Rue Maharaj

Rue is a Cyber Security Practitioner with over 25 years of experience across both Private (Global) and Public sector organisations. He currently works in Cyber Security Defence Management in the Victorian State Critical Infrastructure sector. In this role, he's championed the Cyber Incident Response Management practice at Melbourne Water.

Rue's passion for Cyber Incident Response Management extends beyond the organisation's ability to recover from anomalous events. He strongly believes that understanding the Psychological Drivers of the malicious actors behind cyber-attacks, as well as the Consequential Impacts to our Cyber Incident Responders, organisation and wider citizens. They are key to building higher resiliency and stronger Cyber Incident Response Management strategies.

Rue holds professional and academic qualifications from Harvard University, The University of Auckland and The University of South Africa. Furthermore, he holds a range of Cyber Security and IT professional certifications.