Gar O’Hara speaks with Nigel Hedges, Head of Information Security at CPA and adjunct professor of cybersecurity at Deakin University. Nigel walks us through his journey and how that’s shaped his security thinking, his approach and mindset for building and iterating security strategies, his way of communicating cybersecurity to audit and risk committees, and the value of automation and machines vs the humans in cybersecurity.

The team is back with this fortnights latest cyber security news and insights including the huge impact of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability exploit, the Oxfam data breach that compromised personal details of its supporters, and the phishing scams targeting Aussies with fake vaccination role-out information.

Gar is joined this week by Safi Obeidullah who has a passion for enhancing employee experience and exploring the future of work. Gar and Safi talk through Zero Trust and contextual security controls, the impact transparency has on productivity, what the evolution of working models means at a macro level, and discuss what ‘digital wellness' actually means.

IT professionals, the unsung heroes during COVID - https://bit.ly/3cdhQuH

Citrix research on the future of work ‘Work 2035’  - https://bit.ly/3btyLtL

Gar and Brad bring you the latest cyber security news and insights including the tech giants criticising Australia’s critical infrastructure bill as ‘not fit for purpose’, calls for a national ransomware strategy from the Australian federal government, and the ever increasing volume and frequency of cyberattacks including the Bombardier breach.

Gar and Brad are back with the latest cyber security news and insights for 2021. In this episode the guys discuss the Accellion hack that was behind the Reserve Bank of New Zealand data breach and the dangers of supply chain hacks, how law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide disrupted EMOTET banking trojan and took control of its infrastructure, the SocialArks leak of 214 million scraped social media profiles including private and public details for 2 million Australians, and how AI has was used to create deep fake social profiles on Twitter to attack the Belgian government’s 5G plans.

Graphika report on the Twitter clusters attack: https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_report_fake_cluster_boosts_huawei.pdf

This week our hosts were live online, streaming on our new GCR TV YouTube channel and hosting a live audience via Zoom. 

Dan, Gar and Brad take a look back over the cyber events and challenges that shaped the year, review some of the insights that our incredible guests have brought to the show in 2020, discuss how to cyber resilient across the holiday season and peer into the crystal ball to make some predictions on what 2021 will bring.

View the video from this episode on our new GCR TV YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpJWYZq9-RvCBMVZif8YgZg

This week Gar is joined by Leonie Smith aka ‘The Cyber Safety Lady’ and host of the Digital Families podcast. Leonie has had an incredibly diverse career with a pedigree in graphic design, performing arts and was the CEO of social media training and strategy company Digital Breezes. Leonie was an early adopter of the internet and the common thread in her work is meaningful communication and effecting change.

Leonie and Gar discuss the important ways parents and carers can better navigate the internet, social media and gaming but more importantly how they can help their children. Leonie also lets us know about the three things she would have us do to be safer online, where the responsibility lies for keeping children safe online, the roles of campaigns and regulations for societal level changes, how to go about keeping kids safe while gaming and how to help our kids if something awful like cyber bullying or grooming should occur.

Check out the Digital Families podcast here: https://apple.co/3kZQVVf

This week’s guest is Laurie Joyce, Head of Security Compliance at The Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. Laurie has worked in counterterrorism intelligence analysis for the Victorian Police in Australia, and has experience in enterprise compliance and risk management across a number of organisations including his current role at Red Cross Lifeblood as Head of Security Compliance.

In an episode focused on healthcare, Gar and Laurie discuss medical device compliance, the challenges of holding highly sensitive personal health info, and the Red Cross breach which is considered by many as an example of a good breach response. Laurie also walks us through his work in the Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group which ties in nicely with the fact that it was NAIDOC week when this episode was recorded.

Note: There is a brief mention of sexual violence in this episode, please be mindful that this may upset some listeners.

Gar’s guest this week is Sunil Saale, Head of Cyber and Information Security at MinterEllison. Sunil comes from a heavily technical background having worked at Tata Consultancy Services as an engineer, before progressing into IT Management for PwC Australia and finally heading up cyber at MinterEllison.

Gar and Sunil discuss COVID and how it has changed the dynamics for the Minter Ellison staff, the move into mobile work forces, what the ‘new normal’ looks like, key challenges Sunil and his team faced during the various stages of COVID transition (e.g. EUBA patterns falling apart in the early stages), the balance between security and external digital collaboration, cloud as a path to resilience, end user behaviour programs and what Sunil has learned through the COVID transition.

The Get Cyber Resilient team are back again for the October 2020 cyber news roundup! 

Gar and Dan take a look back over the month that has been and the insights that our October guests brought to the show. 

Brad and Dan discuss the latest in cyber security news including the fake jobseeker ads, how cyber criminals are using celebrity gossip as a lure for Australian targets, the importance of resilience even in a SaaS world, the most recent ransomware attacks and the DFAT email blast that exposed email addresses of Australians stuck overseas. 

After the news, Dan and Gar jump into a discussion on hype vs utility of  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.