Women in Cloud - Governance, Security & Insights

Join us for an evening of learning, networking, and knowledge sharing as we explore how organisations create secure, well-governed cloud environments.

Our speakers will discuss practical approaches to identity governance, cloud security, and business-driven decision making, sharing real-world experiences and lessons learned along the way.

Whether you're working in cloud, security, business analysis, or just keen to expand your knowledge, we'd love to see you there!

Topics:
1. Business Analysis with AWS Security Services: GuardDuty, Security Hub and IAM Access Analyzer
Business analysis enables change within an organisation by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. When applied to AWS security, it ensures services are purposefully aligned to the organisation's risk appetite, strategic goals, and compliance obligations. It transforms Amazon GuardDuty from a threat detection tool into a quantifiable risk reduction investment, elevates AWS Security Hub from a technical dashboard into an executive-facing compliance reporting engine, and repositions IAM Access Analyzer from a policy scanner into a governance framework that protects against the most common causes of cloud breaches. Together, business analysis connects all three services into a coherent, measurable, and business-driven security strategy that enables organisations to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.

About the speaker
Hazra Ali, a Business Analyst at WorkSafe Victoria, has more than 12 years of experience in Information Technology specialising in banking and finance sector in business analysis, software development, incident management and customer service.

2. Multi-Cloud Identity Governance: Reducing Risk Through Ownership, Lifecycle, and Assurance
In this session, we will be exploring how managing identity and access becomes more complex in multi-cloud environments due to the rapid growth of identities, systems, and permission models, and how identity governance brings structure, visibility, and control through three key principles - ownership (clear accountability for identities and access), lifecycle (managing access from creation to timely removal), and assurance (continuously validating that access remains appropriate and secure) to help reduce risk, improve control, and enable secure, scalable operations across modern distributed environments.

About the speaker
Amitha Shree is an Identity Governance Manager at nbn® Australia.

Agenda:
5:30pm – Food and networking
6:00pm – Presentation 1. Business Analysis with AWS Security Services: GuardDuty, Security Hub and IAM Access Analyzer
6:40pm – Presentation 2. Multi-Cloud Identity Governance: Reducing Risk Through Ownership, Lifecycle, and Assurance
7:20pm – Networking

We’re incredibly grateful to our sponsors Confluent, Mantel and REA group — for supporting our community and making this event possible.

Join us for an evening of learning, meaningful conversations, and great company, we can’t wait to see you there!