Explore the CybersecCon 2025 Workshops

Tony Johnson has over two decades of experience in the IT industry, with the past 10 years spent as a Systems Engineer at Outsource IT and now operating as a Solutions Architect. Known within his company as the go-to expert when something needs to be hacked into, critical data recovered, or security vulnerabilities identified, Tony has developed a deep, practical understanding of cyber threats. His hands-on experience in uncovering weaknesses has fostered a strong commitment to building secure, resilient systems, making him a passionate advocate for robust cyber security practices.

Working at ESET for over a decade, Peter grew through the ranks and bolstered his leadership skills. Since 2017, he has been the Security Research and Awareness Manager for ESET. Now, based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Peter leads a multinational team of cybersecurity researchers, awareness specialists and editors. His team is responsible for experimental research, awareness and research publication process, and for a threat telemetry framework. Peter oversees the creation of the bi-annual ESET Threat Reports, as well as the production of the ESET research podcast. When not sitting at his computer, he enjoys the outdoors and everything to do with coffee, both factoring in his decision to call Christchurch home.

Lukesh is a Certified Cybersecurity Expert with 8+ Years of IT Industry Experience. He has a proven track record in solution building, particularly in prioritizing and developing the EDR security platform at Chillisoft. Lukesh holds certifications as a Netskope, ESET, and LogRhythm Certified Engineer, as well as being a certified ESET and LogRhythm Trainer. Notably, Lukesh has conducted 43 successful trainings across New Zealand!

Exabeam Chief Security Strategist, Host of The New CISO Podcast, and Co-Founder TEN18 

Stephen Moore is the Chief Security Strategist at Exabeam, a co-founder of TEN18, and the host of The New CISO podcast. He has over 20 years of experience in information security, including intrusion analysis, threat intelligence, and security architecture. Before joining Exabeam, Stephen spent seven years at Elevance, a Fortune 20 company, where he held various leadership roles in cybersecurity. During his tenure, he notably established their Cybersecurity Analytics capability and Security Operations Center (SOC), eventually advancing to an officer-level position. Stephen has extensive experience in identifying, responding to, and remediating nation-state espionage, insider threats, and criminal adversaries. He also serves as an advisor to several cybersecurity companies and often works as an executive breach response coach. 

Paul Prokop, Senior Solutions Architect for Exabeam, has been dedicated to IT Security. With 25 years of dual experience as both a client and provider, Paul is fueled with a drive to surpass performance objectives, thriving amidst dynamic business landscapes, and rapidly adapting to evolving technological challenges. Paul works closely with customers to reduce risk with Exabeam’s award-winning platform and readily adapt to evolving business and technology challenges. Prior to LogRhythm, Paul held various roles within IT security at Check Point, CyberArk and Fairfax Media, where he deepened his technical expertise in IT security, architecture and operations.

Jin Yean Tan brings deep expertise in cybersecurity and a strong track record in helping organizations enhance their threat detection and response capabilities. As a Senior Solutions Engineer at Exabeam, he enables security teams to leverage user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), automation, and modern SIEM solutions to stay ahead of evolving threats. Known for his ability to translate complex security challenges into clear solutions, Jin Yean is a trusted partner to both technical teams and executive stakeholders across the APAC region.

With over 8 years of cybersecurity presales experience, Scott Jenner specialises in helping organisations of all sizes navigate today’s complex threat landscape. As a trusted advisor to resellers and MSPs across the APAC region, Scott excels at translating technical security concepts into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences. His collaborative approach and deep industry knowledge enable him to tailor effective solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses—from small enterprises to large multinationals.

Darren is a seasoned security professional with over 30 years’ experience, starting with 12 years in the UK military dealing with crypto and communications security. Head hunted in 2007, took the step and became a senior firewall specialist for Telecom NZ (now Spark NZ). Darren has been with Tower Insurance for 6 years and has spent the past couple of years as the Head of Information Security, being responsible for all aspects of cyber security across the NZ and Pacific Islands operations. Being a thought leader in cyber, Darren encourages businesses to take leading edge approaches in cyber technology and processes, whilst instilling good governance across the business.

Himanshu Kathpal is Vice President of Product Management, Platform and Technologies at Qualys. With 15+ years’ experience, he leads teams delivering solutions for Continuous Threat Exposure Management, Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, Artificial Intelligence Security Posture Management, Application Security, and Development Security Operations. Himanshu specializes in product strategy, go-to-market, and innovation to strengthen customer security and drive business growth

With over two decades in cybersecurity, Andrew Younger is a seasoned Senior Sales Engineer at WatchGuard Technologies, bringing deep expertise in secure network architecture, cloud protection, and threat detection and response. Based in Melbourne, Andrew Younger has held senior technical and leadership roles across industry leaders including Thales, Gemalto, Senetas, and SafeNet. He is known for bridging technical depth with commercial insight to deliver practical, outcome-driven solutions for customers across A/NZ.

Adam has over two decades of hands-on and leadership experience architecting, operating, automating, and testing Security Operations Centers for Detection and Response. As a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO), Adam offers expertise in securing and monitoring AWS, Azure, Windows, Mac, and Linux with cutting-edge tools such as Firewalls, Email Gateways, EDR, SIEM, and SOAR, having developed a market leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) vendor named ActZero to manage hundreds of customer SOCs globally. Adam also lead an in-house consulting service called the VCISO program at ActZero, which offers vertical-specific expertise in compliance and hardening for Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Privacy, and Financial regulations and best practices.

Adam has worked in 24/7 mission-critical war rooms to actively respond to fast-moving adversaries from BlackCat/AlphaV, Maze, Royal, and DarkSide ransomware actors. He has successfully protected customer bases across many different environments from the endpoint, network, cloud, and mobile security events, with 10ms system response times, 16-minute MTTRs, and 1-hour remediations while scaling to meet new customer and security demands.

Adam brings the architecture for threat intelligence, red-team testing, and MITRE mapping to various vulnerability, compliance, and monitoring tools. This approach helps demonstrate our current state to senior leadership in daily, weekly, and monthly briefings with other teams such as DevOps, SRE, Customer Experience, Management, and the board of directors. Adam also brings a strategic approach to help the teams around him build world-class products to flourish by seamlessly enabling security in the software development lifecycle and operation. He has also run security awareness programs and compliance/infosec for SOC2, PCI, CMMC, and FEDRAMP programs to ensure products meet the highest standards to service financial, automotive, department of Defense, and healthcare standards.