Category: News

Christopher Johnson, Head of Group Technology, Charter Hall

Key takeaways from this session:

• Drawing up a digital-first operation model.
• Setting up a digital knowledge hub to showcase the impact of digital in transforming business.
• Leveraging on new age technologies and collaborative ways of working to accelerate innovations.

Roland Browne, Senior Systems Engineer & Cybersecurity Specialist, Cohesity

In this session, Participants learned what is the current landscape of Cyberattacks and how to handle and mitigate the threats to data and systems.

Topics discussed included:

• How to protect backed-up data against ransomware attacks whilst improving team collaboration by eliminating platform, people, and process silos?
• Why recovery is a key component of a good cyber security strategy?
• How to rapidly recover data while reducing business impact?
• What are the ways to strengthen data security and cyber resiliency?

Craig Chu, Project Director, Westpac

Key takeaways:

• Focus on outcome KPIs rather than time-sheet recording;
• Working in a hybrid team;
• Attracting talent

David Hayes, Area Director, Australia & New Zealand, Lacework
Ryan Johnson, Director, Sales Engineering, APAC, Lacework

More and more organisations are delivering innovation at record speed, while maintaining confidence in their overall security.

In this discussion with Lacework, participants learned the best practices and insights into how organisations have gained full cloud visibility and security saving them valuable time to focus on safely scaling their business in the cloud.

Kris Gardiner, Head of Data and Analytics, Linfox

Key takeaways the audience learned from this session:

• Leveraging data for the right reasons
• Creating a multi speed data ecosystem
• Build for the now, design for the future

Rassoul Ghaznavi Zadeh, Director of Information Security, ResMed

Key takeaways from this session:

• Examining identity protection tools existing internally and using it to protect from attacks.
• Adopting Zero Trust methodologies to prevent, detect and respond to cyber security incidents.
• Taking advantage of more robust security in the cloud and having a strong cloud posture.

The morning one-to-one meetings are under way at the CIO/CISO Leaders Australia Summit 2022 in Sydney.

Attendees have the opportunity to personalise their own agenda and meet with peers and industry leaders providing relevant products and services for their business.

Simon Mitrevski, Manager, Solutions Consulting, Carbonite + Webroot, an OpenText company

But there is a way to achieve agile migration in a secure, scalable and simple manner

with minimal risk and near-zero downtime.

Key takeaways from this session:

• Best practices and tips to reduce the complexity of migrating workloads to the cloud, or from cloud-to cloud environments|
• How to reduce costs by aligning a fit-for purpose infrastructure for a company’s workloads

Strategies to increase agility of operations and how to migrate at scale

Moderator:
Luke Hannan , professional MC, www.lukehannan.com

Panelists:
Khurram Waheed, Principal Security Architect, ExtraHop
Iain Hart, Head of Technology & CISO, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Chirag Joshi, Director, ISACA Sydney

For today’s data-driven businesses, adopting new technologies, including cloud based creates risk which must be managed.

This session discussed accelerated adoption of new technologies as businesses rapidly digitalize, as well as the new cybersecurity risks that are created.

The panelists touched point also on the best ways to manage these risks  to build resilience into an organisation.

Dr Jerry Vochteloo, Field CTO, Asia Pacific and Japan, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies

Ensuring an organisation has the ability to recover from a ransomware or broader cyber event is critical in this digital transformation era

This talk discussed a number of simple steps organisations can take to increase their resilience in the face of an attack that either corrupts or destroys IT infrastructure and data.