Perimeter Security is Dead: Addressing the Expanding Attack Surface – Greg Newbegin and Asbed Boymoushakian

Greg Newbegin, Security Lead, Lenovo
Asbed Boymoushakian, Services Sales Manager, Lenovo

The roundtable theme was “Perimeter Security is Dead: Addressing the Expanding Attack Surface”, and the group looked at several security concerns that are important to Australian businesses in modern times, including some less common considerations.

Managing Digital Risk in an ‘Assume Breach’ World – Lessons from the Optus Breach – Andrew Milroy

Andrew Milroy, Chief Research Advisor, Focus Network

Key discussion points included:

  • Faster detection and response when breaches occur
  • Cybersecurity strategies
  • Involving the board in cybersecurity strategy and policy development
  • The need for tighter data privacy controls such as data minimisation and storage limitation
  • Lessons learned from the Optus breach.

Redefining Data Migration for the Modern Enterprise – Simon Mitrevski

Simon Mitrevski, Manager, Solutions Consulting, Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText Security Solutions

The session unveiled:

  • Best practices and tips to reduce the complexity of migrating workloads to the cloud, or from cloud-to cloud environments
  • How to reduce costs by aligning a fit-for purpose infrastructure for your workloads
  • Strategies to increase agility of operations and how to migrate at scale

IT Risk and Cyber Security Risk: Perspectives from the Board and the C-Suite – Peter Deans

Peter Deans, Director, Notwithoutrisk Consulting

Peter drew from his 32-year career spanning banking and finance, and risk management to provide insights and advice on how CIOs and CISO can effectively engage with the C-Suite and Board.
The session delved further into the role of the board, effective risk management, effective communication, and reporting.

Building a resilient data driven enterprise – Panel Discussion

Panellists:

Fahad Najeeb, Head of Data Platforms and Engineering, Latitude Financial Services
Khurram Waheed, Principal Security Architect, ExtraHop
Indika Delpachitra, Associate Director, National Australia Bank

Moderator:

Andrew Milroy, Chief Research Advisor, Focus Network

For today’s businesses, success means being data-driven. Generating value from vast amounts of data, engendering innovation, and having agile and scalable business models necessitates the use of cloud technologies wherever possible. But adoption of new technologies creates risk which must be managed.

This session saw our panellists discuss accelerated adoption of new technologies as businesses rapidly digitalise, as well as the new cybersecurity risks that are created. Also discussed, were the best ways to manage these risks to build resilience into organisations.

 

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