Cyber Security 101 - Back to Basics

Join us with Jess Dodson as we talk all things security!

Time and time again - especially recently! - we're seeing breaches occurring because (with 20/20 hindsight, of course!) something incredibly simple was missed. So if it was simple, if it was basic, if it was common sense - why was it missed? This talk will highlight some of the basic security steps that keep being missed, told from the perspective of someone who's been down in the trenches and is now helping other organisations rise to the task of getting all the boring, bland, simple, basic things right - with a developer slant on it. Covering a wide range of topics including identity, server management, hybrid cloud and security systems, this talk will take us all Back to Basics. The basics are your foundations - if you don't get them right, nothing will be right.

Our speaker: Jess Dodson

Based in Brisbane, Australia and with close to 20 years of experience in the management & architecture of identity & security system platforms, a passion for fixing things and a stubbornness to push people to get the basics RIGHT, Jess wears the title of SecOps Witch proudly! Chances are if you’ve run into “girlgerms” online, you’ve spoken to Jess.

After taking a year of maternity leave, she made the jump to the corporate world in 2019. Jess is now a Senior Customer Engineer with Microsoft, where she spends most of her days presenting to customers on security and identity products and topics. In her downtime, Jess spends far too many hours playing video games & with Lego.