Hani Arab
Hani Arab is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of experience across construction, asset management, and media. As Chief Information Officer at Seymour Whyte, one of Australia’s leading infrastructure companies, Hani leads the transformation of ICT services to enhance operational efficiency and deliver strategic outcomes, with a focus on human-centred approaches to solving business challenges.
Hani holds a Bachelor of Engineering (University of Technology Sydney), an MBA (Macquarie Business School), and a Master of IT Management (University of Melbourne). He is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, supervised by Professor's Atif Ahmad and Sean Maynard, researching how information security paradigms - Castle-Moat and Zero Trust - influence organisational response capability during critical cyber incidents.
His research draws on case data from an exemplar Australian financial institution and interviews with senior security leaders across multiple industries. Hani’s own experience surviving a ransomware attack as a technology executive sparked this research. His work has been presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2025) and the CISO Sydney conference.
The price of convenience: How surveillance capitalism turns your life into a product
An audit of Australia's top 50 websites found 74% at high privacy risk, showing how surveillance capitalism turns online behaviour into a tradeable asset.
Your security paradigm is shaping your incident response - And you don’t know it
PhD research finds that whether organisations adopt a castle-moat or zero trust security paradigm quietly shapes how they actually respond to incidents.
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