengthening of partnerships with Law Enforcement and Public Safety agencies across emerging markets in EMEA and the Asia Pacific region. The role involves driving SAS engagement with heads of investigation, agency leaders, and transformation officers, assisting to revolutionize their digital investigative and intelligence culture through the rationalisation and adoption of cutting-edge technology.

With a distinguished 27-year career in Law Enforcement, John served as a Detective Senior Sergeant with the Queensland Police Service, where he specialized in criminal investigations, security intelligence, and counter-terrorism.

In the late 1960s, eight Southern universities came together to develop a general purpose statistical software package to analyze agricultural data. NC State had always been a leader in developing code for analyzing agricultural data. It was a natural fit to house the project at the university’s Cox Hall because the mainframe there could process enormous amounts of data.

The resulting program – the Statistical Analysis System – gave SAS both the basis for its name and its corporate beginnings.

Since then, SAS has grown to become one of the largest privately held software companies in the world.

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Blue Biometrics (Blue) was founded in Australia in September 2017, to develop world class contactless biometric technology, for dual use national security and commercial applications. Blue now also operates companies in the UK and the USA. Prior to founding Blue, the co-founders were involved in pioneering contactless technology.

Blue Biometrics is now delivering to law enforcement the next generation of LEA Blue, software that enables smartphone cameras as contactless fingerprint scanners, ideal for field identification in policing.

We speak with CEO and Founder, Kenneth King at the World Police Summit 2025, held at the Dubai World Trade Centre 13-15 May.

MySecurity Media were media partners to the WPS 2025.

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We speak with Hafis Murty, Head of Product Development with AVM Cloud as sponsors to the Cyber Security Asia 2025 Conference, Kuala Lumpur 21-22 April.

Recognized as one of the premier cloud solution providers in Malaysia, AVM Cloud Sdn Bhd has been at the forefront of cloud computing services since 2010. Throughout the past decade, AVM Cloud has established its reputation as Malaysia's foremost Enterprise Cloud Solution Provider, standing shoulder to shoulder with leading global counterparts.

AVM Cloud's robust infrastructure is supported by three state-of-the-art datacentres located within Malaysia, enabling us to offer a comprehensive range of public and virtual private cloud services with expertise in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Advanced Analytics.

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We speak with Siva Dharmaraj, CEO and Founder of Cloud Destinations, a Silicon Valley-based IT leader with partners in Malaysia.

Cloud Destinations has expanded its global footprint, strengthening its presence in the Southeast Asian market and fostering international collaboration in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing, Data Engineering, IT security & Software Services.

Cloud Destinations were sponsor to Cyber Security Asia 2025, Kuala Lumpur 21 - 22 April

We speak with Aaron Tay, Technical Solutions Consultant with Manage Engine, as sponsors for the Cyber Security Asia 2025 conference in Kuala Lumpur, 21-22 April.

ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation that offers comprehensive on-premises and cloud-native IT and security operations management solutions for global organizations and managed service providers. Established and emerging enterprises rely on ManageEngine's real-time IT management tools to ensure the optimal performance of their IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, endpoints, and more. ManageEngine has 18 data centers, 20 offices and 200+ channel partners worldwide to help organizations tightly align their business to IT.

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We speak with Fabian Lim, Business Development Manager for V Gallant.

As sponsors for the Cyber Security Asia 20205 conference in Kuala Lumpur, 21-22 April, VCI Global introduced V Gallant CyberSecure, an AI-driven, military-grade cybersecurity solution designed for enterprises.

With encrypted backups, real-time threat detection, and AI-accelerated encryption, businesses can now protect their data and ensure operational continuity.

For more information visit https://vgallant.ai/

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After three lead episodes we review the key outcomes from the series with our esteemed speakers:

Zeynep Soylu - Sydney Chapter President

Chirag Joshi - Sydney Chapter Board Member

Abby Zhang (pending) - Auckland Chapter Board Member

Bharat Bajaj - ISACA Melbourne Board Director

Jason Wood - Auckland Chapter former President

This week's State of Cybersecurity, Privacy & Trust episode outcomes may be summerised to the following key points:

• Budget Challenges v Technology Advances v Ever Evolving Threat Landscape - no wonder a majority are feeling some stress
• Training v Skills, Jobs v Job Ready requirements
• Trust – A complex Eco-System – stand out is Third Party Risk Management
• Cyber & Risk Communications - knowing the stakeholders
• Privacy – Important but never Urgent?

For the full series visit: https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/security-amp-risk-professional-insight-series-2025/

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Welcome to the Indo-Pacific State of Cyber Series with ISACA and sponsored by Vanta.

We present the third session with the State of Trust – Critical to the success of every business

Speakers

Jamie Norton - ISACA Board Member

Jason Wood - Auckland Chapter former President

Reshma Devi - Melbourne Chapter Board Member

Evan Rowse – Vanta

A copy of the VANTA report is available here https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/vanta

A copy of the ISACA report - State of Digital Trust 2024 is available here https://www.isaca.org/resources/reports/state-of-digital-trust-2024

Trust is critical to the success of every business. But building, scaling and demonstrating trust is getting harder for Australian organisations. To meet customer expectations, security leaders and their teams must address complex threats, a growing compliance burden, and increasing risk from their third-party vendor footprint. The rapid adoption of AI technologies only adds to the challenge, requiring more oversight and governance.

Vanta’s second annual State of Trust Report uncovers key trends across these areas of security, compliance and the future of trust. Based on a survey of 2,500 IT and business leaders (with 500 of the respondents from Australia), our research found that more than half (58%) of Australian organisations say that security risks for their business have never been higher.

More than 5,800 digital trust professionals shared their insights for ISACA’s State of Digital Trust research and give their perspectives on:

• The top benefits of digital trust
• The consequences of a lack of digital trust
• Biggest digital trust obstacles
• Accountability for digital trust
• Budgets
• Measurement

SPONSOR: Vanta’s trust management platform takes the manual work out of your security and compliance process and replaces it with continuous automation—whether you’re pursuing your first framework or managing a complex program.

For more on the Security & Risk Professional Insight Series visit https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/security-amp-risk-professional-insight-series-2025/

For more on IPRAAC – visit Indo-Pacific Robotics, Autonomy, AI and Cyber Conference 7-9 October 2025 – Perth, Western Australia - https://indopacificroboticsconference...

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Welcome to the Indo-Pacific State of Cyber Series with ISACA and sponsored by Vanta.

This session focuses on The State of Privacy - A Challenging Landscape: Lack of training or poor training tops reasons for privacy failures

Speakers

Safia Kazi - ISACA Global - Report Author

Jo Stewart-Rattray - ISACA Oceania Ambassador

Privacy professionals are under growing pressure as they face budget cuts, resource challenges and changes in regulations. According to ISACA's State of Privacy 2025 survey report, almost half (48 percent) expect a budget decrease in the next year and 73 percent indicate expert-level privacy professionals are the most difficult to hire, adding to the stress of keeping data safe and meeting compliance requirements.

The new research from ISACA, the leading global professional association helping individuals advance their careers in digital trust fields, reflects insights from more than 1,600 privacy professionals worldwide.

The study found that 63 percent of privacy professionals say their role is more stressful now than it was five years ago, with 34 percent indicating it is significantly more stressful. They cite the main causes of this stress as the rapid evolution of technology (63 percent), compliance challenges (61 percent) and resource shortages (59 percent).

To find out more visit https://mysecuritymarketplace.com/security-amp-risk-professional-insight-series-2025/

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