Agenda

Australia is experiencing rebounds in business and consumer confidence, helping maintain our V-shaped recovery, but we have evolved new hybrid and distributed ways of working.

The silver linings of the pandemic include accelerated digital projects and maturity, alongside the reduction of several pre-existing barriers to transformation – and we must adapt to doing business in this higher risk landscape.

Security Edge will take you and your peers on a practical journey to overcome the key challenges around your role in managing people, delivering digital resilience and protection, while maintaining visibility over a blurring domain.

ADAPT’s research and advisory leadership team reveal the latest local fact-based insights, based upon 10,000 conversations and over 1,000 detailed surveys of our region’s executive digital and IT leaders.

Matt reveals the core findings distilled from your aggregated pre-event surveys and those of your executive CFO, Digital and CIO peers on their drivers, aims and opinions on security strategy. Also comparing the investment priorities, resource allocation and unique challenges of the Australian CISO for you to benchmark and validate your thinking.

ADAPT Analyst Aparna Sundararajan interviews Assaf as he joins us live from San Jose.

We are honoured to welcome live from the USA one of the world’s foremost security leaders.

Assaf is the head of the Enterprise Cyber Security organisation in PayPal, in charge of delivery of PayPal’s security strategy by designing, building, and operating security products and services. He has been working in the security field for the last 19 years and has been an entrepreneur, vendor, operator, and leader in large corporations.

This includes a former role securing and protecting the Israeli governments networks and systems.

We will debate modern security architecture to protect customer data at PayPal, where ‘good’ yesterday is not good enough today:

• Challenges of safety and security of customer data
• Zero trust architectures
• Privacy and balancing GRC
• Fraud engines to ensure customer protection

This exclusive session will allow time for audience live Q&A under the Chatham House Rule.

Ben de Bont joined ServiceNow in July 2019 and currently serves as CISO. Mr. de Bont previously served as CISO for IBM Cloud, CSO for HP Cloud, CISO for Myspace, and led Microsoft’s online incident response team.

Ben co-leads the Technology & Innovation Council for Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and as of 2017 has been a board and founding member of the Cybercrime Support Network (CSN).

In 2018, Ben was selected to participate in the Presidential Leadership Scholar Program, a joint initiative of the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson, merging leaders from across non-profit, military, public, and private sector fields to facilitate solutions to the nation’s most pressing issues.

In today’s increasingly competitive market, facing fatigue and retention challenges, leaders need to create and foster high-performing teams if they’re going to achieve their goals. But what actually makes for a high-performing team? And how do leaders accomplish this monumental undertaking while juggling their daily demands?

While there’s no one recipe for success, there are core elements that Security leaders can leverage to help teams perform at their best.

Lucy is the Co-Founder and CEO of NOBL, a global organisational design firm born in the US with a new office in Sydney. At Security Edge 2021, she’ll break down what leaders can do to create and retain a high-performing team, drawing on her experience in operations, human resources, and organisational strategy to drive meaningful and lasting change.

The upheavals of 2020 will have a long-term impact on the way we work. They’ve created an opportunity for every organisation to find a better way of working. But with this comes new challenges and threats for Security leaders.

During this fireside chat with Sean Catlett, CSO at Slack, we will discuss:

• Secure collaboration in a hybrid world
• How to maintain comprehensive security controls as risks increase
• Optimising SecOps with Slack and speeding up incident response

Sean Catlett is the Chief Security Officer at Slack, where he is responsible for overseeing all security governance, risk management and compliance efforts to ensure that Slack is among the most secure and compliant channel-based messaging platforms for businesses and government agencies around the world.

At Reddit, Sean built and grew the company’s dedicated Security and Privacy functions, protecting the site’s more than 430 million monthly active users around the world. In addition to a breadth of executive roles at industry-leading security software companies, Sean has held senior leadership roles securing some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Fidelity Investments, Bank of America and Barclays.

Sean holds five US patents in machine learning in access governance, cybersecurity control framework development, data loss prevention, machine learning for intrusion detection and e-crime detection.

Sean received a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas, Texas.

The increasingly sophisticated and dynamic nature of cybercrime makes it an existential threat to our economy and our way of life. But there is cause for optimism, with government reshaping the regulatory landscape to make it fit for purpose, boards and executives improving their understanding of cyber risk and resilience, and more appetite for meaningful collaboration across the public and private sectors.

Australia has a bright future ahead, but to realise our potential in the post-Covid, digitally accelerated world, we need both the government and private sectors stepping up to their respective roles in ensuring we have the cyber capability and resilience to protect our critical assets and safeguard our economic prosperity.

Alastair is Australia’s most recognised cyber security leader, and is the Chief Strategy Officer at CyberCX. His leadership experience includes serving in senior cyber roles across government, as National Cyber Security Adviser, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security, as well as serving as Australia’s inaugural eSafety Commissioner. Alastair has also held senior roles across the private sector, including head of eBay’s Asia Pacific Trust & Safety operations, and previously served in the Australian Federal Police for 15 years.