2020 BSides Melbourne Speakers |
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Welcome to our 2020 BSides Melbourne Speakers. Take a look around and meet these awesome individuals.
2020 Career Track
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Daniel TingLiving at the intersection of technical security, trust, customer experience, and entrepreneurship, Daniel spends his days helping organisations such as Government agencies, banks, startups and non-profits secure themselves in cyberspace. An ex-Senior Security Architect at Trustwave, now bounty-hunting, while looking for his next opportunity. In the pursuit for continued growth through collaboration, they are involved in co-organising the OWASP AppSec Day conference, co-leading the OWASP Melbourne Chapter, and co-organising the monthly technical security meetup SecTalks Melbourne.
Presenting:
Looking for Cyber Unicorns |
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Erica Hardinge and Jacqui LoustauJacqui is the Joint Head of Security Behaviours and Influence at ANZ. She is responsible for influencing and educating ANZ staff, customers and the wider community on the latest threats in order to address the human side of security. She shares this responsibility with her job share Erica Hardinge.
Jacqui holds a Bachelor of Information Systems and is CISM, CISSP certified. She is delivery driven with 18 years international experience in a range of security technologies and practical experience in different security domains within various industry sectors including a number of high profile customers across Europe and Australia. Jacqui is the author of a number of technical security white papers and author of 'The Female Consultant chapter of an international book ‘Women in the Security Profession’. Jacqui is a collaborator and connector, who pushes thinking and tries to push change within industry. She is particularly passionate about helping combat cybercrime through practical and innovative methods. In her spare time she is the founder of the Australian Women in Security Network and the Security Job Profile Project, and the Co-founder of the AWSN Cadets. Recently she also co-founded Project Friedman in partnership with WomenSpeakCyber and Emily Edgeley. Erica is also the Joint Head of Security Behaviours & Influence (Product Owner). In this position, the partners are jointly responsible for developing the global strategy for engaging and empowering secure behaviour change across customers and 40,000+ employees over ANZ’s 30+ geographies. Erica has been applying interdisciplinary approaches to what was traditionally purely a communications role for over 13 years, with prior roles in HR providing the basis for her approach. During this time Erica has observed growing interest and support for the Security Awareness function. Erica believes in the importance of simple language, clear individual action and personal relevance as key ingredients in driving a strong cyber security enablement program. Erica’s contribution to security awareness and the industry was recognised by an Australian Information Security Association award in 2016. Erica feels strongly about the role of sharing and learning across industry to improve the function. As such, is excited to have co-founded and grown the Security Influence and Trust group for Awareness professionals in the Australasia region. The group was recognised with the Australian Information Security Association “Educator of the year” award in 2017. Erica completed her MBA qualification at Melbourne Business School in 2008 following the earlier completion of a Bachelor in Arts and Science at Melbourne University, with a focus on Behavioural Sciences, including Criminology, contributing to her passion to help staff and the community become cyber safe. Presenting:
2 brains are better than 1… |
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Vaughan ShanksVaughan is co-founder and CEO of Cydarm Technologies, a Melbourne-based startup that has built a secure case management platform for cybersecurity incident response. Vaughan first developed an appreciation for information security 20 years ago while working as a UNIX systems administrator. Before founding Cydarm, Vaughan worked at a Silicon Valley-based data analytics vendor, after almost 10 years at the Department of Defence, leading devops teams and driving analytic modernisation efforts.
Presenting:
Cyber Startup 101 |
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Christopher NealI am a displaced Canadian who's worked in the UK, the US and Australia and across a variety of industries including Higher Education, Aviation, Telco, and Healthcare. While I've mostly held information security roles, I've also done desktop support, network support and project and program management.
Presenting:
So, you want to be a CISO? Are you sure? |
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NeatNitesh aka Neat is a network security graduate, a penetration tester by day, occasional bug bounty hunter, a person who scratches the internet while bored for some SOCMINT/HUMINT feeds, and a guy who is anytime ready to volunteer in a community driven infosec events - previously volunteered in Bsides Canberra, Bsides Sydney to name a few. He was also a scholar of Black Hat USA 2019 and is heavily active/engaged in local security community.
Ah! he also posts some random stuff under @MrMeterpreter (PS: Now offline for a while). |
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Andrew BairdAndrew has a 33 year career history with ANZ, working across various roles within the bank, from International Services Front Line, FX & Derivative Operations Back Office, Delivery & Support Management, Major Incident Recovery Management to developing diverse Technology Talent pathways
Andrew is an experienced technology professional with a strong people focus who enjoys developing teams and individuals to their potential and see them grow. Andrew is responsible for running the ANZ Spectrum program which employs autistic individuals and teaches them the skills needed for careers in Cyber Security and Data Services, Andrew also co-manages the Technology Graduate and Intern programs. These programs plus the teams Traineeship program with TAFE, Women in IT network and Return to Work program are tapping into diverse talent required to build the workforce of the future and building careers for all the individuals. Gallup Strengths: Harmony Relator Consistency Responsibility Connectedness Presenting:
Autistic talents in Cyber Security |
2020 Rookie Track
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Peter KydasPeter is working with EY as a graduate cybersecurity consultant and has previously spent his time running the RMIT Information Security Club. He enjoys hacking hardware, racing drones, fixing cars, and participating in CTFs (including being sent to one in Hong Kong!).
Presenting:
You CAN (Not) Drive |
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Tirath RamdasTirath is a Software Engineer with over 5 years experience working on endpoint protection solutions. Prior to working in infosec he worked in areas like NoSQL storage and scientific computing.
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Lina LauLina Lau @inversecos is the ANZ Threat Hunting and Incident Response lead at Accenture Security. Her primary interests lies in botnets, malware and exploit development.
Presenting:
Who wants to be a millionaire? |
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Patrick AbrahamPatrick is a Security Specialist at Accenture Australia where he specialises in Threat Hunting, Automation and Detection. Patrick is a big fan of all things Python.
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NiveNive is a security consultant at Shea Information Security, specialising in penetration testing and running social engineering phishing campaigns. She also co-organises haXX, a group dedicated to teaching technical security skills to women who wish to break into the security field. Nive also assists with the ethical hacking module for the masters in cyber security programme at RMIT.
Presenting:
A guided tour of EDR bypasses up until now |
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Sajeeb Lohani & Maeesha LohaniSajeeb Lohani is a senior penetration tester at Privasec and a lecturer in Melbourne University, who graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) in 2017. Sajeeb remains passionate about contributing to and improving cyber security research. Sajeeb currently holds 120+ CVEs and is the co-developer of Interlace, an open-source project. Sajeeb is also a bug bounty hunter, ranking within the top 100 within BugCrowd and top 10 within DVuln.
Sajeeb gives back regularly to the Melbourne cyber security community by founding the Monash Cyber Security Club, presenting at local meetups, and mentoring at the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) Cadets workshops. Sajeeb also runs initiatives which attempt to responsibly disclose security issues within open source software projects, making the world of software ‘more secure’. Maeesha Lohani is a passionate student, studying Computer Science, majoring in Cyber Security. Runner-up in the Women in Security Awards 2019 for “Best Student Security Leader”, Maeesha dedicates time volunteering and managing parts of the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) Cadets. |
2020 Main Track
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Gyle dela CruzDuring day time, Gyle works as a Cyber Threat Analyst for Cyber Research NZ Ltd. In her spare time, she volunteers for different causes. One of these is as a remote judge for the different Missing Persons OSINT CTFs ran by Trace Labs.
Presenting:
Using your OSINT Powers for Good |
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Chris MoberlyChris is a hacker. He is lucky enough to be paid to hack stuff, as well. He commits hacky code under the name "initstring" and occasionally writes about breaking things at https://initblog.com.
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Robert FearnRobert is a forensic/security investigator/researcher and has worked for law-enforcement and now private practise. Robert enjoys all things hex and has an unhealthy addiction to single board computers.
Presenting:
Breaking Hard Drive Encrypted Enclosures |
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Thuan PhamThuan Pham (https://thuanpv.github.io/) is currently a Research Fellow at Monash University, working on scalable and high-performance fuzz testing to improve the reliability of software systems running on IoT devices, mobile devices, personal computers, and servers. Before joining Monash, he worked in the TSUNAMi research center (National University of Singapore) which focuses on software and system security. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in July 2017. His research has led to many papers published at premier journals and conferences (TSE, ICSE, CCS) as well as one US patent. He has developed several well-received security testing tools (e.g., AFLGo, AFLSmart, AFLNet), that have found 100+ (critical) vulnerabilities in large real-world software systems. His research has been covered in media channels like Theregister.co.uk and Securityweek.com.
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Steph JensenSteph is a pentester for Shearwater Solutions/CyberCX with a background in Threat Hunting and Digital Forensics. Obsessed with all things security, Steph conducts her own security research and sometimes lets curiosity get the better of her.
Presenting:
Hack the Planet with MQTT |
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Mario AreiasA software developer turned DevSecOps. His passions are open source, security and privacy. He spent the last few years doing security in the fintech space. Now as a DevSecOps Engineer at Lendi he focus on being secure while being Agile.
Presenting:
Threat Modeling the Death Star |
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Roshan MaskeyRoshan Maskey is an incident response consultant who hunts for evil. In his spare time, he codes and explores offensive toolkits.
Presenting:
Seeking the Beacon |
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Noushin ShababNoushin is a senior security researcher in the Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) at kaspersky. Her research focuses on the investigation of advanced cyber criminal activities and targeted attacks with a particular focus on local threats in the Asia Pacific region.
Noushin is very active in the local cyber security community in Australia and New Zealand by regularly presenting at various security conferences and events and also delivering technical workshops. |
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Daniel EdenDaniel is one half of nightHawkResponse and recently teamed up as co director of Caccia Cyber, an Australian cyber security company focusing on forensics, incident response and analytics. Daniel has worked for NBNco, ANZ Bank (CSIRT) and Secureworks as a lead incident responder and log analysis mega nerd. He holds both the GREM and GXPN certifications and has presented a Ruxcon and Melbourne Reverse Engineering conferences on numerous topics including forensics, open source technology and malware RE.
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Matt WeinerMatt works as an incident responder for an Australian telco. Prior to this, he was 13 years at the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in roles including criminal intelligence and digital forensics. His spare time is spent with his family and hunting for the best coffee in Melbourne.
Presenting:
Join the DFIR CyberChef Cult |
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Mike TozerMike is the founder & CEO of Xceptional, a multi-award-winning tech platform that connects autistic people to jobs in IT. Mike has been featured on ABC’s Employable Me, spoken at the CAST Association for Software Testing conference, TEDx Hong Kong and advised companies across the banking and tech sectors.
Equipped with studies in physics and computing at Oxford and public policy at Harvard, Mike has spent his career at the intersection between innovation, social impact and systems change. For 12 years, he worked in agile software teams in Hong Kong. His team built international systems to connect multinational corporations with nonprofits and 25 United Nations organisations. Mike and Xceptional have been recognised by a number of awards, including Westpac Business of Tomorrow, Optus Future Makers and the AMP Tomorrow Fund. Recently, Xceptional won the Google.org Impact Challenge of $1 million for their autism-friendly app, with the aim of impacting thousands of job seekers with autism. In his spare time, Mike is an elite runner with Team Brooks and has the world record for the fastest half marathon in a business suit. |
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David GriceI love security, developers, applications and things in the cloud.
Purveyor of DevSecOps through the conduit of Security Architecture however I'm not afraid to roll up my sleeves and muck in with developers, ops & SRE. |
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Troy DeftyHaving worked in the UK InfoSec industry for around five and a half years at Deloitte and later Context Information Security, Troy abandoned a dreary sun-less London and has been working in the Australian industry out of Sydney for over a year with Pure Security. His interest and experience is largely in bespoke penetration testing engagements (red teaming, ICS, scenario-based assessments, etc.), with broad coverage across the penetration testing spectrum. Other interests include music, electronics, the outdoors, travel, rugby, CTF, and being bad at golf.
Presenting:
Operational Security in Penetration Testing |
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Mike ThompsonMike is an IoT expert with an extensive background in Information and Cyber Security. Among Mike’s many roles, he has worked as a CISO, consulted to over 50 organisations, uncovered computer fraud, legally hacked organisations, designed and developed award-winning software solutions and has provided investigation and advisory services at the highest levels in government across topics as diverse as biometrics and satellite surveillance systems.
Presenting:
Show & Tell - DIY Malicious WiFi Hardware |
Panels & Workshops
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