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Vijay Narayan, Chief Information Security Officer, Environment Protection Authority

Main key takeaways from this workshop with Vijay include:

• Re-emphasized the importance of data protection through a multitude of mandates
• Implementation of security controls on cloud components
• Providing leadership with timely, comprehensive risk and compliance-related reporting

Jennifer Rebeiro, Chief Information Officer, Greater Western Water

In this workshop with Jennifer, participants learned about:

• The importance of reskilling and upskilling as new roles emerge and skills requirements change.
• Leveraging the experts they already have on staff and creating an extensive career path.
• Adopting more inclusive hiring practices outside of traditional talent pools.

The afternoon one to one meetings are under way at the 13th CIO/CISO Leaders Australia Summit 2022.
Over 200, 30 minutes face to face meetings throughout the day with key industry suppliers and leading IT and IT Security executives.

Imtiaz Bhayat, Chief Information Officer, Regis

Key takeaways from this session:

• RPA creates an exceptional user experience at the transactional layer and forms part of an integration strategy
• The steps towards implementation are easy and ongoing management is vital
• Implementation creates a platform to move more towards AI/

Vinay Manikkam, Principal, Enterprise Security Architect, IAG

In this workshop Vinay shared his insights and experience on adopting a Zero Trust Strategy , touching on:

• Introducing a Zero Trust Framework that is relatable to stakeholders
• Integrating Zero Trust foundation and quick wins with an enterprise cyber security strategy
• Planning Zero Trust maturity investments to address tactical and strategic cyber risk and resilience objectives

Charles Sterner, CISO, AARNet

David Wilde, CTO, AARNet

Charles and David spoke about their recent program, at AARNet, to aggressively grow their cyber security capabilities, to meet the challenges of the modern threat landscape. Core to their strategy is the concept of “devolved cyber security.”
Their session discussed what this means for their company, how they’ve leveraged out of the both thinking to manage our risks, and where they see this going over the next 5 years.

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

Dragan Vladicic, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineer, Asia Pacific, Okta

This Okta roundtable session with Dragan revolved around the subject of “hybrid state” under which many organizations are operating their IT environment these days.

And while the efficiencies of a cloud-first approach are well established, organizations and their employees find it difficult to move back-and-forth between their SaaS apps on one side of the hybrid state, and those legacy applications that need to remain within the on-premises data center.

Keypoints discussed:

• How can security and IT teams provide employees with a seamless, yet secure, experience as they need to access both SaaS and on-premises applications
• How can organizations leverage a cloud-first approach to better manage their applications as well as identity and access management (IAM)
• What are the best ways for organizations to leverage newer technologies to help scale their infrastructure to meet customer needs