Themes & Topics
CyberCon 2026 brings together six content themes, spanning everything from secure engineering and red teaming to leadership, law, and culture.
See the themes shaping this year's program and who's on stage.
Empowered Together
This year's theme recognises that true resilience comes from collaboration.
When industry, government, academia, and practitioners unite to share knowledge, we become stronger and better prepared to face an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Find Your Focus
From technical practice to leadership, policy, and culture, every session connects back to a single goal: a stronger, more secure Australia.
- Secure Architecture and System Design
- Software and Application Security
- Identity-Centric Design and Zero-Trust Architectures
- Data Protection, Cryptography and Long-Horizon Confidentiality Risk
- Supply Chain, Dependency and Provenance Risk
- Autonomous and AI-Enabled Systems Security
- Post-Quantum Cryptography and Cryptographic Transition Planning
View all sessions for Building Secure Technology
- Security Operations Centres and Continuous Monitoring
- Threat Intelligence, Detection and Adversary Behaviour
- Incident Response, Crisis Coordination and Recovery
- Vulnerability, Exposure and Attack Surface Management
- Automation, Orchestration and Operational Resilience
- Algorithmic Decision Risk in Detection and Response
- Operational Limits and Failure Modes of AI-Assisted Security
View all sessions for Running Secure Operations
- Human Risk, Judgement and Decision-Making Under Pressure
- Security Culture and Behavioural Change
- Workforce Pathways, Skills and Career Sustainability
- Professional Practice, Ethics and Standards
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Wellbeing, Burnout and Retention
- Human–Machine Teaming and Skill Displacement Risk
- Ethical Boundaries of AI Use in Cyber Work
View all sessions for People, Culture and Workforce
- Cyber Governance, Ownership and Accountability Models
- Executive Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
- Board Oversight, Assurance and Risk Appetite
- Crisis Leadership and Executive Response
- Aligning Cyber Investment to Organisational Outcomes
- Governing Autonomous and AI-Driven Systems
View all sessions for Leadership, Governance and Accountability
- Cyber Law, Regulation and Compliance
- Privacy, Surveillance and Civil Liberties
- National Security, Geopolitics and Cyber Conflict
- Public Policy, Regulatory Reform and Enforcement
- International Norms, Standards and Cooperation
- Strategic Competition in AI and Quantum Capability
- Digital Sovereignty
View all sessions for Law, Policy and Global Power
- Initial Access and Exploitation
- Post-Exploitation and Red Team Operations
- Cloud, Infrastructure and Supply Chain Attacks
- Social Engineering, Physical and Hardware Attacks
- AI/ML and Emerging Attack Surfaces
- Tool Development, Bug Bounty and Vulnerability Research
View all sessions for Hacking, Red Teaming
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