Jo Stewart-Rattray
I head a South Australia based advisory practice, BRM Advisory, focussed on technology and security, but since 2019 I have been on secondment as chief security officer to Silver Chain Group, a provider of in-home health and aged care services with over 100,000 clients across Western Australia, South Australia, [...]
Anna Liebel
I think IT chose me for a career rather than me choosing IT. I taught myself how to code when I was only eight years ago, and started my own IT consulting business when I was still in high school, in Year 12. I have now relished working in [...]
Daniella Traino
I am a virtual chief information security officer with an ASX listed company, and the group chief information security officer (GCISO) at Wesfarmers. A virtual CISO is essentially a cybersecurity executive who is engaged with client(s) on a part- time/project basis rather than full-time. A group CISO is accountable [...]
WHY FEMALE-LED STARTUPS NEED MORE SUPPORT
S pread as it will be between dozens of companies, the $10m allocated in LaunchVic’s new Alice Anderson Fund won’t breed unicorns overnight. But the money carries one specific condition that makes it significant indeed. The three-year sidecar investment fund – named after the woman who founded Australia’s first [...]
WHAT’S THE ART TO CREATING AN AUTHENTIC CULTURE IN ORGANISATIONS?
I n a startup team members often have multiple responsibilities, despite having a core set of accountabilities. The right organisational culture, one that creates a sense of belonging, is crucial for people to thrive and grow in such a dynamic environment. It provides every member with a ‘why,’ drives [...]
HOW TO CREATE A CULTURE OF BELONGING — AND WHY IT MATTERS
Australia’s federal government wasted no time highlighting the positive findings of its second STEM Equity Monitor upon its release in May, suggesting that women were slowly but steadily increasing their presence in STEM-industry jobs and management positions. The proportion of “key management personnel and senior managers who are women”, [...]
Beware of ransomware
Ransomware is a type of cybercrime that often makes the news, and for good reason. A ransomware incident can cripple a business, disrupt healthcare, destroy years of research and, take a lot of time and money to recover from. In 2020 a patient at a hospital in Germany lost [...]
TALENT HAS NO GENDER:
We were delighted to see our Australian partner Joanne Cooper, CEO of Australian Data Exchange and an all- round corporate powerhouse featured in the May – June 2021 edition of Women in Security magazine. Not just because it’s entirely deserved—very few people work harder or with more passion—but because, [...]