Timothy McIntosh

Timothy McIntosh

Generative AI & Cyber Security Research Strategist
Cyberoo.AI

Tim is a Generative AI and Cyber Security Research Strategist at Cyberoo Pty Ltd and a PhD supervisor at RMIT University, specialising in the intersection of generative AI, cyber threat intelligence, and security engineering. His work focuses on designing and operationalising AI-driven systems for scam detection, threat analysis, and adversarial environments, with particular emphasis on integrating generative AI into security products under real-world constraints. He holds a PhD in Cyber Security and is an active CISSP and CSSLP, contributing to both industry and academic research on the evolving security implications of AI.

The next insider threat is already inside: How generative AI quietly accumulates power across the organisation

Timothy McIntosh & Dan Xu
2026-10-15 4:40 pm
2026-10-15 5:20 pm
Room 204

Generative AI embedded across enterprise tools quietly accumulates permissions and authority, and this session proposes governing it as a non-human insider.

Your website has a new front door: Generative AI wants in, and the attackers are already there

Jason Liu & Timothy McIntosh
2026-10-16 12:35 pm
2026-10-16 1:15 pm
Room 217

As generative AI crawlers and agentic browsers surge, websites need a framework to distinguish trustworthy automation from attackers using the same access.

When generative AI goes to war: Why ethics theatre, human-in-the-loop myths, and weak governance are failing cyber security today at scale

Timothy McIntosh & Sherry Wu
2026-10-14 11:10 am
2026-10-14 11:50 am
Room 219/220

Ethics statements and human-in-the-loop reviews are not real controls for autonomous AI agents; this session argues for hard runtime limits instead.

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