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Mitchell Parker, CISSP, is the Executive Director of Information Security and Compliance at IU Health. Mitch has done a significant amount of work in researching the effects of cloud and distributed computing, network-based threats, compliance, and privacy and security requirements on connected health devices. Mitch works collaboratively with a number of EMR and biomedical equipment vendors to improve their security postures and provide a better quality of service. He currently resides in Carmel, IN, with his wife, two children, and two cats.

Rafael Chiang is a skilled information security strategic leader, having worked in the information security industry for a variety of multinational and global organisations, for more than 20 years’. Dedicated to supporting and sustaining business growth through brand and value protection, Rafael’s specialty is communicating and collaborating at all organisational levels, creating tailored security cultures and experiences. Aside from spending time with his family, Rafael’s interests are learning and communication methods, meditation, neuroscience and psychosensory therapies.

Starting as a teenage hacker in the 1990’s, having been involved in the largest mass hack of the time and setting off an international incident after hacking into a nuclear weapons facility, Greg has over two decades of technical, management, and leadership experience in Information Security.

A frequent speaker about bringing leadership, visibility, care, and accountability to the Information Security field and breaking out of today’s reactive status quo, he is an expert in building efficient and effective InfoSec organisations by harnessing human potential and addressing the often cultural root causes within management, IT, and InfoSec itself.

He is currently the Head of Information Security at the University of Salford, a freelance security strategy advisor, guest lecturer, mentor, author, and creator of the UoS Information Security Leadership Programme.

As for the book, ‘Rethinking InfoSec‘ the review:

“If you are ready to make a fundamental change to the way you operate, that will save you money yet allow you to achieve so much more, this book is a must read!”

-cybersecurity-professionals.com

Melissa Wingard is a senior commercial technology lawyer, with almost 15 years’ experience, assisting software, cybersecurity, and technology companies, across the Asia Pacific region, grow their business and meet strategic aims, whilst managing risk and regulatory compliance.

Melissa works as Special Counsel for Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick, a specialist IP firm. She has extensive experience in relation to commercialising intellectual property, information security, data protection and privacy across APAC. She holds an LLB (Hons), BA (Hist & Eng), Grad Dip Applied Finance & Investment and is presently studying a Masters of CyberSecurity Operations

Matthew is the founder of Ayenem (www.ayenem.com.au), a DevSecOps consultancy and founder of DevSecOps Sydney meet up.

Matt gets a kick out of rapidly becoming an expert in new and emerging technologies and pushing past the limits. It might be the joy of winning or just seeing people’s face go oohhh that’s impressive that drives him but, either way he gets results quickly and enjoys mentoring and up-skilling others along the way.

Matt most recently comes from a background at Deloitte where he built out Defensive and Offensive Cloud Security and Security Automation tooling for the DevOps practice, quickly becoming a leader in the DevSecOps / DevOps space where he then went on to build a software engineering powerhouse for a Network Security company. He has delivered robust software delivery pipelines with security automation for FSI, FinTech and large Enterprise companies and is passionate about Security automation and moving away from traditional penetration testing towards an Agile Security Testing and Continuous Security methodology.

He has presented live technical demonstrations and talks on a range of topics such as AWS Security, Docker Security, Serverless Security, DevSecOps and Kubernetes at different Industry events and conferences.

Matt’s core technical skills lie within Cloud Architecture across the big 3 (AWS, Azure, GCP), Platform Development & Engineering, Automation, Container Orchestration, DevOps, Information Security and is presently working with companies to introduce DevSecOps and embrace Continuous Security.

If you have questions for Matt or just want to chat DevSecOps look out for the next DevSecOps Sydney (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/DevSecOps-Sydney/) meetup.