September Community Night - Christian Azuero and Paul Dart

Hello friends,

This month we will (finally!) be an entirely standalone community event, not for profit and volunteer run. We have booked a large event space in the Multicultural Hub across from Vic Market. We are seeking a pizza / beer sponsor.

We can also really use additional volunteers to watch the door, help carry in food and drinks, or help with set up or clean up. Please send us a message if you're able to help.

This event will survive if people are involved and want to make it survive!

Cheers,
Lesley

Talk 1: Oil Under Attack: War, Cyber Threats, and Global Energy Security
This session explores how modern conflicts are reshaping global energy security by targeting oil and refinery infrastructure through both physical and cyber means. It examines how refinery process works, and how industrial control systems (ICS) within refineries, including SCADA, PLCs, and legacy protocols, can be disrupted or manipulated to create real-world consequences such as production outages, safety incidents, and supply chain instability.

By drawing parallels with hands-on OT lab environments, the session demonstrates how attackers can impact critical processes, and how defenders can detect abnormal behaviors across IT and OT networks. It highlights the importance of bridging cybersecurity practices with operational realities to protect critical energy infrastructure in an era of hybrid warfare.

Speaker:
Christian Azuero is a cybersecurity specialist and Technical System Consultant at BMM Testlabs with over five years of experience across firewall auditing, threat detection, DFIR, and regulatory compliance. He designs hands-on Blue-Team and CTF learning environments, including the Hacker Escape Room platform used by students and cybersecurity communities across Australia. Christian holds an MSc in Network & Security from Monash University and multiple industry certifications, and is passionate about making cybersecurity and OT education accessible, practical, and fun.

Talk 2: Introduction to Railways
Railways are one of the few areas of critical infrastructure that actively invites the general public into their facilities, but despite most people having travelled on a train, few people understand the systems that control them.

This talk assumes no prior railway knowledge and will give you an introduction to how train control works and include some of the speaker's anecdotes from working on both the design and cyber specialist sides of the fence for suppliers, clients and consultancies.

Speaker: Paul Dart is a chartered engineer who now focuses on cyber security. He started his career in radio and communications engineering. Now everything is just computers speaking to each other he moved to cyber security and has delivered from boardroom to ballast across a variety of railway systems.