CYBER RISKERS
Dave Cowan
CISO
Link Group
Throughout the last few years, different executives across the industries have met in intimate groups in a safe space, to share their challenges, seek each other as a soundboard on different approaches, sharing case studies on what has worked, and perspectives on industry trends.
Previous executive gathering dates: 24th July 2023 | 21st June 2023 | 18th May 2023 | 25th Aug 2022
27th July 2022 | 9th March 2022 | 23rd Sept 2021 | 16th March 2021| 20th August 2020
18th September 2019 | 13th May 2019 | 28th March 2019
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Some highlights of the CISO group discussions include the national cybersecurity strategy, security budget, collaboration across the different sectors, to defense in depth, security resilience, board-reporting, shifting conversations at the executive board level when it comes to BCP, reframing security conversations focusing on the user experience, all the way through to enterprise ransomware.The group has also focused on challenges and different approaches related to staffing, SOC operations, security strategies, technologies, roadmaps along with vendor management. and forces of impact on the CISO role.
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Feedback on the CISO workshops:
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"It was a great night! Thanks so much for getting the group together face to face. Great food, great company and great speakers with awesome content. Can’t wait until the next one!' - CISO, Edu sector
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"Thanks for getting us together, great to meet so many security professionals in person and share ideas and stories. Looking forward to the next catch up." - CISO, Healthcare
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"Shamane, you're e a fantastic host, thank you. We had some interesting conversations and it was a really useful night, thanks for organising." - CISO, Government agency
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"It was a great night. It was good to see some old faces and meet some new ones. Amazing conversation with lots of sharing." - CISO, Engineering sector
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"Loved the session - it's one of the best CIO workshops I've ever attended." - CIO, Health Insurer
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"Thank you for organising this wonderful event. I truly enjoyed it and it was well-worth the use of my time as I benefited much from the discussions there. Thank you, you're truly doing amazing stuff for our cyber leaders community!" - Global Head of Cyber, Logistics sector
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Imtiaz Khan
CISO
Roads and
Maritime Services
Jeff Campbell
CIO
Horizon Power
Bradley Busch
CISO
Tyro Payments
Claire Pales
Interim CISO
Jean-Baptiste Bres
CISO
HSBC
Venkatesh Subramaniam
Global CISO
Olam International
Asaf Ahmad
CISO
NSW Fire Brigades
Vishwanath Nair
CISO
NSW Electoral
Commission
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Christopher Neal
CISO
Ramsay Health Care
Mitra Minai
CISO
Healthscope
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Elrich Engel
Group Head of
Cyber Security
AMP
Alison Stretch (Burton)
former CISO
ME Bank
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Grae Meyer-Gleaves
CISO
Hollard Insurance
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Kevin Tham
CISO
Avenue Bank
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Marco Figueroa
(prev) Group CISO
NSW Department of
Customer Service
Andy Chauhan
CISO
Ausgrid
Derek Winter
CISO & Director Cyber Security
UNSW
Frances Bouzo
CISO
icare
Louise Schuster
Head of Infosec & Tech Risk
Rest
Lachlan McGill
Executive Cybersecurity Manager
Salvation Army
Mangaraja Saut
CISO
ING Australia
Niamh Cunningham
Head of Intelligence
Scentre Group
Mark Smink
CISO
JLL APAC
Morgan Storey
CISO
Sonic Healthcare
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THE CISO TRIBE
Welcome, Aussie CISOs - Remastered
.AUSTRALIA.
George Abraham
CISO
Novatti Group
Vijay Krishnan
CISO
UniSuper
Grant McKechnie
CISO
Endeavour Group
Benjamin Wise
CISO
Great Southern Bank​
Vijay Narayan
CISO
EPA Victoria
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Nick MacCallum
Head of Cyber Security
Yarra Valley Water
Nigel Hedges
Group Head of
Cybersecurity
Kmart Group
Stephen Bennett
Group CISO
Domino's Pizza Enterprises
Tammy Helg
Director of Information Security
Webjet
Venkat Balakrishnan
CISO
TAL
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Joys Tandian
Head of IT Security & Risk
Export Finance
Mark Leighton
CISO
Aurecon Group
Celeste Lowe
Group Director IT Security
Nine
Liem Nguyen
CISO
GBST
Maxime Cousseau
Global Head of Security
Finders
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Andrew Morgan
CISO
La Trobe University
Charles Gillman
CISO
Superchoice
Daminda Kumara
Head of Security
Commonwealth Super
Daniel Smith
CISO
Hearing Australia
Duné Sookloll
CISO
Horizon Power
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Your Host
Cyber Risk Meetup
Thyaga Sepermaniam
CISO (Acting)
Heritage Bank
James Court
Head of Cyber Security
Cleanaway Waste Management​
Chris Polkinghorne
Head of Security
Swyftx
Mardi Griffiths
CISO
Swinburne Uni of Tech
James Fields
Head of IT Operations
& Cyber Security
Laing O'Rourke
Mazino Onibere
Head of Cyber Security
Regis Aged Care