2025 WA Cyber Security Leadership Summit
6th & 7th August
The Westin Perth
The WA Cyber Security Leadership Summit survey from last year highlighted over 25 business priorities from attendees, including digital transformation, cost reduction, and enhancing operational efficiency. Cybersecurity leaders continue to prioritise strategy, risk management, business continuity planning, governance, and collaboration as they navigate the evolving business landscape.
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 2025 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 2025.
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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Featured Presenters
Dan Benporath
CISO
APM
Sameera Bandara
General Manager, Cybersecurity
Programmed
Mia Araminta
Cybersecurity Resilience
South32
Jason Pearce
Field CTO, APJ
Claroty
Simon Howard
CTO
Bastion Security Group
Prashant Singh
Cyber Security Manager
Department of Education WA
Matt Berry
Field CTO & SE
Abnormal AI
Andrew Bullen
Manager Cyber Security
St John WA
Spencer Lai
Principal of Information Security & Risk
CITIC Pacific Mining
Dinda Timperon
Head of Cyber Security Engineering
Insignia Financial
Andrew Garside
Group Manager ICT & Cyber Security
Bethanie
Shana Uhlmann
General Manager, Technology
Perth Airport
Brett Winterford
Vice President, Threat Intelligence
Okta
Vannessa Van Beek
Global CISO
Fortescue
Trevlyn Farrar
A/ Manager, Cyber Security, ICT Strategy & Governance
Department of Health, WA
Jason Fraser
Head of Cyber & Infrastructure
Capricorn Society
Andrew Fox
Advisor
IBRS
Josh Watson-Kubat
Cyber Security Specialist
City of Wanneroo
Senior Representative
Director
Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)
Principal Partner
Gold Partners
Summit Partners
