About Us
BSides Melbourne is made up by a bunch of info sec friends and colleagues with 20+ years behind them who simple want to make a positive impact to the Melbourne community. We are driven by sharing information, have a huge passion for growth in our industry where researchers can present their work and everybody has an opportunity to learn and network.
- Meet our Review Board
- Meet our Mentor
2018 Review Board
BSides Melbourne are honoured to have the following security professionals on our Review Board
Rob SmithRob has been in the security industry for nearly 20 years. He has had a wide range of roles, experiences and skills - including consulting, penetration testing, vulnerability research, architecture, strategy and now runs intel/SOC/IR at a major Australian bank. He loves mixing the offensive to drive the defensive!
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Kathy RobinsKatherine is a Partner in Cyber Security within Deloitte Australia’s Risk Advisory service line. Katherine’s expertise is as a technical cyber security professional with over 20 years’ experience across all areas of security (e.g. vulnerability management, penetration testing, security operations, security engineering, architecture and design, risk and compliance, cloud security, new and emerging technologies).
Prior to joining Deloitte Australia, Katherine worked across many industry verticals and across many sub domains. She has worked in financial services, automotive, consulting, telecommunications, mining and higher education sectors. Katherine is a passionate about cyber security and technology, often presenting on emerging technologies and cyber security topics. |
Justin WaiteDirector of a Security Consultancy with over 15 years experience in some of Australia's largest organisations. He has worked in three of Australia’s largest banks over the past 17 years and many other big companies - establishing, growing, and running security capabilities. Previously as Head of CERT at a major bank, he led proactive security capabilities including penetration testing, security intelligence, threat management, security monitoring and e-fraud detection, as well as managing reactive incident response and forensics.
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Julian BertonJulian is an Application Security Engineer at SEEK, organiser of appsecday.io and a chapter lead of the OWASP Melbourne chapter. He also regularly gives talks aimed to educate security and technology professionals. A few recent presentations have been at NDC Sydney, TConf, DDD Melbourne, CrikeyCon, OWASP AppSec Day, OWASP Melbourne and Node.js meetups.
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Phil YoungSoldier of FORTRAN is a Mainframe Security Researcher with a large financial institution. Both professionally and in his spare time he works to educate people about the mainframe platform (z/OS) and the enterprises’ critical dependence on this product. His initial research began due to his concern of his perceived imbalanced reliance on the platform yet the utter lack of open discussion by cybersecurity experts about it. In his travels he has encountered all types of poorly configured environments and has spoken out publicly about his concerns. He has spoken at multiple conferences including SHARE, DEFCON, BlackHat, GSE Europe, etc. In his spare time he enjoys retro gaming with his two sons and making ANSI art.
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Meet our Mentors
BSides Melbourne are introducing a lightning track to help encourage students and first time speakers take the stage and discuss their work. We have some amazing mentors who are offering their time to work and help equip those individuals with the skills they need to be successful.
Emily EdgeleyEmily Edgeley helps transform people from being unsure about presenting or simply ‘talking to slides’, to being able to influence and inspire an audience to action confidently.
When Emily started in the workforce, she was crippled with fear about presenting. However, she was determined to not only conquer that fear, but to learn the techniques and secrets of the world’s best speakers, in order to master this critical life skill. Over a period years, she made that her mission and now passes on those lessons to others. She is a past President and Vice President Education of ‘Off The Cuff’ Toastmasters Club which saw her coach and evaluate members on their presenting skills and organise quarterly Speechathons. She regularly runs storytelling, presenting or pitching workshops and 1:1 coaching. She’s constantly reading books about the power and art of presenting, refining a message or storytelling and regularly shares relevant tips on LinkedIn. |
Kirstin McIntoshKirstin is the Head of Partnerships for CyRise, Australia’s cyber security venture accelerator, here in Melbourne. Kirstin has spent 23 years traversing the globe in BD and corporate partnership positions. Her journey to CyRise has come via a food startup in Australia, corporate partnership roles in the UK, steel marketing in China and investment analysis in Singapore. She has been a mentor in the Tech Girls Movement and part of the #TechDiversity Awards team. She has an MBA from IMD Switzerland. Kirstin believes that acronyms are a barrier to real communication.
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