SecTalks Perth 0x6A

Sectalks 0x6A
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# 0 - I am deeply ~~technical~~ curious

The cyber security community is frequently divided by the notion of technical folk and non-technical folk, with a farcical value proposition that greatest benefits and impacts align where there is density of technical folk. This talk will proposition that not only is the term technical fatuous when determining value, it unnecessarily creates division and disbenefit. The cyber community needs more deeply curious individuals. We’ll examine the definition of technical (it’s used in Basketball!); the power of asking questions; and how leadership can generate culture, vibe, innovation, resiliency and high productivity through questions!

Then we’ll get really exciting and examine the questions that the cyber community isn’t asking but should be!

Shana Uhlmann (she/her) is the IT Director at Tattarang and Chief Information Security Officer for Tattarang and the Minderoo Foundation. Prior to this she was Assistant Director-General Cyber Defence Capability at the Australian Cyber Security Centre, responsible for delivery of a variety of cyber defence capabilities under both CESAR and REDSPICE programs. Shana brings nearly 20 years Government experience in cyber operations and capability development, including time spent in UK as a technology and tradecraft liaison. In these roles, Shana was noted for successfully delivering outcomes against a breadth of key Government investment programs spanning network engineering, cloud infrastructure, key management and active cyber defence capabilities. Shana is passionate about the future of identity and data and asking the right questions to articulate threat and drive cyber investment dollars further. She combines this passion with her past experiences to craft pragmatic cyber security approaches to modern business challenges.

John Uhlmann (he/him) is a Security Research Engineer at Elastic where he works on the Elastic Endpoint (EDR) Windows agent. His research into detecting modern in-memory malware threats has been presented at Black Hat Asia and BSides Canberra. Prior to this he did similar work at the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

# 1 - Bar?
After some chit chat from the talk, let's head to 43 Below, mingle, and chat (we still don't have a better idea for a bar)