Cybersecurity for Infrastructure Summit

• Investigating cybercrime trends and the major challenges facing the sector today from both home and abroad  
• Reviewing the steps required to protect infrastructure assets from sophisticated cyber-attacks?  
• What are the strengths and limitations of Australia’s current regulatory framework for cyber security?  
• Examining the international partnerships working to improve cyber defence and innovation  

Andrew Woodward, Executive Dean, Cyber security, Edith Cowan University

• The international partnerships improving cyber defence and innovation 
• A priority – Australia’s cyber engagement strategy and the collaborations vital to keeping our infrastructure safe 

Alan Marjan, Assistant Director-General Cyber Uplift Branch, Australian Cyber Security Centre

Cyber resilience helps organisations to prepare, prevent, respond, and successfully recover of their business processes and operations against cyber-attacks. In this session we will identify the key aspects on how cyber resilience makes the organisations to think differently and be more agile when handling attacks and how they can be applied across infrastructure assets in the built world. 

• Why are your staff the key first step in developing an effective cybersecurity framework? 
• How to understand your people and create an effective cyber training? 
• Implementing effective processes to detect and alert anomalous behaviour 
• Development and maintenance of security documentation 

Michael Burke, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Industry Partnerships and Infrastructure Policy Division, Department of Home Affairs

Cyber resilience helps organisations to prepare, prevent, respond, and successfully recover of their business processes and operations against cyber-attacks. In this session we will identify the key aspects on how cyber resilience makes the organisations to think differently and be more agile when handling attacks and how they can be applied across infrastructure assets in the built world. 

• Why are your staff the key first step in developing an effective cybersecurity framework? 
• How to understand your people and create an effective cyber training? 
• Implementing effective processes to detect and alert anomalous behaviour 
• Development and maintenance of security documentation 

Faizal Janif, Head of Security Practice, Oreta,, & Executive Advisory Board Member, AISA

In recent years, the world has experienced an increasing number of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. In this session we’ll discuss the consequences of not hardening operational technology and industrial control systems environment. Historically we have complained that we didn’t have the right technology – or we didn’t have enough properly trained people to address these challenges. Is that still true?  

• Assessing the current cyber threat landscape in Australian Infrastructure assets today and what is the outlook for the future? 
• How to measure the impact of cybersecurity breach and manage cyber risks?  
• How to Improve the incidence threat scoping and response in exercise and practice?  
• What type of technology driven strategies should be implemented to develop the cyber defence for the infrastructure assets?  

• What are the latest policies and strategies for addressing cybercrime in Australia?  

Panellists

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Chirag D. Joshi, Award-winning cybersecurity executive, Best-selling author,, and ISACA Board Director 

Patrick Berry, Operational Technology Leader, Energy Australia

Ian Morris, Channel Director ANZ , Rubrik

Moderator

Corien Vermaak, Director of Cyber Security ANZ, CISCO

With thousands of new security technologies available (and more being added), where should you invest your money and confidence? This session will spotlight 4 leading OT security firms via a series of rapid-fire presentations followed by a moderated panel discussion and provide attendees with a better understanding of the current vendor landscape and what to consider before making decision around their security stack.

Cyber Tech 1: Michael Loewy, Co-founder, Tide Foundation  

Cyber Tech 2: Dean Frye, Senior Manager of Technical Engineering, Nozomi Networks 

Cyber Tech 3:  Ciaran Kelly, Cybersecurity Business Consultant, Schneider Electric 

Facilitated by:  Mark Weinstein, Northern Region Sales Manager, ADVENT one 

In today’s digital age, organisations are facing unprecedented challenges in managing and protecting their data across multiple clouds and platforms. Traditional backup and recovery solutions are no longer enough to keep up with the pace and complexity of modern infrastructure. Join us for a dynamic session on how Rubrik is revolutionising data security and protection for multi-cloud environments.  

Dale Heath, CTO ANZ, Rubrik

It’s evident how crucial cybersecurity & data protection is for any organization but only technology dependence for the security is the solution? Cyber risks are embedded into everything an organisation does. In this session we will focus on driving the cybersecure organizational culture which is as important as information security to mitigate cyber risks and data protection.  

• How to build resilience against cyber risks and protect databases within the organisation?  
• Awareness on how cyber risk incidents is identified and what response protocols are in place 

• Looking at data analysis, what data to keep and what data to back up?  
• How is your organization’s network segmented?   
• How often are security updates for your organization’s IIoT/OT devices applied?  
• Review the impacts of workplace flexibility and hybrid working models on cybersecurity  

Panellists

Ian Robinson, Chief Information Officer, Water NSW

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Charlotte Pascoe, Chief Executive Officer, Stockdale & Leggo Corporate 

Stuart McGinn, Operational Technology Transformation Project Manager, CSR Limited

Facilitator

Adrian Covich, Senior Director, Systems Engineering APJ, ProofPoint

It’s evident how crucial cybersecurity & data protection is for any organization but only technology dependence for the security is the solution? Cyber risks are embedded into everything an organisation does. In this session we will focus on driving the cybersecure organizational culture which is as important as information security to mitigate cyber risks and data protection.  

• How to build resilience against cyber risks and protect databases within the organisation?  
• Awareness on how cyber risk incidents is identified and what response protocols are in place 

• Looking at data analysis, what data to keep and what data to back up?  
• How is your organization’s network segmented?   
• How often are security updates for your organization’s IIoT/OT devices applied?  
• Review the impacts of workplace flexibility and hybrid working models on cybersecurity  

Round Table 1: Understanding your cyber-attack surface. OT exposure from IT and beyond. 

Facilitated by:  Matthew Gambold, Senior Solutions Architect APJ, Armis 

Round Table 2: How to make the most out of your visibility and cybersecurity in infrastructure assets? 

Facilitated by: Dean Frye, Senior Manager of Technical Engineering, Nozomi Networks  

Round Table 3: How will Generative AI affect the security of Critical Infrastructure? 

Facilitated by:  Liam Dermody, Director of Red Team, Darktrace  

Round Table 4:  Using the Identity security paradigm to secure Australian critical infrastructure 

Facilitate by: Olly Stimpson, Strategic Business Development Manager – ANZ, CyberArk &

Troy Cunningham, Solutions Engineer Team Lead – ANZ, CyberArk 

Roundtable 5: The final missing piece of any organisation; Cyber Security Strategy

Facilitated by: Ian Morris, Channel Director ANZ, Rubrik &

Alister Freese, Account Executive NSW, Rubrik 

The Sustainable Digitalisation Project (SDP) was created to establish a framework for the responsible, ethical and sustainable use of data, including avoidance of the harms of cyber breaches. In this discussion, we take a broader view of digital culture and explore how a data and governance lens can be applied to our use of data and digital technology for the benefit of our stakeholders.  

• Understanding why establishing a responsible, ethical and sustainable digital culture is critical for real estate companies, and the principles to shape it 
• Exploring the interrelated data and governance issues for our stakeholders emerging with our accelerated use of data  
• Examining why cybersecurity should not be addressed in isolation, but as part of a broader responsible, ethical and sustainable approach to data use 
• Assessing cybersecurity through a data and governance lens and the potential implications for companies and their key stakeholders  

Panellists

Jon Collinge, Sustainability Director, Morrison & Co

Rogier Roelvink, Chair, Technology Portfolio Group, FMA,, Customer Strategy Director, Oracle

Ura Sarfejoo, Director - Digital Solutions, Building Technologies & Solutions, Johnson Controls

Moderator

Simon Carter, Head of Sustainability, ESR Australia

• Top cyber threats impacting industrial infrastructure 
• New threat groups targeting ICS/OT 
• Vulnerabilities disclosed last year 
• OT incident response stories from the frontlines 

Seth Enoka, Senior Principal Industrial Incident Response Consultant, Dragos

As cyber incidents increase in both frequency and complexity, it’s clear that cyber is the new disaster. In response, organisations are transforming from a posture of cybersecurity into one of cyber resilience – balancing the cybersecurity teams’ traditionally defensive strategies with the native disciplines & skills used by the data protection & business continuity environment. This session provides insight into new ideas about the key inputs needed to design a zero-trust environment. We’ll discuss why this evolving view evokes varied reactions among stakeholders and how to manage the conversation. 

• Elements of effective security architecture for protecting assets in this era of rapid transformation and disruption  
• Considerations and practices for optimising Operational Technology (OT) asset security  

• Measuring and reporting what matters to get the right support from executive leadership 
• Avoid common pitfalls that result in ineffective security posture 

Chirag D. Joshi, Award-winning cybersecurity executive, Best-selling author,, and ISACA Board Director 

OT is essential, proliferating and the key to critical functions for all the infrastructure assets, cybercriminals are overtly aware of this dependence. In this session, we will address the need for strong OT safeguards owing to the cybersecurity threat targeting the infrastructure assets.

• What are the key drivers for OT cybersecurity and how to implement end-to-end risk management towards cyber resilience?  
• Review the shortage of OT/ICS professionals and regulatory environments for OT cybersecurity a matter of concern in Australia?  
• How OT/IoT security collaborations can help to secure OT environment of infrastructure assets?  
• What are the key challenges need to be addressed by IT/OT convergence?  

• How sets of controls such as IDS, Malware Detection, Threat Intelligence Feed and Reporting are important to detect & respond to threats within the OT environment?

Panellists

Anna Aquilina, CISO, University of Technology Sydney

Gurvinder Pal Singh, Head of Cyber Security, Bingo Industries

Jeff Campbell, Senior Manager, Horizon Power

Faizal Janif, Head of Security Practice, Oreta,, & Executive Advisory Board Member, AISA

Moderator

Chirag D. Joshi, Award-winning cybersecurity executive, Best-selling author,, and ISACA Board Director