Gar’s guest this week is Jacqui Nelson, the CEO of Dekko Secure - an Australian software company that helps government, law enforcement, medical and legal organisations secure their workflows when working with sensitive and confidential information. 

Jacqui walks Gar through her journey from an investor in Dekko to CEO, her passion for solving business problems, Dekko’s new end-to-end encrypted video conferencing software, and delve into the importance of trust – not just from a digital perspective but across every facet of business and our lives.

New AustCyber podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ozcyber-unlocked/id1524419882

Gar O’Hara is back again with Dan McDermott and Bradley Sing for the July 2020 monthly roundup episode. Brad and Dan discuss the latest in cyber security news including Cosmic Lynx, tax time ATO scams, Australia’s ranking on the most hacked countries list, and WA’s pager system exposure. 

Then Dan and Gar take some time to dive into detail on the biggest news story of this month, the Twitter profiles hack.

This week Gar gets sassy (SASE) with Mike ‘Fergo’ Ferguson, Senior Sales Engineer at Netskope. Mike has been an IT geek his entire life, with a passion for computers fuelled by his father who owned a cyber cafe. Mike started in IT support and contracted out in the UK before heading to the European Central Bank in Germany, then to Australia with Websense where Mike became an SME in data leak prevention before starting his role at Netskope. 

In a slightly more technical episode of the GCR podcast, Mike and Gar dive into everything Secure Access Service Edge, from a high level explanation SASE and its capabilities to what protections are possible within the architecture.

Cyber security leader, Chirag Joshi, joins Gar to discuss his career journey and what it means to be ‘cyber aware’. Chirag is the Director of ISACA’s Sydney Chapter and author of the 7 Rules to Influence Behaviour and Win at Cyber Security Awareness. Chirag has also created, rolled out and successfully managed cyber security risk awareness programs across multiple countries and is a much sought after speaker at cyber security events. 

During this interview, Chirag and Gar discuss a range of topics surrounding creating awareness in your workplace, including the dangers of being boring, why you shouldn’t rely on bad news stories, why context is important, how to use you allies, and most importantly — how to get the support of upper management.

Visit Chirag’s website to get your hands on a copy of his latest book: https://www.chiragdjoshi.com

This week Gar is joined by Prescott Pym, Operations Director for Network Security at Verizon and self confessed ‘cyber-holic’. Prescott spent 7 years working at the Australian Bureau of Statistics before joining Verizon as a security analyst back in 2007. Prescott has built out SOC teams in Australia, India, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and the USA and currently runs a 70 person APAC SOC with a focus on government. 

Prescott brings a wealth of experience along with his passion for cyber resilience to this discussion focused on Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report including how Verizon use the report, the unexpected trends the data highlights, how the tried and tested attacks are still doing damage, what the data means to small and large businesses and where these attacks are coming from.

To get your copy of the Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report please follow this link: https://vz.to/3hR38eI

Gar O’Hara is joined once again by Dan McDermott and Bradley Sing for the June 2020 monthly roundup episode. Gar and Dan take a look back at some of the key learnings recent guests have brought to the show, Dan and Brad discuss the latest in cyber news including the recent cyber attacks on Lion as well as Fisher & Paykel. 

Gar and Dan finish up the episode by discussing by far the most dramatic cyber event this month - the Prime Minister of Australia’s announcement that the country was under cyber attack!

Gar is joined this week by Luke Francis, the Channel Director for CrowdStrike in Australia and New Zealand.  Luke has over 20 years experience in global sales and marketing and has had a number of successful tenures with Dell, Citrix, and BMC Software. 

In this episode, Gar and Luke discuss the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report in detail — including how the report is created, how geopolitical and socio-economic unrest is reflected in the report, COVID-19, the trends highlighted within the report and their impact on Australia and New Zealand, the rise in malware, the uptake in data exfil and its use with ransomware, and also the recommendations within the report. Luke brings his considerable experience and knowledge to the conversation and  also provides some of his own insights on integration and security fabrics.

Get your copy of the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report: https://bit.ly/37FPJRW

Gar’s guest this week is Dr. Cate Jerram, principle researcher and lead academic on cyber security at the University of Adelaide Business School. Cate’s background in adult education led her to information systems research and the human and organisational aspects of cyber security. Cate also helps design and teach cyber security courses and programs as well as supervise PhD students. 

Cate and Gar talk broadly on the human aspects of cyber security and the delay in organisations understanding its importance, how cyber posturing is playing into VCs desire to put money into startups, and discuss Cate’s latest research.

This week Gar is joined by Shannon Sedgwick, Senior Managing Director at Ankura. Shannon is a seasoned director with deep experience providing future-focused leadership to governments, private enterprises and boards. Shannon has spent over a decade working globally across tech, cyber security as well as government risk and compliance.  Shannon isn’t afraid to share his opinion and often expresses them on broadcast media, through his regular published articles and on the Get Cyber Resilient Podcast. Gar and Shannon discuss a number of topics including navigating technologies strategies during COVID-19, the tech landscape in terms of buyers and sellers and ask what’s broken with conferences and how can they can be improved?

Ankura provide fit-for-purpose and cost optimisation analysis and review of companies technology and cybersecurity architecture and vendors to reduce complexity while maintaining governance, risk, and compliance standards, as well as identify opportunities for cost reductions. https://ankura.com/

Couch potato style cyber security event mentioned by Shannon was ComfyCon AU: https://www.comfyconau.rocks/

Gar O’Hara is back again with Dan McDermott for the May 2020 monthly roundup episode. This month Gar and Dan are also joined by Mimecast’s very own Bradley Sing who is an active contributor to the Get Cyber Resilient blog and a cyber resilience renaissance man. In this roundup episode Gar and Dan discuss some of the key learnings recent guests have brought to the show, Dan and Brad discuss the latest in cyber news and Gar and Dan finish up the episode by diving into a very popular security question — are our phones listening to us? To read the article that prompted this question, please follow the link below.

John McMahon: Is Your Phone Listening To You? We Ask The Experts - https://bit.ly/3eF6jnc