Keynote speakers



Charl van der Walt

Head of Security Research,
Orange Cyberdefense (South Africa)

George Beebe

Vice President and Director of Studies,
Center for National Interest (USA)

Jo Stewart-Rattray

Director of Information Security &
IT Assurance, BRM Advisory (Australia)

Dr Kenneth Geers

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Ambassador, NATO Cyber Centre (USA/Mozambique)

Roger A. Grimes

Data-Driven Defence Evangelist,
KnowBe4 (USA)

Dr Suelette Dreyfus

Academic Specialist,
School of Computing and Information Systems,
University of Melbourne (Australia)

Uri Rivner

Chief Cyber Officer & Co-Founder,
BioCatch (Israel)

Speaker details:

Charl van der Walt, Head of Security Research, Orange Cyberdefense (South Africa)

Charl van der Walt is the original founder of SensePost - a pen testing company in South Africa and in the UK - where he still sits on the board. He has acted in various roles there, including CEO for about five years. After they sold SensePost to SecureData, he took a diverse role within the group that includes leading its research unit, directing security strategy and leading the "Security Intelligence Unit," which (amongst other things) runs a significant Managed SIEM and Threat Hunting (MDR) Operation. He has spoken on a variety of occasions over the duration of his career, including Black Hat, HITB, Defcon, NATA CCDCOE, BSides and 44Con.

George Beebe, Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for National Interest (USA)

George Beebe is one of America's most well-informed and insightful experts on international affairs and foreign policy. He has an especially strong background in cyber security, US intelligence, US-Russia relations, and the challenges of the changing international order. George Beebe is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for National Interest. He is former President of BehaviorMatrix LLC, a technology company that measured audience response to events, issues, and commercial brands. His new book (August 2019), The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe, examines how changing technology, the dysfunctional politics, garbled communications, and unsettled regional conflicts are combining to trap the US and Russia in a disastrous escalation spiral neither one wants or expects. George has spent more than two decades in government service as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor. A speaker of both Russian and German, he was the director of the CIA's Russia analysis and Special Advisor to Vice President Cheney for Russia/Eurasia and Intelligence Programs. He also is well versed in the challenges the US faces in North Korea and the Middle East. George speaks with unparalleled authority on cyber security and information warfare. He brings to his presentations a unique combination of expertise in technology, experience with intelligence practice, and connections with the intelligence community.

Website

Speaking engagements

Digital Enterprise Show 2019: www.des-madrid.com
Review from a recent cybersecurity event that George spoke at:
George Beebe delivered a tremendous opening keynote session at our [ ... ] event that our attendees were talking about all day. He was an absolute pleasure to deal with both onsite and in the run-up to the show and I’d have no concerns recommending him to anyone looking for a knowledgeable speaker on cybersecurity and more specifically Russia’s role in what is happening in cyberspace.

Jo Stewart-Rattray, Director of Information Security & IT Assurance, BRM Advisory (Australia)

Jo has over 25 years’ experience in the IT field, some of which were spent as CIO in the utilities, as Group CIO in the tourism space and as a Group CISO in the health services arena. She underpins her information technology and security background with her qualifications in education and management. She specialises in consulting in risk and technology issues with a particular emphasis on governance and security in both the commercial and operational areas of businesses. Jo provides strategic advice to organisations across several industry sectors including banking and finance, utilities, manufacturing, tertiary education, retail and government.

Jo has chaired a number of ISACA’s international committees including the Board Audit & Risk Committee, Leadership Development and Professional Influence & Advocacy. She served as an Elected Director on ISACA’s international Board of Directors for seven years and was the founder of its global women’s leadership initiative, SheLeadsTech.

Because of her involvement with ISACA and the SheLeadsTech programme and her rural background, Jo was selected from a large number of candidates to be one of only two non-government delegates and was invited to join the official

Australian Government delegation to the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) held in New York in March 2018. She has spoken on Capitol Hill during a Day of Advocacy designed to bring tech leaders together in one place to discuss issues related to women in tech leadership and then to meet with Congress representatives and Senator’s offices. Jo has had an award established in her honour to recognise her outstanding leadership and commitment to increasing the representation of women in technology leadership and the tech workforce more broadly. The inaugural ISACA Oceania Jo Stewart-Rattray Award was awarded in September 2018.

Qualifications, Memberships and Awards

  • Master of Education Studies – Psychology
  • Bachelor of Education in Adult Education - Psychology
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT)
  • Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
  • Chair, Audit & Risk Committee, ISACA International (2015-2018)
  • Chair, Women’s Leadership Council, ISACA International (2015-2019)
  • Fellow, Australian Computer Society, Certified Professional (Cyber Security)
  • Chair, ACS SA Branch Executive Council (2014 - 2017)
  • Member, ACS National Audit & Risk Committee (2015-2017)
  • Director, International Board of Directors, ISACA (2012-2014, 2015-2018)
  • National ICT Professional of the Year (iAwards 2011)
  • Paul Williams Award for Inspirational Leadership (2014)
  • SA Women’s Honour Roll Inductee (2015)
  • Tony Hayes Leadership Award, ISACA Oceania (2017)
  • IFSEC Global Top 20 Security Thought Leaders (2019)

Speaking engagements

  • Closing the Gender Gap in IT and Security & Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: the Perception Gap, Dec 2019, Gartner CISO Forum Melbourne, Australia
  • The Future of Audit and Security Professions, Nov 2019, ISACA Sydney One Day Summit, Sydney Australia
  • SheLeadsTech on the Road, Oct 2019, ISACA Perth, SecureIT Summit, Perth, Australia
  • Dec 2019, The Future of IT Governance, Sep 2019, ISACA Canberra, 50th Anniversary Breakfast, Canberra, Australia
  • Dream Big and Believe, Aug 2019, Cyber Geek Week Opening Keynote Address, Atlanta, USA
  • The Past, the Present and the Future of Security, Aug 2019, ISACA PNG Chapter Annual Conference, Port Moresby, Australia
  • Leadership Masterclass for Security Professionals, Jul 2019, Liquid Learning, Sydney, Australia
  • Introducing COBIT 2019, Dream Big and Believe & Leadership for Technology Professionals, Jul 2019, CIAG Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Cybersecurity for Small to Medium Business, Jun 2019, International Mercantile Agents Conference, Adelaide, South Australia
  • SheLeadsTech on the Road, May 2019, ISACA Auckland Chapter AGM, New Zealand
  • Cybersecurity for Small to Medium Enterprises Webinar, Apr 2019, National Rural Women’s Coalition
  • Empowering Women through the use of Technology, Mar 2019, United Nations Headquarters, Commission on the Status of Women, New York, USA
  • A Technology Conversation with the Board, Feb 2019, Adelaide Business Hub, Adelaide, South Australia

Books and articles

Articles:
ISACA Rep Works with UN to Advance Gender Equality
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/bridging-the-gender-divide/news-story/2aa09c4012ff9d323f7fc218979b03d0
blubrry.com/mysecurity/48488879/episode-171-interview-with-sheleadstech-founding-isaca-director-jo-stewart-rattray/

Publications (as a member or Chair of the development team):
Business Model for Information Security, ISACA, 2011
Creating a Culture of Security, ISACA, 2012
COBIT 5 for Information Security, ISACA, 2012
COBIT Information Security Focus Area (in draft 2019)

Dr Kenneth Geers, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Ambassador, NATO Cyber Centre (USA/Mozambique)

Kenneth Geers is an Atlantic Council Senior Fellow and a NATO Cyber Centre Ambassador. Kenneth served for 20 years in the U.S. Government, the Army, National Security Agency (NSA), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and NATO. In the private sector, he was Senior Global Threat Analyst at FireEye and Senior Research Scientist at Comodo. In academia, he was a Visiting Professor at the National University of Kyiv in Ukraine. His publications include: Strategic Cyber Security, Cyber War in Perspective, The Virtual Battlefield, Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare and many articles on national and cyber security.

Speaking engagements

  • Atlantic Council: A New Initiative for Poland: A Future Global Leader in Securing the 4th Industrial Revolution, 2019, Warsaw, Poland
  • DEFCON 2017, Las Vegas, USA
  • RSA 2017 – 2019, USA
  • Cybersecurity Executive 2019, Kattilahalli, Finland

Roger A. Grimes, Data-Driven Defence Evangelist, KnowBe4 (USA)

Roger A. Grimes is a 30-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications and author of 11 books and over 1,000 magazine articles on computer security. He has spoken at many of the world’s biggest computer security conferences, been in Newsweek™ magazine, appeared on television, been interviewed for NPR’s All Things Considered™, the Wall Street Journal and been a guest on dozens of radio shows and podcasts. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee and Microsoft. He has consulted for hundreds of companies, from the largest to the smallest, around the world. He specializes in host and network security, identity management, anti-malware, hackers, honeypots, Public Key Infrastructure, Cloud security, cryptography, policy and technical writing. His certifications have included CPA, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CEH, MSCE: Security, Security+ and yada-yada others, and he has been an instructor for many of them. His writings and presentations are often known for their real-world, contrarian views. He has been the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines since 2005.

Website

Speaking engagements

RSA Conference, March 2019, USA
Blackhat, August 2018, USA
BSides Tampa 2019, USA
KB4-CON, May 2019, USA

Dr Suelette Dreyfus, Academic Specialist, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Dr Suelette Dreyfus is a Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. She did her bachelor’s degree at Columbia University (Barnard College) in New York and her Ph.D. at Monash University. She is a frequent public commentator in the media on IT-related topics. Her main research areas are: cyber security and hacking, digital privacy and anonymity, the impact of technology on integrity systems (whistleblowing) and social media as a tool for language learning in schools. She wrote Underground, the first mainstream book about computer hacking in Australia, with Julian Assange, which was subsequently made into two different films and translated into seven other languages. Rolling Stone Magazine described the work as ‘entirely original’, and the book has become a cult classic.

For her research work on the impact of digital technologies on whistleblowing, she has been invited to appear before several parliamentary committees at a state and federal level in Australia. She has co-authored several international reports and papers in this area. She works with civil society not-for-profit NGOs internationally which seek to improve the whistleblower protection structures in their society, both in law and via use of technology. She has integrated these two research areas by co-developing an experimental programme to teach journalists how to protect their whistleblower sources by improving data security and anonymity.

Her e-education research work is in the use of social media for education. She initiated an innovative cross disciplinary project using social media to teach Chinese to Australian primary school children in Australia, and English to Chinese students in China. Prior to earning her PhD and entering academia, she trained and worked as a staff journalist on a major daily newspaper in Australia. Suelette is particularly enthusiastic about encouraging and supporting women in IT.

Speaking engagements

Ethics and Transport Planning Symposium, January 2019, Melbourne, Australia
Exposing Secrets: The Past, Present and Future of US National Security Whistleblowing and Government Security, January 2019, London, UK
Splendour Forum, August 2019, Australia

Uri Rivner, Chief Cyber Officer & Co-Founder, BioCatch (Israel)

Uri Rivner has been fighting online fraud for twenty years, working closely with major financial institutions on developing strategies against cybercrime. Uri started his security career at Cyota, the anti-fraud company that was later acquired by RSA. He joined in 2000 and spent years working closely with the best fraud teams worldwide, gaining deep perspectives on cybercrime, thinking of innovative solutions and building them. Uri took a central role in developing technologies now used by thousands of financial institutions, protecting roughly one billion online banking users, and stopping billions of dollars in fraud each year.
As Head of New Technologies, Identity Protection at RSA, Uri helped corporations shape a new defence doctrine against emerging cyber threats. During his 12th year at RSA he came across an intriguing new start-up called BioCatch, an invisible biometrics company for mobile and web. It has a very cool "twist" to behavioural biometrics. Uri is currently working with the world’s leading banks and corporations on mitigating advanced cyber threats and is enjoying the thrill of an early stage start-up that can finally bring practical biometrics to the world of mobile, cloud and web.

Speaking engagements

Uri has spoken several times at the annual RSA Conference, USA
CyberWeek 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel
FraudCon 2018, Israel
CyberCrime Symposium 2015, USA

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