Morry Morgan and Chris Cubbage catch up on the week's events and upcoming events for MySecurity Media - including a look back at the ASIS International National Security Conference, Outstanding Security Performance Awards, NEC Facial Recognition technology release and the application of CPTED in city management and surveillance systems. Other events highlighted included the Palo Alto Networks 'Women in Cyber' round-tables in Canberra and Sydney and the Cyber-in-Business panel in Melbourne and the Micro Focus Application Security round-table.

Chris Cubbage speaks with Matthew Kates, Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand for Zerto. Zerto provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software, specifically for virtualised data centres and cloud environments. Matthew highlights the release of Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) version 5.5 which builds on Zerto’s solution for replication and automated recovery of production workloads for public and hybrid cloud environments. This interview was conducted at #AISACON17 in Sydney in October 2017.

Scott Hagenus is the Chief Marketing Officer for EMT Distribution, based in Adelaide. In this interview Chris Cubbage and Scott discuss the Australian Signal Directorate's (ASD) top 4 cyber security mitigation approaches, within the ASD's Top 35 mitigation strategies.

The company is 100% channel, sourcing solutions that best fit with their client’s cyber security needs. You’ll get insight into two of their vendors’ products, Airlock and Flexera, and their benefits in helping you reach compliance and prevent a cyber attack.This is our fourth interview conducted at #AISACON17 in Sydney in October 2017.

Speaking from the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, Chris outlines the Global Press & Analysts Summit ‘Innovators in Cloud, IoT, AI & Security’ program being held by NetEvents and MySecurity Media's upcoming publications and event schedule.

In late September, MySecurity Media spent a week visiting San Francisco, San Jose and Silicon Valley, courtesy of NetEvents and during a three day event schedule, press and analysts representing over 30 countries were driven through Silicon Valley, briefed on a range of new and emerging technologies, start-up companies and gained insights from a range of technology and industry focused panel sessions.

Interview with Aaron Doggett, HiVint (https://hivint.com/)& Kevin O'Sullivan, KineticIT (https://www.kineticit.com.au/) introducing a new cyber security challenge in Western Australia. MySecurity Media caught up with Aaron and Kevin at #AISACON17 in Sydney and dived into the inspiration behind WA's newest cyber security challenge.

@capture_tf is a two day event where your skills will be pitted against a range of technical challenges. A cyber security CTF is a type of information security competition where players solve security challenges from categories such as digital forensics, web application exploitation, and cryptography to get flags. Prizes include a trip to Canberra for a BSides (http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage)event in April 2018.

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.

The Security Partners’ Forum (SPF), the first-of-its-kind agile international network of security professionals, bridging all domains and disciplines of security. Under the SPF banner Bonnie created the Women in Security and Resilience Alliance (WISECRA - which engages a growing network of women in security and resilience associations/groups globally, and the Canadian Cybersecurity Alliance (CCA). Since 2013 Bonnie has received no less than 8 international awards and accolades related to security and resilience including most recently being named to the highly prestigious list of Canadian Who’s Who for 2017.