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Cyber Voices

Australian Information Security Association (AISA)

Welcome to CYBER VOICES, where we highlight and celebrate the diverse voices of the Australian cyber community. From top-ranking CISOs and government officials to threat hunters and vulnerability analysts, if there’s a voice to be heard, you’ll hear it on CYBER VOICES. Join us as we delve into the stories, insights, and expertise that shape the world of cybersecurity in Australia.

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32:03

Your Company Through the Eyes of an Info Stealer,...

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2026/09/30

Information stealing malware is not new and not sophisticated. That is precisely what worries Jesse Hoppo, who leads the open source intelligence and cyber crime team within Telstra's Threat Research and Intelligence Group, and who spends a good deal of his time reading what these things send home.Recorded at AdelaideSEC, Jesse joins David Savva-Willett after his talk on what an organisation looks like through an info stealer's eyes. He explains how the malware arrives, usually by persuading someone

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48:53

Agentic GRC and the Limits of AI, with Ian Yip and...

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2026/09/24

Governance, risk and compliance generates a great deal of manual work, and not all of it is work anyone would miss. Ian Yip's argument is that this is exactly where AI earns its place in a security team, provided nobody mistakes it for judgment.Ian is the founder and CEO of Avertro, the company behind the cyber and AI governance platform CyberHQ, and he recently delivered a standing room only session on agentic GRC at Infosecurity Europe in London. He joins David Savva-Willett along with Jack

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34:18

Are ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini Useful in a Breach...

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2026/09/16

Threat actors are already using large language models to accelerate the early stages of a compromise. Josh Lemon wanted to know what the same tools could do for the responders on the other side.Recorded at AdelaideSEC 2026, David Savva-Willett speaks with Josh Lemon, Chief of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at SoteriaSec and a SANS principal instructor, immediately after his talk on that question. Josh has been putting the major models in front of forensic evidence for years, and reports

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30:13

AI Agents as Workers, with Sharon Hunneybell

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2026/09/09

Most organisations still treat AI agents as software. Their staff do not. Agents are being used as colleagues, confidants and co-developers; they are being handed access to multiple systems, and a good number of them belong to proof-of-concept projects that quietly ended without anyone shutting off the credentials.Recorded at AdelaideSEC, David Savva-Willett speaks with Sharon Hunneybell, VP of Products at FirstWave, ahead of her talk on a governance framework for AI agents as workers. Sharon

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36:31

Post-Quantum Cryptography and Passkeys, with Geoff...

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2026/09/02

Quantum computers will one day break the cryptography that protects almost everything online. The harder questions are how much of the alarm is warranted, and what security leaders should be doing now.David Savva-Willett is joined by Geoff Schomburgk, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Yubico, and Alex Wilson, who leads solutions engineering for the region. They unpack harvest now, decrypt later and how much of it is a device for grabbing attention; what it took to get

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26:22

Everyone Has a Unique Talent: Christine Ferguson on...

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2026/08/26

Recorded live at AISA SydneySec 2026, host David Savva-Willett is joined by Christine Ferguson, Inclusion Specialist Lead in DXC Technology's Social Impact Practice, where she leads the DXC Dandelion Program. Since 2014 the program has supported over 350 neurodivergent people into sustainable technology and cyber security careers across Australia, Europe, Asia and now the Middle East.Christine had just come off stage with her SydneySec session Neurodiversity in Cyber: People, Pressure and

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34:53

The Only Criminologist in the Room: Nakshathra Suresh...

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2026/08/19

Recorded live at AISA SydneySec 2026, host David Savva-Willett sits down with Nakshathra Suresh, a cyber criminologist and one of very few people in Australia bringing a social science lens to artificial intelligence and emerging technology safety.Nakshathra is co-founder of eiris, a safety technology consultancy, Oceania Youth Ambassador for the Internet Society, and teaches with the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW where she created the university's first criminology backed cyber security

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33:45

Fighting Back: Glenn Maiden on Putting a Bounty on...

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2026/08/12

Cybercrime is not a lone hacker in a hoodie any more. It is an economy, and by some estimates a staggeringly large one. In this episode of Cyber Voices, host David Savva-Willett flips the usual script and asks not how we defend, but how we fight back.Glenn Maiden is Chief Security Officer for Fortinet Australia and Director of Threat Intelligence at FortiGuard Labs for Australia and New Zealand. He spent years in Defence and the Australian Intelligence Community working in geospatial and human

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27:26

The Ones Who Do Nothing: Ant Cohen on What Your...

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2026/08/05

On this episode of Cyber Voices, host David Savva-Willett is at the tail end of Canberra CyberConnect 2026, AISA's first ever event in the nation's capital, sitting down with a guest who has one of the best job titles in Australian cyber.Ant Cohen is Head of Security Influence and Trust at nbn. Before cyber, he built some of the most recognisable marketing campaigns this country has seen, from Oprah's Australian adventure to 25 Wallabies campervans touring New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup to a

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27:24

The Human Firewall: Darren Fleming on Staying Clear...

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2026/07/29

Every playbook and SOP you have ever written assumes it will be picked up by a calm, fully regulated human. My guest this episode reckons that assumption is exactly where incident response quietly falls apart.Recorded live at AISA's inaugural CyberConnect Canberra 2026 at the Hotel Realm, David Savva-Willett sat down with Darren Fleming, peak performance strategist, author, and the man better known as That Mindfulness Bloke. Darren represented Australia in elite sailing, studied psychology and

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36:51

Earning the Chair: How Graham Fairley Became PEXA's CISO

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2026/07/22

Most people arrive at the CISO chair from the outside. Graham Fairley did the opposite — he earned it from within.In this episode, host David Savva-Willett sits down with Graham Fairley, Chief Information Security Officer at PEXA (Property Exchange Australia), for a candid and personal conversation. Davey held the CISO role at PEXA before Graham, and the two have been friends and colleagues for the better part of a decade — which makes this a rare, honest look at what it actually takes to grow into

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19:53

Breachonomics Redux: Grant McKechnie on the Untold...

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2026/07/15

On this episode of Cyber Voices, host David Savva-Willett is on the ground at Canberra CyberConnect 2026, AISA's inaugural event in the nation's capital, sitting down with Grant McKechnie for a conversation that CFOs and board members need to hear.Grant is Managing Partner at Cyber Resilience Group and a two-decade CISO veteran of Endeavour Group, Telstra and NBN. He was named one of the top 10 CISOs in Asia Pacific in 2022 and has built greenfield cyber security functions across some of Australia's

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40:34

Rain, Hail or Shine: Chris Stannage on Cyber Run...

Cyber Voices ·

2026/07/08

This episode is a little bit different. Yes, my guest works in cyber security, but we are not here to talk about breach containment or zero trust architecture. We are here to talk about the people behind the industry and what it actually takes to show up and do this job sustainably.Chris Stannage is a Scottish born, Melbourne based Senior Account Executive at Illumio, a former competitive rugby player, and the founder of Cyber Run Club, a monthly gathering at the Tan that brings cyber professionals

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31:10

Emily Holyoake on Security Culture, Human Risk and...

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2026/07/01

Recorded live at the inaugural Canberra CyberConnect 2026, David sits down with Emily Holyoake, Executive Director and co-founder of Not A Standard and one of the creators of the SAFE Framework, a multidisciplinary approach that brings cyber security, criminology and behavioural science together to map how adversaries exploit people, technology and systems. Emily is a proud Wurundjeri woman and a passionate advocate for neurodiversity in cyber.In this conversation, Emily unpacks the thinking behind

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27:26

The Sword Cuts Both Ways: Professor Toby Walsh on AI,...

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2026/06/24

On this episode of Cyber Voices, host David Savva-Willett is at Canberra CyberConnect 2026, AISA's inaugural event in the nation's capital, for a wide-ranging conversation with Professor Toby Walsh, one of the world's most influential voices in artificial intelligence.Toby is a Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney and Chief Scientist of UNSW AI. He has advised the United Nations and heads of state on the limits we need to place on AI, and his outspoken stance on the military uses of the technology

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30:24

When Everything Is On Fire: Shane Fitzsimmons on...

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2026/06/17

Recorded live at CyberConnect Canberra 2026, Cyber Voices host David Savva-Willett sits down with Shane Fitzsimmons AO AFSM, Managing Director of SAF Leading Advisory, former Commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service and inaugural Commissioner of Resilience New South Wales. David grabbed Shane straight off the main stage, minutes after his opening keynote on leadership in unprecedented times.Few people understand leadership under sustained pressure the way Shane does. He led New South

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30:16

Turning Off the Tap: Andrew Haschka on AI,...

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2026/06/10

In this episode of Cyber Voices, the official podcast of AISA, host David Savva-Willett is joined by Andrew Haschka, Field CTO for Asia Pacific and Japan at GitLab, for a candid look at the question almost every enterprise is wrestling with right now: how do we let developers move faster with AI without flooding production with vulnerabilities we cannot keep up with? With more than two decades across cyber security, cloud and digital transformation, and prior leadership roles at Google and VMware,

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29:24

The Chair's Check In: Michael Burchell on AISA at the...

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2026/06/08

In this episode of Cyber Voices, the official podcast of AISA, host David Savva-Willett sits down with Michael Burchell, Chair of the Australian Information Security Association, for a mid year check in on the state of Australia's peak body for cyber security. Recorded on the floor at the inaugural CyberConnect Canberra in the nation's capital, it is a candid look at where AISA sits at the halfway point of 2026, and, fittingly, it is Michael's very first podcast.The conversation opens with the

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29:21

Nicole Stephensen on Privacy Impact Assessments and...

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2026/06/03

In this episode of Cyber Voices, the official podcast of AISA, recorded live on the floor at BrisSEC in Brisbane, host David Savva-Willett sits down with Nicole Stephensen, a strategic risk and privacy professional recognised for her local and international expertise in privacy program management and her work as an expert witness on the reasonable steps needed to secure personal information across its lifecycle.Nicole is a Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association (FAISA) and a

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29:25

The 2026 Threat Landscape, Iran, and AI-Powered...

Cyber Voices ·

2026/05/27

Mike Kosak joins Cyber Voices to deliver a frank assessment of the 2026 cyber threat environment: it's not great, and it's getting worse. Mike is Director of Threat Intelligence at LastPass, with nearly 25 years of experience that began in the US Department of Defense as a counterterrorism intelligence officer. He served three deployments to Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, led the Pentagon office responsible for intelligence updates to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and acted as

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