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Dan Woods is the Global Head of Intelligence at F5. Prior to F5, Dan spent more than 20 years with local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations including the FBI as a special agent and the CIA as a cyber operations officer.

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Nathan Wenzler is the Chief Security Strategist at Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company. Nathan has over two decades of experience designing, implementing and managing both technical and non-technical security solutions for IT and information security organizations. He has helped government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies alike build new information security programs from scratch, as well as improve and broaden existing programs with a focus on process, workflow, risk management and the personnel side of a successful security program.

As the Chief Security Strategist for Tenable, Nathan brings his expertise in vulnerability management and Cyber Exposure to executives and security professionals around the globe in order to help them mature their security strategy, understand their cyber risk and measurably improve their overall security posture.

See also: 2022 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats Global Report

Dane’s first business adventure was at aged 18 where he developed and sold digital information products from his home, via online stores. This experience gave Dane a taste for business and pursued a career in sales. After several years in the recruitment and pharmaceutical sectors, Dane relocated to Australia and entered the cybersecurity industry with an early cloud provider called MessageLabs.

Dane played a key role in MessageLabs becoming the market leader in Australia, earning regular accolades along the way, including “global top performer”.  In this role, he worked with senior IT executives from many of Australia’s largest businesses to secure their network from cybercrime.

In 2014, Dane identified a gap in the market in the way organisations were addressing security management and co-founded InfoTrust. InfoTrust are a specialised cybersecurity practice, that supports their clients to become secure and more productive.

InfoTrust has evolved to over 40 staff to develop deep expertise that combines internally developed products, professional services, managed services and third party technologies, across a range of cybersecurity domains.

In 2021, InfoTrust split off a SaaS platform project to incorporate MyCISO. MyCISO simplifies the journey for organisations and their IT providers to assess, improve and manage their cybersecurity improvement journey.

As at July 2022, the MyCISO team consists of 12 staff made up of Product and Software Engineers (9) Operational (2), Sales and Pre-Sales (2).

Dane is married, a father to 3 children and lives between Sydney and a farm in the hunter valley.

Dr. Arun Vishwanath studies the “people problem” of cybersecurity.

His research focuses on improving individual, organizational, and national resilience to cyber attacks by focusing on the weakest links in cyber security—Internet users.

His particular interest is in understanding why people fall prey to social engineering attacks that come in through email and social media, and on ways we can harness this understanding to secure cyberspace.

Dr. Vishwanath is an alumnus of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.  He was a tenured associate professor at the University at Buffalo and was faculty at Indiana University, Bloomington.  He serves as the CTO of Avant Research Group (ARG)—a Buffalo, New York based cyber security research and advisory firm, where he consults for major corporations and government agencies on issues ranging from cybersecurity to consumer protection. He also serves as a distinguished expert for the NSA’s Science of Security & Privacy directorate.

Dr. Vishwanath’s research on improving cyber resilience against online social engineering has been funded by the National Science Foundation. He has published close to 50 articles on technology users and cybersecurity issues and his research has been presented to principals at national security and law enforcement agencies around the world. He has also presented his work at leading global security conferences, multiple times by invitation at the US Senate/SSA and House, as well as four consecutive times at BlackHat.

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Alastair has spent the last 20 years working in Cyber Security and Risk Management. He is a passionate believer that security solutions should enable a business to take advantage of all the benefits of the digital world, while not putting the organisation’s data or productivity at risk.

From working within start-ups to established vendors Alastair has the knowledge to launch and grow markets for technology that cuts through the noise to recommend a methodology that really moves his clients forward, maturing the approach they take.

Having 4 children means he knows what it takes to keep teams focused on the right challenges to delight their customers every day. Building trust at all levels is crucial to this success.

Helping to de-mystify the Cyber market is Alastair’s a key objective, as he believes it can only help the cause if we work together and share intelligence to keep the bad guys out and businesses operating smoothly.

Sarah Sloan is the Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy for Australia and New Zealand at Palo Alto Networks. She advises the company’s leadership on a range of cyber and technology policy/regulatory issues, builds strategic relationships across all tiers of government and acts as a trusted private sector adviser to governments in the region.

Prior to her role with Palo Alto Networks, Sarah worked at Accenture Security on a number of government projects and quickly developed a formidable reputation for delivery and stakeholder management in challenging and nationally significant programs..

Sarah has spent 10+ years working in the Federal Government, predominantly in cyber crime and cyber security. She has a proven track record of delivering results at the operational and strategic levels of government and is passionate about improving Australia and New Zealand’s cyber security posture.

Sarah is a graduate of the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) and Bachelor of Asia and the Pacific Studies. She also holds a Graduate Diploma of Asia and the Pacific Studies (Japanese), Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, and a Master of International Laws, where she wrote her thesis on international norms and cyber security.

Sarah is Chair of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) Cyber Security Policy Advisory Network and is an elected member of the AIIA ACT/Federal Council. She is also a member of the AmCham Digital Economy and Innovation Committee.

Chad Skipper serves as global security technologist at VMware. With more than 25 years in information security, Chad has served in many executive security technologist and strategist roles of endpoint, network, cloud, and hosted security services at Lastline, acquired by VMware, Cylance, acquired by Blackberry, Dell, Cisco, Symantec and is a USAF veteran.

Nick Boyle is a partner in the IP & Technology team at DLA Piper, and is based in Sydney. He advises clients on data protection and cyber-security related matters, as well as digital transformation, IT procurement and implementation and other complex procurement projects.  Nick’s clients range from start-up companies, to large listed and private Australian corporations, to multi-national organisations.

Nick has experience and expertise in advising clients on issues arising in connection with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and State and Territory privacy legislation, including in relation to the collection, use, processing and cross-border transfers of data, cyber security risks and mitigations. This includes assisting clients in navigating these issues in both pre- and post-incident scenarios and information and security related regulatory issues, including as part of digital transformation and BPO projects and in response to cyber incidents.

Jason Van der Schyff is Chief Operating Officer of slightly controversial, quietly confident’ venture-backed company SoftIron – a global leader in purpose-built and performance-optimised data centre solutions.

SoftIron is about to change the game when it comes to Australian business and government cyber control of sensitive data (and better storage of massive amounts of data).

Soon this year, SoftIron will be launching the first-ever base-level computer manufacturing facility on Australian soil. The facility is set to supply ‘clean’ computer servers for firms and government agencies needing assurance there is no malicious or unknown code in their data centres. SoftIron builds and manufactures hardware designed with totally-auditable provenance. SoftIron is the only company in the world that provides fully auditable processes.

Jason brings both technical and operational experience to SoftIron having previously held roles in R&D engineering, sales and marketing roles with Heliox Technologies, James Fisher Defence and a number of early-stage Silicon Valley companies.

With extensive manufacturing experience both domestically and abroad in both consumer and B2B high volume products, Jason leads SoftIron’s efforts in vertically integrated manufacturing and domestic assembly.

Jason recently published his first book, Asymmetric Advantage, available for purchase physically and digitally.