Main Program

Wireless and OT red teaming still depends on human intuition and specialist hardware, revealing weaknesses automated and AI-driven testing consistently miss.

Telstra's real-world lessons from applying the FAIR model to move cyber risk reporting from qualitative guesswork to dollar-based board reporting.

A well-regulated nervous system, not just technical skill, is now core to cyber leadership, offering a neuroscience approach to preventing burnout.

Traditional governance frameworks were not built for AI's uncertainty and autonomy, leaving invisible risks that demand adaptive, shared oversight.

An existing ISO 27001 management system can be extended to govern AI, rather than building a separate ISO 42001 framework from scratch.

Australia's cyber skills shortage is a curriculum problem, and building genuine industry input into training design is how a national RTO is fixing it.

Law, policy and global power is the brief for managing partner Patrick Fair of Patrick Fair Associates, at 10.55am on Thursday in Ask an Expert 1.

Freaky Clown legally breaks into companies. Author of How I Rob Banks and a Darknet Diaries guest, he has worked in security for over 25 years.

Watch six of Australia's top OT and critical infrastructure experts battle unrehearsed in an Oxford-style debate where your vote decides the winning side.

Skilled migrants bring expertise Australia's cyber workforce needs, yet systemic barriers to recognition and employment still waste that capability.

A structured studentship model pairs cyber security students with SMEs, building practical talent while strengthening small business resilience.

Agentic AI is treated as an insider risk question, with a way offered to work out what is running in an organisation and what it can reach.

Keeping a human nominally in the loop isn't enough; safer AI in security work depends on observability and directability designed into the system itself.

Modular infrastructure as code, policy guardrails and approval-gated pipelines shrink the blast radius of cloud mistakes before the first workload ever lands.

The SABSA security architecture framework is applied to Amelia Earhart's disappearance, using trust modelling to reconstruct what went wrong that day.

Treating vendors as strategic partners rather than suppliers reshapes procurement toward mutual accountability and measurable business impact.

Reframing cyber risk in financial terms, using quantified exposure rather than technical metrics, can turn a board's budget hesitation into a swift approval.

PhD research into regulator-industry relationships finds that partnership, not just enforcement, drives cyber security uplift beyond compliance.