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Jane Frankland is an award-winning leader, best-selling author, speaker and change agent. Through her company, collaborations and partnerships, Jane is solving the problem of making women standard in male dominated industries like cyber, as she believes if you’re short on women, you are less safe, happy and prosperous. Having spent over two decades in cybersecurity, Jane has become one of the industry’s most celebrated female influencers and UNESCO has called her a trailblazing woman in tech. She started in tech by building her own hacking firm in the late 90s but has also worked as a senior executive for world renown consultancies. She regularly shares her thought leadership in the media, including the top broadsheets, at events, as a university guest lecturer and board adviser. She is known for spotting trends, bringing teams together for mutual wins, solving root problems fast, plus all the work she does with women. She is driven by her three children, an obsession to deliver outstanding quality and to make a positive difference in the world.

As leader of Fivecast, Brenton is responsible for driving innovation in the security industry through the application of world leading data science techniques to the field of open-source intelligence (OSINT). Brenton was formerly CTO of the Data To Decisions CRC, a $100 million collaborative research initiative to address data analysis challenges facing Australia’s national security agencies. This work led to the formation and spin-out of Fivecast, where he and the team are working toward their mission to enable a safer world by providing digital intelligence solutions that help protect global communities. Brenton has a Ph.D. in neural networks and his 20+ year career spans technology and management roles for companies including BAE Systems, Tenix Defence and Motorola.

Liam RYAN is the CEO of GM Risk Group, a Intelligence Solutions and High Risk Consultancy firm with its Head Office in Australia and entities in both The US and Netherlands. He  has 15 + years industry experience ranging from operational surveillance, close personal protection and logistics in high risk and conflict zones around the globe, to executive security and risk management, corporate advisory and the provision of complex security solutions for large multinationals and ultra-high net worth entities.

Operational experience though out Australia, South East Asia, North, East, South and West Africa, the Americas,  Middle East and most recently Ukraine.

Liam has recently returned after multiple deployments in Ukraine where GM Risk Group have been providing Security Advisory, Logistics, Close Protection and Emergency Management for media clients covering the ongoing conflict with Russia.

Liam and GM Risk Group first deployed to Ukraine in early January 2022, and in the following months had over 15 teams across the country. They maintained a presence since and have also been providing civilian evacuations, safe access for NGO’s and supply chains of aid.

Helen Hamilton-James has over 28 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services to clients across many sectors in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the UK. Having started her career as a graduate in Deloitte’s London office, Helen moved to Sydney in 1997 as part of a global development program.

Since becoming Partner in 2004, Helen has held multiple leadership roles including Office Managing Partner for Papua New Guinea, Chief Operating Officer of Deloitte Private and Assurance and Advisory Leader in Deloitte’s Western Sydney and Canberra offices.

In her current role as Office Managing Partner for Western Sydney, Helen is a passionate advocate for the region and all that it has to offer. She is focused on providing exceptional service to our clients across the area and creating a great place to work for partners and employees based in our Western Sydney office.

Outside of work, Helen is currently a non-executive director serving on the boards of SDN Children’s Services and Good360 Australia

Stephen is a proven sales and business leader with over 15 years’ experience in cloud-based IT. He has led high growth businesses in both North America and ANZ from small to enterprise software organisations

His passion and ability to recruit, motivate and lead extraordinary teams is the key to consistently exceeding business goals. His leadership style is a transparent and consultative approach that focuses on driving value for the customer first and working from the front lines with his team. In every engagement from clients, to partners and colleagues, he demands high ethics and integrity each step of the way.

Within Zscaler, Steve helps organisations secure their business, clients, and staff with world-leading technology.

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Mike Johnson joined Fastly as Chief Information Security Officer in 2019 and has more than 20 years’ experience in the security industry having previously been CISO at Lyft and at Salesforce for nine years where his leadership was instrumental in building and growing the company’s detection and response organisation. At Fastly, Mike is focused on supporting the company’s mission to build a more trustworthy Internet and bolstering security alongside performance, scale and edge functionality as the company continues to grow its edge computing offerings.

Mark Guntrip leads cybersecurity strategy at Menlo Security. He brings over twenty years experience in the enterprise security market where, through a range of roles including engineering, product management and product marketing. He has a proven track record of building success in new markets as well as promoting growth within more established areas. Prior to Menlo Security, Guntrip held various management roles within companies including Proofpoint, Symantec and Cisco. Guntrip earned his Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University, UK.

Rosie Anderson has worked in tech recruitment since 2002, and cyber security recruitment for over 7 years. After having a second baby right at the start of the pandemic, she decided to leave a stable career in recruitment and joined a start up recruitment business in Manchester, called Honeypot Digital at the beginning of 2021.

Rosie prides herself on being open and transparent, which sometimes means asking tough questions – either about a person’s career or about a company hiring process and culture. Having worked in recruitment for two decades now, Rosie has built many successful relationships with companies and candidates and looks to share her advice on how to get recruitment right and how to avoid costly mistakes.

Businesses need great talent management to grow, and Rosie looks to partner with her customers to be that integral function of their business, often representing clients and candidates exclusively. She strives to not only resolve recruitment and career challenges but to safeguard both parties interests and deliver real solutions while doing so.

As a working parent, working working in a start-up Rosie knows how to juggle like the best of them. She also heads up the Industry Mentoring Programme for Capslock, a cyber training provider that retrains adult learners into future cyber security talent in as little as 16 weeks.

ALTON JOHNSON

Alton Johnson is the Founder and Principal Security Consultant for Vonahi Security. Prior to Vonahi Security, Alton worked at several large and small cybersecurity consulting firms as a Principal Security Consultant. Throughout his professional career, he has performed hundreds of security assessments for organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 10. He is proficient in performing both traditional security assessments, such as network, physical, and application penetration testing, as well as advanced security assessments, such as red team engagements.

With over a decade of experience as a security consultant and over 10 industry-related certifications, Alton has helped hundreds of organizations requiring unique, modern-day approaches to solve today’s most complex security challenges. 

As the Founder of Vonahi Security, Alton regularly conducts research to identify ways to help organizations combat ever-changing cyber threats through efficient, automated, cost-effective, and non-traditional security assessments.

Notable Accomplishments

Alton has developed several penetration testing tools and scripts that are used widely within the information security industry. Alton also developed and published several open-source tools to platforms such as GitHub, Metasploit Framework, as well as Kali Linux (formerly known as Backtrack Linux), all of which are the most recognized and used tools and operating systems within the information security consulting industry.

The penetration testing tools that were developed by Alton were written in multiple scripting languages, which provides him the ability to quickly and efficiently develop exploits and scripts that can be used for network traffic analysis, protocol/service fuzzing, exploitation, and quick completion of extremely time-consuming network-related tasks.

Certifications & Training

Alton successfully obtained some of the industry’s most challenging and respected security certifications, including Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), as well as eLearnSecurity’s Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPT). He also regularly attends information security conferences and has spoken at DerbyCon, Podcasts, and local community events.

Areas of Expertise

Cybersecurity, automated penetration testing, vulnerability research, exploit development, coding, cryptography, malware, phishing, social engineering, and technology innovation.

Non-Hacking Hobbies

Aside from cybersecurity, Alton is also a car enthusiast. He enjoys modifying and racing his car on the tracks. He’s also into photography, especially automotive photography, and shooting pool as often as possible.

Connect with Alton

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.altonj.io 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/altonjx/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/altonjx

Thomas Kinsella is the Co-founder and COO of Tines, a no-code automation platform for security teams. Before Tines, Thomas led security teams in companies like Deloitte, eBay, and DocuSign. As COO, Thomas is responsible for customer success, professional services, and more. Thomas has a degree in Management Science and Information Systems Studies from Trinity College in Dublin.