Matthew Westwood-Hill

Matthew Westwood-Hill is a cyber security practitioner, independent researcher, and tool smith with more than 20 years of experience spanning digital forensics, incident response, and information security leadership.

He currently serves as Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Frontier Software, where he is responsible for building the organisation’s security function across SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, cloud security architecture, and security awareness. The work presented at this conference is conducted independently and does not represent Frontier Software.

Prior to his current role, Matthew led the security function at the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), served as Principal Investigator at CyberCX managing complex digital forensic and cyber breach response engagements, and led the Privacy and Cyber Response, Computer Forensics, and eDiscovery practice for Oceania at Ernst & Young.

Matthew’s independent research focuses on the security architecture and threat modelling of AI tooling ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), browser extension attack surfaces, and the operational challenges of integrating large language models with external tools and data sources. He is an active developer of MCP servers, security tooling, and relay architectures, and is a graduate of the SANS Technology Institute.

He is based in Sydney, Australia.