2026 WA Cyber Security Leadership Summit
28th & 29th July
The Westin Perth
Operating under high pressure, cyber security leaders play a crucial role in strengthening infrastructure, ensuring compliance, managing incidents, and fostering collaboration. They are leveraging both business and technical knowledge to enhance security resilience and preparedness.
The themes of governance, leadership, and collaboration are consistently woven into our programs, and this year is no exception. Through discussion and knowledge-sharing, the 2026 program will explore the intersection of business objectives, data protection, security principles, cyber security posture, risk assessments, human behaviour and literacy. These discussions aim to help attendees develop their own strategies and roadmaps for navigating the cyber landscape beyond 2026.
Key Topics
- Navigate the complex cybersecurity landscape – business and national priorities
- (Re)shaping how organisations approach cybersecurity – reflection on the current state of change and examination of the evolving threat landscape
- Building cyber resilience – strengthening critical infrastructure, incident response, and cross functional and industry collaboration
- Regulation and cybersecurity – balancing security, technology and business priorities
- Enhancing cyber security posture – guiding principles, standards, and best practices
- Measure your information security culture to supercharge organisational cyber resilience
- Enhancing cyber security risk analysis and resilience planning
- Business leadership – enhancing transparency, data protection, and accountability
- Examining AI, non-human agents and emerging technology risks – managing risks from deepfakes, automated cyberattacks, sophisticated phishing and social engineering campaigns
- Fostering a culture of cyber awareness – cross-functional collaboration, learning, education and digital literacy
- The future of cybersecurity – connecting technology, people, and business safely and securely
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