CybersecCon 24 - Chillisoft

18th OCTOBER 2024

Hilton Hotel, Auckland CBD, New Zealand

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EVENT OVERVIEW

If you’re part of the cybersecurity industry, CybersecCon is the must-attend event of the year. Best of all, thanks to our wonderful sponsors, CybersecCon is free too attend when you sign up. It’s educational, engaging, and focused entirely on cybersecurity! Attendees will get to watch presentations from industry leaders, participate through our live app in lively debates and discussions during expert panels, and sign up for workshops led by top vendors that delve into innovative solutions for today’s cybersecurity challenges. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with representatives from leading Gartner vendors, discussing your security needs and ideas face-to-face. At CybersecCon, your input matters. Use the interactive app to ask questions, join live Q&A sessions, and voice your opinions through polls and votes.

Test your knowledge with trivia and code challenges, embark on quests, and watch your scores climb the leaderboard for your chance to win some neat prizes! Recharge with snacks, juices, and coffee. Network with keynote speakers and panelists, reconnect with old colleagues, and make new friends. Unwind with a drink during our event-end happy hours, and for those invited, dress up for our gala dinner featuring live music, local cybersecurity comedy, and the Cyber Excellence Awards. With over 450 attendees last year, 2024 is set to be even bigger and better! Lock the date down in your calendar and register for New Zealand’s biggest cybersecurity conference!

#Keynotes #Panel Discussions #Technical Workshops #Networking #Entertainment #Learning

PROGRAMME
LINEUP BIO's
WORKSHOPS
AWARDS & GALA

Time	Activity	Info
9:00 AM	Registrations	Workshop registration & welcome coffee
9:30 AM	Workshops	Exabeam \| ESET \| Mimecast \| Qualys
11:30 AM	Lunch & Networking
12:00 PM	MAIN EVENT START
12:00 PM	Welcome	Alex Teh, Chillisoft CEO
12:20 PM	Keynote	Paul Macpherson Director of Information Security (CISO), Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua \| Five years of improving cyber security risk management at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua.
12:50 PM	Keynote	Angela Nash, AA Insurance CIO \| The Role of Generative AI in Cybersecurity
1:20 PM	Panel One	How best to use generative AI in the world of cyber security . Featuring: Angela Nash (AA Insurance, CIO), Nancy Taneja (Health New Zealand – GM, Security Capability & Partnerships), Ryan Economos (Mimecast’s Field CTO), Gareth Cox (Exabeam VP of APJ), Reinhart Hansen (Imperva CTO)
2:05 PM	Break	Networking session with nibbles & coffee served
2:45 PM	Panel Two	Platform vs Integrated Best in Breed, which is better? Francois Marais (Warehouse Group) Security Architect, Dane Blackmore (Netskope, Country Manager), Paul Digby (Qualys, ANZ Channel Sales Director), Simon Howe (ExtraHop, Area Vice President
3:30 PM	Keynote	Phil Ross (Air New Zealand, CISO), speaking on “The importance of securing your agile identity in a modern-day corporate environment.”
4:00 PM	Keynote	Christophe Demoor (Auckland Transport, CISO), speaking about 'One year on from AT's breach'.
4:30 PM	Panel Three	Supply-chain attacks causing Identity theft and misuse of privilege access \| PANELISTS: Christophe Demoor, Auckland Transport, CISO, Phil Ross, Air New Zealand CISO, Ursy Saunders, Security Scorecard Director,
5:15 PM	MAIN EVENT END
5:15 PM	Exabeam Happy Hours	Drinks, snacks and networking!
7:00 PM	GALA DINNER OPEN	Thanks to Mimecast
7:15 PM	Welcome Note	Alex Teh (Chillisoft, CEO)
7:20 PM	Guest Speaker	TBA
7:30 PM	Live Band	RP3 Jazz Trio
7:35 PM	Mimecast Buffet Dinner
8:30 PM	Comedian	TBA
9:00 PM	Cyber Excellence Awards	Announcing: CISO of the Year, CyberSec Woman of the Year, SOC Analyst of the Year, SOC Team of the Year. Thanks to Mimecast!
10:00 PM	Closing Note	Geoff Cossey (Chillisoft, Founder & Owner)
10:05 PM	After-Party	RP3 Jazz Trio
12:00 PM	Event End

Keynote Speakers

Speaking on current cybersecurity affairs, their story and often, on their strategies sand approach, CybersecCon features keynotes from revered industry experts!
More speakers will be announced closer to the event!

Angela Nash - AA Insurance | CIO

Angela is an experienced and accomplished Technology Executive who has led companies through significant technology and transformational change. She recently joined AA Insurance as CIO after several years as Chief Information & Technology Officer at New Zealand Rugby. Angela is responsible for AA Insurance’s Digital, Data & Technology teams to create more great experiences for its customers now and into the future. Angela has worked in several executive technology and leadership roles in both the public and private sector, across sectors such as Telecommunications, Consulting, Solutions Delivery & National Sporting Organisations. In addition to her professional experience, Angela works on various boards and committees and is a member of the Institute of Directors. In 2023, she was awarded the IDC & Brightstar CIO of the Year and is ranked #2 on the Foundry CIO Top 50 >>>>

Paul Macpherson - Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua | Director of Information Security (CISO)

Paul Macpherson leads the Information Security team for Te Pūtea Matua, with responsibility for managing information and cyber security risks across the organisation.

The Information Security team plays a critical role in ensuring the security and privacy of information entrusted to Te Pūtea Matua as kaitiaki of New Zealand’s financial system.

Paul has over 30 years’ experience in information security administration, consulting and management roles across the public and private sector. Previously he held information security management roles at Westpac NZ and Xero, and spent 10 years with KPMG where he provided information security consulting and audit services to clients globally. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).

Paul will speak of the work his team have done over the last five years to improve cyber security risk management at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua. He will highlight his team’s focus on taking a holistic, business led approach to reduce risks and ensure that the organisation meets its compliance obligations. He’ll outline these compliance obligations and discuss the dichotomy of supporting both a regulated entity and the regulator within one organisation. Paul will also take you through the tools and processes implemented to support risk management and assurance across technology and security at the RBNZ.

Christophe Demoor - Auckland Transport | CISO

Hailing from Belgium and married to a Kiwi, Christophe started and spent most of his career in Europe, though New Zealand isn’t entirely unfamiliar: he worked with the Dairy Board in Wellington from 2001-2002 as a System Engineer.

On return to Brussels, he spent two years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Network and Security Engineer and then worked for a decade in retail with the Delhaize Group in his native Belgium as Network and Security Manager, then took a position in telecom with Telenet as Manager Security Engineering and subsequently Infrastructure Strategy Manager.

Before returning to New Zealand in 2021, Christophe held the position of Head of eConnectivity at global pharmaceutical company UCB. When back in New Zealand, Christophe was Cyber Security Consultant for two MSP’s and now Head of Technology Security (CISO).

Christophe will be speaking about ‘Auckland Transport, one year on from that breach….’

Phil Ross - Air New Zealand | CISO

Phil is a seasoned Chief Information Security Officer with over two decades of experience in safeguarding critical infrastructure across aerospace, banking, healthcare, telecommunications, and government sectors. Working closely with executives and board directors, Phil has enhanced the cybersecurity posture of nationally critical organisations across Europe. After completing his European tenure Phil sailed back to Aotearoa, where he now leads a large team of Cyber and Identity innovators at Air New Zealand. He serves on multiple advisory boards and the Executive Council of Digital Internet New Zealand.

Alex Teh - Chillisoft | CEO

Alex Teh is a cybersecurity business leader with over 20 years of proven industry success. Over a 16-year period as Director and founder of Vigil Software, Alex built the company from a start-up into a $44 million plus turnover operation. Vigil Software was then sold to a Pan-European company in 2016. Since joining Chillisoft as CEO, Alex has spearheaded the transformation of the company, turning Chillisoft from primarily working as ESET NZ, into a multi-Gartner leading vendor business. Chillisoft are now proud distributors of ESET, LogRhythm, CyberArk, Imperva, Help Systems, Netskope, Extrahop, Radware, Mimecast, Attack IQ and more. Chillisoft has since won many awards, including: 2020, 2021 and 2022 LogRhythm distributor of the year. 2021 Imperva APJ Partner of the year. 2020 Reseller News Specialist distributor and most recently, 2022 Reseller News Distributor Innovation Specialist.

Alex has been dedicated to building and growing sales, technical and marketing teams, with focus on achieving accelerated growth through ensuring high levels of integrity and excellence in cybersecurity. Alex works in a direct touch channel sales capacity, having sold and marketed to over 5,000 partners in EMEA and ANZ who trusted Chillisoft to provide commercial and technical value back to their customers. Chillisoft no works with over 2,000 partners in the ANZ market. Alex is a subject matter expert in all aspects of cyber security including; Next Generation Firewalls, SD-Wan, SASE, Data Loss Prevention, Cloud security, SIEM, WAF, DDOS, Email and Web security, Identity and Cloud Access Management (MFA, PAM, SSO), End point security (EDR), Network detection and response (NDR) and Mobile security.

Most keen on helping business build SOC’s and security services, Alex is highly passionate about cybersecurity. Most of all, Alex is dedicated to helping make the right security solutions available, bringing the best in cyberseucity to New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific!

Panel Speakers

Nancy Taneja – Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora | GM, Security Capability & Partnerships

Nancy Taneja is the Group Manager for Security Capability & Partnerships at Health New Zealand. In her former roles she has worked as Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer.

Nancy is a seasoned technology and security leader with more than 20 years of global work experience. Over the last eight years she has worked extensively in NZ healthcare sector on transformation technology and security initiatives. She is currently also involved with secure AI deployment at an enterprise level.

For her work on cyber security and partnerships she received the NZ Cybersec Woman of the Year excellence award in 2023.

“I love technology in all shapes, forms and sizes. As a fervent technologist, I am deeply entrenched in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation, and I relish the challenges that technology presents, security being one of the biggest of them all.

Yet my passion extends beyond the confines of technology and security. Contributing to the community is my compass. For me, the true enchantment of technology lies in its capacity to connect us and empower us.”, she says.

Francois Marais - Warehouse Group | Security Architect

With over two decades of expertise in cybersecurity, Francois Marais has a distinguished career that began 23 years ago in South Africa as a security consultant. Emigrating to New Zealand 16 and a half years ago, Francois served as the territory manager for RSA Security, guiding significant regional security initiatives. Transitioning to independent consulting, he has delivered critical security solutions across New Zealand’s health, telecommunications, banking, insurance, and start-up sectors.

In 2023, Francois took on a pivotal role as a Security Architect at The Warehouse Group, focusing on retail and specialising in information security architecture, leveraging extensive experience to fortify the retail sector’s cybersecurity defences. Additionally, he founded CyberSeeker, further showcasing a commitment to enhancing cybersecurity landscapes.

Dane Blackmore - Netskope | Country Manager

Dane Blackmore is the country manager for Netskope, and has over a decade of experience working on digital transformation and cyber security objectives with business and government orgs of all sizes.

He is passionate about helping organisations to use zero trust architecture and cybersecurity to safely exploit one of their most valuable assets – customer data.

Simon Howe - Extrahop | Area Vice President

Simon is the Area Vice President for ExtraHop. A respected industry expert in the APJ region with over 25 years of sales and management experience Simon collaborates with the cyber security community to inform and uplift cyber security programs and capability. Previous to this role, Simon was responsible for building and managing relationships with organisations in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for AttackIQ. Simon has also held senior sales and leadership roles at LogRhythm where he served as Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific, Symantec, Commvault and Acronis. Originally from the UK, Simon has lived in Sydney since 1998.

Gareth Cox - Exabeam | VP of APJ

An experienced cyber security professional with extensive experience throughout the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, Gareth has filled the role of Vice President for leading security intelligence organisation Exabeam since 2018. With 16 years seniority in the industry, Gareth has led Exabeam’s APJ operations to become the highest growth region for the company over the past five years. During that time, Gareth and his team have successfully deployed security solutions in a number of ASX 200 and Fortune 500 companies across the region in addition to setting up a strong partner ecosystem.

Prior to running the APJ business and strategy for Exabeam, Gareth launched Skyhigh Networks, a Cloud Access Security Broker in APJ that was acquired by McAfee in January 2018. Prior to Skyhigh, Gareth ran Check Point Software’s financial services division, where he learned to manage operational complexity within large FSI organisations

Reinhart Hansen - Imperva (A Thales Company)| Director of Technology

Reinhart is an experienced Information Technology and Cyber Security leader of over 30 years. His career, founded on a degree in Computer Science from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), has a demonstrated history of working in technology leadership, advisory and sales/pre-sales roles that help businesses uncover and explore new opportunities for growth.

With a strong technical and entrepreneurial background, Reinhart founded a company earlier in his career that successfully developed and sold authentication security reporting and billing software to enterprises worldwide. The company and technology were later acquired by a global 2FA vendor.

Today, Reinhart has a large focus on cyber security and technology innovation powered by AI and automation. He helps organisations understand how they can source, build, and leverage technology to drive better business outcomes, while at the same time understand and manage their cyber risk. As a pragmatic technologist, he understands the importance that people and process play in the success of securing an organisation’s users, applications, infrastructure, and most importantly their data from cyber threats and cyber-attacks.

Ryan Economos - Mimecast | Field CTO

Ryan Economos is Mimecast’s Field CTO and is at the intersection between business and technology. With over 15 years of broad technology experience, he has focused on cyber security for the last decade. Through the lens of organisational risk, he works with organisations across the Asia Pacific region delivering on their cyber resilience outcomes.

Sam Salihi - Qualys | Managing Director ANZ

With over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, Sam has built a remarkable career trajectory. He has held key roles at reputable organizations such as Spectrum in UAE, Extol Corporation in Malaysia, IPSec, Optus, and Trustwave in Australia, where he served as the APAC Sales Director. Throughout his professional journey, Sam has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills in driving successful sales teams and highlighting the business value and return on investment (ROI) of diverse cybersecurity solutions. Sam holds a master’s degree in engineering management from Malaysia’s Universiti Tenaga Nasional, adding a solid academic foundation to his practical expertise in the field.

Ursula Saunders - SecurityScorecard | Country Director

Experienced Cyber Security Professional with over 25+ years across Telecommunications and Cyber Security, Ursula is committed to helping organisations understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity. Passionate about listening and executing on customer requirements, to provide organisations with measurable outcomes, and build trusted and long-term partnerships. Contributing and sharing Cyber Security knowledge and expertise across our industry is key to helping us fight the good fight.

Workshop Hosts

Mimecast Workshop

Matt Youman - Mimecast | Senior Sales Engineer

Matt Youman is Mimecast’s Senior Sales Engineer, bringing a wealth of experience spanning across APAC, he has empowered sales teams and customers with technical expertise. Drawing on previous experience working to tackle complex problems and create lasting value, Matt builds strong relationships with clients and partners alike. As a continuous learner, he stays abreast of emerging technologies and best practices, readily sharing his knowledge and insights with colleagues and peers.

ESET Workshop

Brad Collins - Chillisoft | ESET Enterprise and MSP Business Manager

Brad Collins is the Enterprise and MSP Business Manager for ESET, focusing on our MSP partners and customers with our Complete, Enterprise and Elite products with the goal of allowing our MSPs to increase the security of their customers in an easy and cost effective manner. Brad has worked in IT Companies and MSPs for just over 20 years including growing one of those companies from 6 to 55 staff and is applying his wealth of real world experience in customer expectations and security solutions in this role to discuss the wider ESET product stack with MSPs.

Qualys Workshop

Paul Digby - Qualys | Channel Sales Director

Having lived and worked in UK, Europe, North America, the Middle East, Singapore and ANZ, Paul has held executive & leadership roles, across Cyber Security, ICT, Telecommunications, FSI and logistics, though always in B2B – where he relishes the complexities & nuances of the market. ‘Things are seldom black or white in B2B. Where’s there’s grey there’s gold!’

Currently owning & leading out Qualys’ ‘Channel First” ANZ regional channel strategy, with a ‘Quality over Quantity’ partnering philosophy and working closely with Qualys’ exclusive NZ distribution partner Chillisoft, has seen revenue and margin growth out-perform the market.

Paul is passionate about cutting through the all too often, self-induced complexities in the vendor and channel world, to provide Partners and End-Customers with a compelling and differentiated value proposition, that above all else, is relevant to them.

Key to Paul’s success is a collaborative & entrepreneurial spirit, high integrity, reputation, and professionalism.

Special Guests

Event Hosts & Entertainers

Holli Lovesy | Stage Host

Holli is an accomplished creative with a diverse background in project management, documentary filmmaking, television production, content creation, and entrepreneurship. With a passion for creating meaningful and impactful story-telling experiences, Holli has excelled in both corporate and creative settings, delivering outstanding results. Her involvement within the New Zealand Media & Broadcasting Industry has provided Holli with a wealth of expertise and development of her magnetic stage presence.

RP3 Jazz Trio

Formed in 2008, this intimate guitar, bass and drum trio features three of New Zealand’s premiere jazz artists. Playing original and standard material ranging from swing and Latin to contemporary jazz, this stylish trio has enthralled festival and corporate crowds alike at concerts throughout the country.

TBA

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Please note: Workshop info may change closer to the event

Leveraging Generative AI and Machine Learning for Proactive Cyber Defense:

Detect, Investigate, and Respond Faster and More Effectively

This workshop will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage generative AI and machine learning to proactively detect, investigate, and respond to cyber incidents. Participants will learn how to:
• Implement machine learning models for real-time threat detection and anomaly identification.
• AI Powered threat hunting using NLP – Natural Language Processing
• Automate incident response activities using AI-powered tools.
• Integrate AI-driven solutions with existing security tools and workflows.
The workshop will also provide participants with an opportunity to experience the technology using real-world case studies and scenarios.

HOSTS

TBA

Mastering Cyber Risk Management

A Workshop for Proactive Security

We’ll introduce you to TruRisk, the Qualys platform based on the risk factors that matter most, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations , end-of-support software, missing agents and more.

In this workshop we will talk about measurement, communication and elimination. We will share how through Qualys, you can calculate the known and unknown cyber risk across your internal and external attack surface and quantify it in a way that meets the unique demands of your business. We’ll also dig into defining and articulating your complete cyber risk posture throughout your organization. Finally, we will discuss proactive elimination of the most critical vulnerabilities within your environment, showing you easy-to-use workflows that are designed to unify your security and IT Teams.

HOSTS

Paul Digby - Qualys | Channel Sales Director

Having lived and worked in UK, Europe, North America, the Middle East, Singapore and ANZ, Paul has held executive & leadership roles, across Cyber Security, ICT, Telecommunications, FSI and logistics, though always in B2B – where he relishes the complexities & nuances of the market. ‘Things are seldom black or white in B2B. Where’s there’s grey there’s gold!’

Currently owning & leading out Qualys’ ‘Channel First” ANZ regional channel strategy, with a ‘Quality over Quantity’ partnering philosophy and working closely with Qualys’ exclusive NZ distribution partner Chillisoft, has seen revenue and margin growth out-perform the market.

Paul is passionate about cutting through the all too often, self-induced complexities in the vendor and channel world, to provide Partners and End-Customers with a compelling and differentiated value proposition, that above all else, is relevant to them.

Key to Paul’s success is a collaborative & entrepreneurial spirit, high integrity, reputation, and professionalism

TBA

Mimecast will be hosting two back to back workshops.

Strengthen your Cybersecurity Insurance Strategy with Mimecast

Today’s CISO navigates a high pressure and complex environment battling the known and unknown threats across their organization. Cyber insurance has become an increasingly important tool for transferring risk, while cyber insurance companies have become ever-stricter in their evaluations and allocation of premiums. This workshop helps navigate those challenges and leaves attendees with four principles for a cyber insurance strategy.

Email Security Maturity Modelling – reduce risk, cost and complexity

Introductory workshop on how to approach your Email Security Maturity across people, process and platform. Understand how your email security maturity is impacted by:

– your people’s alignment to and are used in email security

– your processes and oversight to policy, playbooks and automation

– your platform configuration and integration

HOSTS

Matt Youman - Mimecast | Senior Sales Engineer

Matt Youman is Mimecast’s Senior Sales Engineer, bringing a wealth of experience spanning across APAC, he has empowered sales teams and customers with technical expertise. Drawing on previous experience working to tackle complex problems and create lasting value, Matt builds strong relationships with clients and partners alike. As a continuous learner, he stays abreast of emerging technologies and best practices, readily sharing his knowledge and insights with colleagues and peers.

Josh Gardner - Mimecast Channel Account Manager - Distribution

Joshua Gardner has over 20 years’ experience across the channel ecosystem with a background in cybersecurity, network infrastructure and cloud, built from roles across vendors, distribution and partners. Currently serving as Distribution Manager at Mimecast for ANZ, Joshua is responsible for managing distribution channels, leveraging his expertise to drive channel growth and development across the partner ecosystem.

Reducing MFA Challenges and Enhancing Patching

What are the cybersecurity threats New Zealand faces?
In this workshop, we’ll provide a summary of the types of attacks we are seeing in New Zealand via our global threat intelligence feeds. From Ransomware detections to Vulnerability Exploits we’ll cover off every type of threat, trends and top categories for the previous 12 months

Do your users find MFA tedious? Do you protect your Windows logins with MFA?
Nobody wants to pick up their phone 5 times at the start of every day. See the solution from ESET offers a single sign-on process to all of your online resources while also protecting your Windows, Server and VPN log-ins with MFA!

Are you managing your patching? Do you have to?
With our vulnerability & patch management service, we’ve had great success with partners replacing their RMM patching completely. Most found many Vulnerabilities on their PCs that were thought to have been previously fully patched! This will be covered off and we’ll be talking about some additional features coming soon as well.

Is your security team fully operational 24/7? Is it based in New Zealand?

Last year we launched our 24/7 MDR service, the only brand or distributor delivered MDR service in New Zealand. This totally unique offering has seen huge growth and we’ll be discussing how it can help you out as an MSP reseller, or for those running an IT team in-house plus some of the most interesting events we have seen.

Data Loss Prevention and Insider Risk Management with Safetica Cloud
An area of interest that is very quickly growing. We’ll be looking at how to not only prevent simple user mistakes, malicious behaviour, but also improve efficiencies in your workforce around identifying future risky users, those playing games, or even those printing more than typically expected

HOSTS

Brad Collins - ESET Enterprise and MSP Business Manager

Brad Collins is the Enterprise and MSP Business Manager for ESET, focusing on our MSP partners and customers with our Complete, Enterprise and Elite products with the goal of allowing our MSPs to increase the security of their customers in an easy and cost effective manner. Brad has worked in IT Companies and MSPs for just over 20 years including growing one of those companies from 6 to 55 staff and is applying his wealth of real world experience in customer expectations and security solutions in this role to discuss the wider ESET product stack with MSPs.

Lukesh Sadh - Pre-Sales Team Leader (Technical)

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!

This year’s gala dinner is sponsored by Mimecast. If you are interested in attending the gala, please note capacity is limited and a request must be placed during sign-up. If accepted, your attendance request will be confirmed prior to CybersecCon.

The Gala dinner is a celebration of the cybersecurity industry. It is a fantastic opportunity to network with peers and catch up with friends. The gala includes a wonderful buffet dinner freshly and purpose cooked by the Hilton. The gala will be hosted by documentary film maker and radio host, Holli Lovesy and special guests yet to be announced. As you dine, you’ll enjoy a gorgeous setting with, live music and entertainment. On stage this year, we have the sensual sound of the RP3 Jazz Trio, with a Kiwi all-star comedian TBA who will turn up the energy right before the Cyber Excellence Awards!

The Gala dinner also hosts the annual Cyber Excellence Awards!

Nominations for the awards are now open for the following categories: CISO of the Year, CyberSec Woman of the Year, SOC Analyst of the Year, SOC Team of the Year. Click the button below to read more about the Cyber Excellence Awards and to make a nomination.

AWARDS INFO & NOMINATIONS

2023 Cyber Excellence Award Winners

2023 CISO of the Year

Tony Allwood, Silverfern Farms

2023 CyberSec Woman of the Year

Nancy Taneja , Health NZ – Te Whatu Ora

2023 SOC Analyst of the Year

Fraser Dawson, Mainfreight

2023 Gala Dinner Photos

RP3 Jazz Trio

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EVENT OVERVIEW

#Keynotes #Panel Discussions #Technical Workshops #Networking #Entertainment #Learning

Keynote Speakers

Panel Speakers

Workshop Hosts

Mimecast Workshop

ESET Workshop

Qualys Workshop

Special Guests

Event Hosts & Entertainers

Leveraging Generative AI and Machine Learning for Proactive Cyber Defense:

Detect, Investigate, and Respond Faster and More Effectively

HOSTS

Mastering Cyber Risk Management

A Workshop for Proactive Security

HOSTS

Strengthen your Cybersecurity Insurance Strategy with Mimecast

Email Security Maturity Modelling – reduce risk, cost and complexity

HOSTS

Reducing MFA Challenges and Enhancing Patching

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2023 Cyber Excellence Award Winners

2023 CISO of the Year

2023 CyberSec Woman of the Year

2023 SOC Analyst of the Year

2023 Gala Dinner Photos

RP3 Jazz Trio

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

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