Nicole Murdoch Founding Director at EAGLEGATE Lawyers
I ’m an intellectual property and technology lawyer with my own practice, EAGLEGATE Lawyers, a firm I founded in 2018. I assist clients to protect and commercialise their businesses and ideas. I love technology and very much enjoy helping people turn their ideas into viable and saleable businesses. I [...]
Manal al-Sharif Author of Daring to Drive
I am a Cyber Security Strategist and enthusiast. As a cyber security strategist, I lead the development of the organisation’s cyber security strategy and roadmap that aligns with the business objectives and focuses on mitigating the cyber risks with minimum investments. Inputs to take into consideration in developing an [...]
MY CYBERSECURITY JOURNEY
My university qualification, a Bachelor of Arts in history, was about as far from cybersecurity as you can get. I don’t think it has held me back in my career but I did have to do quite a bit of self- study that might have been unnecessary had I [...]
Catherine Dolle-Samuel Business Continuity and Resilience Specialist at UNSW
I ’m a business continuity and resilience (BC&R) specialist at the University of NSW (UNSW), which means I’m responsible for managing the university’s business continuity and resilience program. This involves managing a full continuity & resilience lifecycle program - understanding critical functions, developing recovery plans, identifying improvements in the [...]
Dr Michelle Ellis Outreach and Engagement Coordinator Computing and Security at Edith Cowan University
I ’m the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator: Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. I get to work with the university’s aspiring female computing and security students, talented industry women, and a supportive Perth community. As far as I know the [...]
COVID-19 themed cybercrime
Anyone can become a victim of cybercrime, and therefore it is important we all stay aware and remain vigilant to maintain our individual cybersecurity. Email remains one of the main vectors criminals use to obtain account credentials, steal credit card numbers, and to trick people into installing malware on [...]
BEWARE THE BRILLIANT CYBERSECURITY JERK!
T here’s usually at least one in every organisation. They may be brilliant at the core competencies of their role, but as a co-worker or manager they’re a disaster, because of their personality and the ways in which they interact with others. Jinan Budge, principal analyst serving security & [...]
CALL TO ACTION: WE MUST CHANGE
Time and time again, at security conferences, International Women’s Day events, in the workplace, women have come forward to share their stories of abuse, harassment, and discrimination. All too often nothing changes. Colleagues don’t believe those who’ve come forward, management quietly fires the woman to save a man’s reputation, [...]
WITHOUT A DIVERSE CYBER WORKFORCE, YOUR SECURITY TRANSFORMATION HASN’T GOT A CHANCE
The discussion about diversity in cybersecurity teams has taken on a new urgency in 2021, fuelled by the vaccine-led pivot away from the COVID-19 pandemic and stoked by growing national outrage over the inequal treatment of women in the workplace. Yet as Australians head back to workplaces that have [...]