The Get Cyber Resilient Show

The end of the cyber road. This week we say goodbye to the Get Cyber Resilient show. Dan, Gar and Vinh take one last look behind the cyber news.

In this episode, we start with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s answer to cyber resiliency; we then jump over to the world of OT and how Schneider Power metres have been disclosing that they transmit user IDs and passwords in plain text. In our last deep dive, we review the appointment of Australia’s first Cyber Security Coordinator. As always, we wrap with a lightning round of the latest breaches and vulnerabilities to make the headlines.

A big thank you goes out to everyone behind the show and also you, our listeners that have either been with us from the beginning or only found us recently; we appreciate every one of you for your support over the years.

In this episode, Gar sits down with Belinda Noel, Chief Growth Officer at Secolve. Belinda talks us through the expanding world of Operational Technology (OT) and Cyber Security, looking at its growing importance and need for attention. We look at the differences and overlap between IT, OT and IOT, and how each play their part, the immaturity of OT security and why it hasn't been a priority and the threats which are bringing it to the forefront of cyber concerns.

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On this week’s news episode, Dan, Gar and Vinh are taking another look behind the cyber news, starting with Toyota, and customer information that has been publicly accessible forover 6 years. Next we dive into the supply chain attack impacting many high profile British brands that is linked to a Russian cyber gang, we then discuss how the government is exploring regulations for Artificial intelligence technologies. We wrap up the episode with a lightning round of the latest breaches and vulnerabilities to make headlines.

This week we are joined by Matt Wilcox, Founder and CEO at FifthDomain. In this conversation, Matt and Gar discuss the growing gap in our local cyber workforce and the initiatives needed to fix the problem. Matt explains the ways we can ensure cyber training is most effective for those coming into the workforce, and the role Government and industry leaders can play in standardising cyber education.

On this week’s episode, Gar and Vinh are taking a look behind the cyber news, kicking off with the twitter hacker extradition in the US, we then discuss the snake espionage infrastructure that cyber agencies have detected in over 50 countries.

Staying global, we look at how the EU is going hard on cyber labelling for the cloud services, then back at home, we cover the Capita ransomware attack costs, Microsoft patches and the trading halt for Australian company TechnologyOne. As always, we wrap up with a lightning round of the latest breaches and vulnerabilities to make the headlines.

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We’re back for the first episode of Season 10! In this Behind the Cyber News episode we kick off with a look into the United Nations Cyber Crime Treaty and its implications on global law enforcement. We then review the Top 5 Most Dangerous cyberattacks for 2023 as announced by the SANS Technology Institute at the RSA Conference, we then move back to local headlines with the Federal Government and Minister Clare O’Neil warning that Australia faces a ‘dystopian’ future of cyber attacks targeting the fabric of our society. We then wrap up of the latest breaches and vulnerabilities to make the headlines.

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This week we are joined by Dr Andrew Reeves, Director at Cybermindz and a psychologist. In this conversation, Andrew talks us through the Cybermindz organisation, the data that came has been uncovered in his research on mental health in cyber and the nine attributes that point to what is different in the world of stress and burnout in cyber and what that can cost a company and a country.

Andrew also walks us through the cognitive heuristics and biases attackers use to gain access to systems, and how to align your security alertness (aka awareness) program to work with the mindsets, values and motivations of employees.

Find out more about Andrews work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewreevescyber/

On this week’s episode; Dan, Gar and Vinh kick off with a look behind the latest high profile, large scale breach – Latitude Financial. We then pivot to a review of the latest misuse of AI, fooling voice recognition systems used to verify identity by Centrelink and the ATO, we also discuss the possibility that the federal government is considering making the tech sector bear more liability for insecure products. As always, we wrap up the episode with a lightning round of the latest breaches and vulnerabilities to make the headlines.

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On this week's episode Gar talks with David Higgins, former CISO for Kiwibank.

In this conversation, David takes us through what AI and ChatGPT mean for cyber, providing a clear understanding of what it is and what it isn’t. He also provides insights into what it means for both the attackers and protectors, as well as what is hype, what is real and where does it lead us. To wrap the episode, we cover a topic that is very important to David, people.

On this week’s episode, the team are back to look behind the cyber news, starting with the announcement from the Home Affairs Department to restructure in order to give government a ‘cyber spine’. We investigate the plan from the European Central bank to run stress tests on cyber resilience across Europe’s top banks in response to the sharp rise in cyber attacks. To wrap up the show, we discuss the new “bootkit” malware called BlackLotus and the risk it poses as well as a lightning round of the latest breaches and vulnerabilities to make the headlines.