Program
14-16 October 2026
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
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Cyber warfare 0.0: Analysing geopolitical flash points and the evolution of the global cyber threat landscape
Using the 2026 Iran-US/Israel conflict as a case study, this session quantifies why organisations once considered non-combatants now carry real cyber risk.
AI in the wild: Preparing for the AI driven attack era
A real AI-generated command-and-control sample shows how identity-based attacks now blend into legitimate activity, and what SOC teams need to change.
Responding to attacks targeting Cloud Identity solutions
Cloud identity and access management attacks demand a specialised incident response approach distinct from traditional on-premises investigations.
What SOC leaves behind: The evidence DFIR needs
Triage decisions made during SOC escalation can destroy the forensic evidence DFIR investigators need, and this session closes that handover gap.
Developing detection models through real world applications of threat intelligence & threat hunting
A structured sprint cycle turns threat intelligence into validated detection coverage, hypothesis-driven hunts, and detection models that compound over time.
Petrov's loop: What good decisions look like when the machine is in the room (v2)
Stanislav Petrov's refusal to trust a flawed 1983 early-warning system offers a model for how security-critical AI decisions should be second-guessed.
Ship fast, regret later: A year of breaking AI applications
A year of penetration testing AI-enabled applications exposes recurring failures in prompt handling, tool permissions and data leakage security teams miss.
Your agent works for me now
A working proof of concept shows how a fake compliance website can trick AI agents into leaking secrets and suppressing vulnerability remediation.
The AI policy paradox: Why enterprises are stuck in governance gridlock
Most organisations deploy AI but few govern it, and this session offers a three-step framework to unblock the compliance gridlock stalling AI oversight.
When you are the SOC: The first 60 minutes of incident response
Solo IT responders without a SOC need a simple confirm, contain, preserve, communicate loop to manage the first hour of an incident without destroying evidence.
When legal meets AI: Navigating eDiscovery, Privilege, and AI-Assisted review in the modern enterprise
AI tools touching privileged legal communications create governance risks most organisations haven't addressed, and this session sets out the controls to own.
The fatigued engineer: The modern day DevSecOps human risk stack
Human risk in DevSecOps now extends beyond phishing to fatigue, psychological safety and blind trust in AI overrides, needing teams designed for pressure.
Sydney to Seoul: An Aussie lass has a wild ride in K-Cyber, Soju, and Survival
Two years defending a Fortune 120 Korean e-commerce giant reveal what cyber security looks like on a frontline shaped by geopolitics and language barriers.
Designing and implementing an effective cyber insurance program for SMEs: Practical risk transfer that actually works
This tutorial gives SMEs a practical framework for selecting cyber insurance, preparing for underwriting, and staying claims-ready when an incident hits.
Decoding AI threats: Interactive threat modelling techniques with Maestro AI
The MAESTRO framework applies threat modelling to agentic AI, helping practitioners identify threat vectors and co-create tailored countermeasures.
Intentional inclusion: Strategies for high-impact cyber teams
An inclusive culture systems framework gives cyber leaders practical steps to build unity, collaboration, and sustained high performance in their teams.
OffSec Workshop - OT war games using Kali Purple
A hands-on workshop hunts threats across a simulated OT environment using Kali Purple, detecting and mitigating attacks on SCADA, PLCs and industrial networks.
Featured speaker with Kath Koschel
A former professional cricketer told she would never walk again, Kath Koschel taught herself to walk three times and founded The Kindness Factory.
Response reality: Lessons from cyber incidents
Incident response and cyber insurance practitioners unpack why outcomes depend less on having a response plan than on executing it under real pressure.
AI on Kubernetes is a hidden attack surface
Hands-on findings on GPU container escapes, model-weight side channels, and agent trust failures that traditional cloud native tooling misses entirely.
The digital detective: How an internal OSINT challenge sparked organisation-wide engagement
An internal OSINT challenge covering 94 tasks showed staff across a power network how everyday online activity can expose far more than they realise.
From outreach to early career: What works in building sustainable cyber security pathways
National research across school outreach, university and workforce entry reveals a pathway continuity problem, not a talent shortage, and how to fix it.
Stopping the tank: Centre of gravity analysis for cyber threat prioritisation
Borrowed from military doctrine, centre of gravity analysis identifies the one dependency an attack would need to disrupt, making prioritisation defensible.
Cyber warfare: Uncomfortable truths about cyber munitions from the first quarter of the 21st century
From Stuxnet to NotPetya to a 2026 wiper attack on Stryker, this session tracks how state-built cyber weapons keep spilling over onto ordinary enterprises.
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