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David Chow brings over 20 years of experience in the federal government to his role as Chief Technology Strategy officer. His focus includes analysing, managing, and implementing technologies to assist with building and maintaining a global cybersecurity strategy. Much of his expertise stems from working alongside the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to modernise the agency’s mortgage loan systems and mature its cybersecurity program. He served on a number of additional roles within the federal government, including executive and leadership positions at the Department of Transportation and the White House. Prior to joining Trend Micro, David demonstrated success in accelerated digital transformation through secured cloud adoption as the Global SVP on NextGen Solutions at CoreLogic, a FinTech data company. David Chow is on the Advisory Board of George Mason College of Engineering and Computing.

William Gooderson is a high-performance coach and speaker who has worked across Australia and the Asia Pacific region providing coaching and workshops to multiple public and private sector organisations. He focuses on training around personal well-being, building resilience in self and others, leading high performing teams in complex environments, and overcoming cultural challenges in the workplace.

William’s experience has been developed over two decades that included: serving as a British Army officer, paratrooper, and engineer, across Europe and the Middle East leading large multinational teams in both the special forces and human intelligence communities; and working in the Australian private and public sectors developing leaders and team’s capabilities on the skills required to lead self and others, whilst adapting to the challenges of evolving workforces and a hybrid pandemic environment.

William is an Adjunct Lecturer on resilience at the University of Tasmania’s school of medicine and is a frequent speaker with multiple National and State groups. In his spare time, he has enjoyed coaching his son’s rugby and basketball teams, is a member of societal relevance projects that educate refugee schoolchildren and disadvantaged individuals on how to take ownership of their circumstances and runs a mental health and wellbeing group for local Dads.

Peter Bauer is the CEO, Co-founder and Board Member at Mimecast, which he launched in 2003 with fellow Board Member and Co-founder, Neil Murray.

He is the visionary behind Mimecast’s SaaS strategy, which empowers businesses across the globe with comprehensive cyber resilience for email. Mimecast’s security, archiving, business continuity and risk mitigation products and services are all delivered from a single cloud platform. This home-grown, pure-cloud delivery mechanism enables an intuitive user experience, suited to the way people interact with email today.

The combination of next-generation technology and seamless integration with existing email systems, is the driving force behind Mimecast’s success in its mission to transform the way people remain productive, collaborative and efficient in today’s ever-changing threat landscape.

Peter was born and raised in South Africa, trained as a Microsoft systems engineer, and began working with corporate messaging systems in the mid-1990s. He moved to the UK where Mimecast was founded and then moved once more, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts in 2011, to lead Mimecast’s aggressive push into North America. Since that time, Mimecast has been one of the strongest performers in its market segment in terms of customer acquisition and top-line growth, making Peter one of only a handful of CEOs to have lead a pure-Saas company for over 15 years while acquiring tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Kevin is a CISO leader in the Australian Digital Banking sector and a seasoned information security veteran in the financial services industry.  Kevin’s practical approach to Cyber Security is often seen as pushing the boundaries and balance between user centric design and effective controls.

Kevin began his career as an academia researcher in the late 90s, an educator, and a security engineer, slowly climbing his way through organisations, developing and implementing security controls, when many organisations do not regard information security as a risk.

Today, Kevin is the CISO of a fintech organisation, which is aiming to make a difference to individuals through well thought out banking solutions and products.

During his spare time, Kevin devotes his time by volunteering and giving his time back to the Security industry through his involvement with the ISACA Sydney Chapter. He served on the ISACA Sydney Chapter Board for 8 years and was also a former President, dedicated to serving its over 1600 Chapter members.

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 3,051+ vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents. He was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and Washington Post Best Seller, There Will Be Cyberwar.  Stiennon was Chief Strategy Officer for Blancco Technology Group, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and his MA in War in the Modern World from King’s College, London. His latest book Security Yearbook 2022 was released in June, 2022. Get a copy here.

Glen Pendley is chief technology officer (CTO) at Tenable, where he is responsible for driving the company’s long-term vision, strategy and continued product innovation. Glen has over 20 years of experience in the industry and deep roots leading cutting-edge engineering, research and product teams for global cybersecurity brands. Before his role as CTO, Glen served as Tenable’s deputy CTO and senior vice president of research & development where he led the global engineering and security research teams. Prior to joining Tenable, he was director for research, development and product Management at McAfee, Inc., where he oversaw engineering and product functions across the globe. Glen serves as an executive advisor to a number of companies and began his career in the United States Marines Corps.

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Adam P. Henry is a cyber security thought leader, published author, international speaker and executive. He has developed research and programs focused on addressing the education, skills and workforce gaps, cyber disaster response/resilience, and cyber warfare. His research and initiatives have focused on developing strategies and effective responses to these key issues. He is Senior Advisor at the Social Cyber Institute and an Adjunct Lecturer at the UNSW Canberra.

Adam has participated in national and international projects and programs and also spoken at major conferences in Australia and internationally. Adam has established strong collaborative networks while in search of impactful partnerships in providing innovative solutions to our biggest technological challenges.

Adam has extensive experience in digital and cyber leadership including transformation, developing, leading and executing technology business solutions and strategies. He is a new thought leader in this field, pushing the boundaries with his research while implementing practical solutions to these global issues.

Lori MacVittie is Principal Technical Evangelist, Office of the CTO, for application security and delivery company, F5. She and F5 CTO, Geng Lin, recently published their book, ‘Enterprise Architecture for Digital Business’, which outlines how to modernise IT for a digital-first world.

The book clarifies why companies struggle with digital transformation, and what it takes to transform IT to become a data-driven, AI-supported digital business.

The book outlines an architecture framework for transitioning IT to operate as a digital business, support innovation and address today’s biggest IT challenges. Each chapter focuses on a specific domain and analyses the trends and technologies driving change, as well as provides recommendations to help organisations adapt.

Lori is a technologist and principal technical evangelist in F5’s Office of the CTO with an emphasis on emerging architectures and technologies including cloud and edge computing, digital transformation, automation and orchestration, microservices, and application delivery.

She has more than 25 years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems operation. She co-authored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and holds a US patent for application delivery provisioning. MacVittie is a contributing author of books on cloud security and object-oriented development and has authored books on application security and XAML.

Ryan has almost 10 years’ experience within the Cyber Security and IT space. With a lifelong love of IT and Cyber Security, Ryan built his career with the goal of exposing himself to as many environments and unique technologies as possible, preparing himself for a successful pivot into the Cyber Security space.

After pivoting in 2020, Ryan quickly grew into the role of Head of Cyber Security (APAC) for Waterstons Australia and now leads a small team of security engineers. He is known for being an innovative, empathic leader who is focused on continuing to build the Australian team and services through the adoption of bleeding edge training, technologies and techniques.

Passionate about everything tech, Ryan has deep experience in cyber security. His strengths include Open Source Investigation, Security Operations, Incident Management and Penetration Testing.

Eager to share his knowledge and insight wherever possible, Ryan frequently provides mentoring and training within the industry to colleagues and students alike, having previously led workshops, presentations and competitive hacking teams through Cyber Security competitions.

Having joined Waterstons Australia in it’s infancy, Ryan has leveraged his knowledge and team to build and deliver new services to clients globally, including intelligence led scanning, penetration testing and BAU Security Operations.

Deeply curious and fascinated with the Internet and Cyber Security, Ryan spends large amounts of his spare time contributing to bug bounties, participating in competitive hacking with his team, attending talks and presentations and eagerly exploring the Internet.

In this episode, Satnam explores the dangers of pig butchering scams, which are a type of investment fraud that typically involve romance and human trafficking, originating in Southeast Asia. He discusses elaborate scams using romance platforms, and how criminals use stolen images of real women to present themselves as real people. He also explores the dangers of online dating scams and the repercussions which can be severe. Finally, He suggests people should always question if something seems too good to be true.

Satnam Narang is Sr. Staff Research Engineer at Tenable with over 14 years of experience in the industry (M86 Security and Symantec). He contributed to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, helped develop a Social Networking Guide for the National Cyber Security Alliance, uncovered a huge spam botnet on Twitter and was the first to report on spam bots on Tinder.

He’s appeared on NBC Nightly News, Entertainment Tonight, Bloomberg West, and the Why Oh Why podcast.