Program
14-16 October 2026
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Browse the program and start planning your CyberCon 2026 experience across three days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and more.

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When the playbook burns: AI accelerated incidents and the response gap killing Australian organisations
An AI-augmented ransomware attack made a rehearsed incident response plan irrelevant within 90 minutes, exposing gaps regulators now penalise.
Who's accountable when AI acts with credentials
Identity frameworks built for humans fail when AI agents act autonomously with legitimate credentials, and this session maps that accountability gap.
Your website has a new front door: Generative AI wants in, and the attackers are already there
As generative AI crawlers and agentic browsers surge, websites need a framework to distinguish trustworthy automation from attackers using the same access.
Experts as a service: Crowd based forecasting for cyber risk quantificaiton
Crowd-based expert forecasting turns distributed security knowledge into a calibrated, dollar-denominated risk signal for assets no scanner can reach.
Perception is not assurance: What validated assessments reveal about SME cyber security
Multi-year research into validated SME assessments reveals a governance blind spot where self-reported confidence still substitutes for real cyber assurance.
Beyond the credential: What Telegram knows about your company that you don’t
Infostealer logs expose far more than usernames and passwords, including session cookies and SaaS access most security teams never think to monitor.
Compliant, but still exposed: Rethinking OT cyber risk as an architectural problem
Using Colonial Pipeline and Stuxnet as examples, this session shows why OT risk increasingly comes from architecture and dependencies, not missing controls.
The first 24 Hours: Checklists, choices and chaos in cyber crisis response
Well-designed checklists for the first two, eight and twenty-four hours of a cyber incident turn chaotic decision-making into calm, coordinated response.
Finding meaning in the signal: Why detection needs adversarial ground truth
Detection engineering should be driven by continuous adversarial simulation as ground truth, closing the gap between telemetry and real assurance.
Lunch
Exhibition Closes
Anthropic CISO session with Jason Clinton
Anthropic Deputy CISO Jason Clinton spent more than a decade at Google, where he led Chrome infrastructure security against advanced persistent threats.
Keynote with Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and co-founder of the Open Data Institute, on where data and privacy are heading online.
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