Welcome

from Jason Murrell, Group Executive AustCyber

Welcome to Cyber Week 2022 - AustCyber's flagship annual event.

As the new Group Executive for AustCyber, I am thrilled to announce that for the first time since its inception 5 years ago, Cyber Week 2022 will be traveling around the country to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and Canberra, to deliver world-class cyber security events in person and online.

Cyber Week explores the full breadth of the cyber security sector, providing an opportunity to learn and celebrate one of Australia's most critical industries.

The week will be packed with the best cyber experts across the country, sharing their knowledge, experience, and insights through innovative discussions and debates. We will welcome a diverse domestic and international audience of government, industry leaders, corporates, small businesses, founders, and anyone interested in cyber security.

Cyber Week 2022 has been built around the release of AustCyber's flagship publication - The Sector Competitiveness Plan (SCP), which has been developed with over 60 Australian Cyber Security companies and experts. Our fourth SCP will be launched on day one of Cyber Week, and represent a critical piece of research that will help shape and inform the cyber security sector in Australia for years to come.

As part of the Stone & Chalk Group, AustCyber will be hosting Cyber Week 2022 in Stone & Chalk's state-of-the-art startup hubs across Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. The Perth event will be held at the Joondalup Business Forum and our Canberra event will be hosted at Hotel Rydges Canberra.

Cyber Week 2022 is back in person (as well as online streaming), giving you the opportunity to connect and network again face to face with experts and peers in the industry.

It's time to connect, participate, and be inspired at Cyber Week 2022 as we showcase and celebrate Australian Cyber Security capability.

Events

All 2022 Cyber Week events are FREE, however registration is essential

Monday 14 November 2022

Australian Cyber Week 2022 Launch

11:00am - 1:15pm AEDT

Stone & Chalk Melbourne Startup Hub (& online)

Launching Australian Cyber Week 2022, we'll dive into the story of Australia's cyber security journey in terms of market growth, education and skills, as well as where we sit today in the global export market.
These are all new data and insights from our 2022 Sector Competitiveness Plan that we are releasing. As the first of many events held from the 14th of November, the launch event will enable participants to learn from industry leaders, technology-minded professionals and government executives via our virtual platform.

We have seen massive economic upheaval in the last 12 months in line with a continued increase in digitalisation across the globe, as well as a changing geopolitical environment and threat landscape.

What does that mean for Australia?

What opportunities does this present for Australian cyber security businesses?

What risks are just over the horizon?
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Hypothetical: Australia Under Attack 2022

12:30pm - 3:00pm AEDT

Melbourne Startup hub (& online)

Join us for a signature AustCyber event - our Cyber Hypothetical - where we'll step through all the facets of three likely cyber attacks modeled in the 2022 Sector Competitiveness Plan and explore the impacts.
The hypothetical:

In the closing days of 2022, we have been living through a sustained phishing attack that has successfully infected our cloud systems, slowing everyone's digital connectivity down. Then a Log4j exploit lands in the digital realm, disrupting and shutting down the operations of many organisations due to vulnerable legacy systems. Finally, seeing an opportunity, a Foreign State with substantial offensive cyber capabilities has targeted our electricity grid, leading to intermittent power supply and getting worse.

What would it be like to live through a worst-case scenario cyber attack in our hyper-connected digital world?

Do we have enough strength and resilience in our cyber capabilities to help businesses?

Is our Government ready to combat a crippling national cyber attack?

Join us as we dive into our hypothetical story and our lineup of industry-leading guests tackling the twists and turns. This session will also be recorded live and released as an episode of AustCyber's popular podcast, 'OzCyber Unlocked'.
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Diversity in Cybersecurity. Are we the best we can be?

3:30pm - 5:00pm AEDT

Stone & Chalk Melbourne Startup Hub (& online)

It is widely observed that the Australian security industry is experiencing skill pressures, with diversity being a key area of disparity. These challenges suggest that the sector is not operating as optimally as it could, given the growing evidence that a more diverse workforce brings greater innovative potential, strategic intellect, and problem-solving capacity.
In 2022, RMIT University's Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSRI), Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) and Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) have invested in a study to identify practical ways to expand and diversify the industry's talent pool.

Dr Leonora Risse was part of the opening panel at the jobs and skills summit a couple of months ago. She was also part of the team leading the research on The Security Industry Workforce - Understanding gender dimensions Project Study. During this session, Dr Risse will present some of the key findings from this study, followed by a short panel to discuss what we as individuals, organisations and as an industry can do better to be the best we can be.

The panel:

Amy Roberts, Director, Strategic Partnerships and Industry Engagement at Australian Signals Directorate

Dr Leonora Risse, Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University

Dr Lena Wang, Senior Lecturer in Management, RMIT University

Moderated by Jacqui Loustau, Executive Director at AWSN
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AWSN and AISA SA - Economic Impacts of the Cyber Sector

4:30pm - 7:00pm (ACDT)

Stone & Chalk Adelaide Startup Hub (in-person only)

Join us for a networking event and discussion on the current economic impacts to the cyber security sector.

Jointly hosted by the AISA and AWSN South Australia branches, please join us for a face-to-face meeting and networking opportunity with a live and interactive discussion on the economic impacts to the cyber security sector. We invite all members of AISA and AWSN to attend this great networking opportunity!

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the speaker and networking drinks and finger food will be served after the presentations.

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Tuesday 15 November 2022

Protect your startup from being hacked

8:30am - 10:00am AEDT

Stone & Chalk Sydney Startup Hub (& online)

This free workshop is designed to help founders understand how cyber attacks could impact them and what they need to do to ensure they are cyber secure.
Data breaches make headlines when they occur at big companies. Attacks on small to medium sized businesses, including startups, get less media attention, even though they have just as much to lose.

Risk mitigation is a tough sell. Almost all technology companies are trying to accelerate their growth constantly. An early-stage startup will spend time building new features in its search for product/market fit, however the businesses are so focused on earnings and market success, it can be tough for them to understand the criticality of investing in important areas that don't directly contribute to increased revenue, such as preventative security.

To ensure their long term success, startups and scaleups need to prioritise analysing their risk around the economics of potential security breaches, and very importantly plan accordingly.

This workshop is designed with founders in mind, with the clear objective of teaching them how to make and keep their business cyber secure.

Who will present?

Martin Boyd, former Executive Manager of Cyber Security for CBA and founder of Vertex Cyber Security will be hosting a one-hour free workshop with an additional 30mins for Q&A at the end, to answer all your cyber security questions and share with you all the inside secrets.

What will you learn?

How a cyber attacker impacts a startup.

What is the Cyber Security secret sauce?

What do cyber attackers do and how successful are they?

What steps you as a founder should take immediately.
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Un-conference: Education and Workforce Skills

10:00am - 2:00pm ACDT

Stone & Chalk Adelaide Startup Hub (in-person only)

The booming technology industry in Australia is facing a severe shortage of job-ready tech and cyber security workers. The Tech Council of Australia forecasts that Australia will need 1 million people in tech jobs by 2025, but how are we going to meet these needs?

AustCyber (part of the Stone & Chalk group) is are hosting an 'Un-conference' a workshop designed to bring a diverse group of people together to deal with complexities facing the education and workforce skills gap in an innovative and productive way.

Through this engaging format, expand your knowledge of the significant changes ahead for employment, education pathways, and the policies and regulations which will shape the workforce and consumer demands.

Expect to meet passionate people from the Education sector, TAFE SA, Universities, Training organisations, Teachers and educators, Employers, Professional Associations, Cyber Industry, Startups, Government and Future Employers all of who are passionate about the issue and tackling the complexities facing the education and workforce skills gap.

Join us in person at our Adelaide hub to participate in this interactive event and enjoy a networking session with like-minded members of the community.

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Cyber Skills & Education

11:00am - 1:30pm AEDT

Stone & Chalk Sydney Startup Hub (& online)

The theme for the day will be focused on skills and education.
Both our 2022 Sector Competitiveness Plan and AUCyberExplorer platform provide information about the maturity and requirements for cyber security skills in the cyber security sector, as well as a growing demand across a range of other sectors.

We will need a sustainable pipeline of talent and skills to meet the growing demands of a growing cyber sector and other sectors. How will we get there?

Can we provide a sustainable pipeline for developing talent and skills?

How do we compete for talent and skills against other sectors and around the world?

Is our education and training up to a professional standard?
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Wednesday 16 November 2022

Joondalup Business Forum - Growing the cyber security sector through a stronger export market

7:30am - 10:00am AWST

Joondalup Resort, Perth (& online)

For Cyber Week 2022, AustCyber is releasing its fourth Sector Competitiveness Plan (SCP). The SCP has provided Industry and government with insights that capture the opportunity to improve Australia's performance by informing policy decisions from government and industry and academia.

The Joondalup Business Forum will focus on building a sustainable cyber security sector through a stronger export market, built on international partnerships and alliances.

Our sovereign cyber capability is reliant on not only access to our domestic market, but also increased access to a global export market. How can we leverage our international partnerships and alliances to enable this?

Ongoing support for the sector is critical, as Australia's cyber sector acts as the frontline against increasingly frequent and severe cyber attacks.

At this Forum Jason Murrell, Group Executive, AustCyber, will share key findings from the 2022 Sector Competitiveness Plan. With cyber security front of mind for individuals and organisations alike, our panel of experts from government, education and industry will provide insight into how Australia can cement its place in the globally competitive cyber security sector.

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Cyber Security for Founders

12:00pm - 1:30pm AEDT

Stone & Chalk Melbourne Startup Hub (& online)

This workshop is suited to anyone working in startups vying for government or corporate customers who find themselves being asked cyber-related procurement/RFP questions from prospects.
The workshop has been designed with founders in mind and doesn't require you to have any background knowledge in cybersecurity or even technology.

Businesses of any size and operating in any industry sector will gain value, particularly those in the early growth stage.

Cyber security is fast becoming a valuable tool for small businesses to win big opportunities, but only for those who know how to demonstrate their security maturity to outsiders. These workshops will teach founders how typical cyber security procurement processes progress, what they need to have in place to pass, and how they can use security to improve their bottom line.

You will also have access to the Cynch Cyber Fitness platform for a further week for FREE following the workshop to give you time to plan your next steps.

The workshop will cover the following topics.

The cyber security procurement process.

The value and cost of industry accreditation.

A mental model for managing cyber risk.

How to respond to cyber security questionnaires and demonstrate security.

Tools and service to help.
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Thursday 17 November 2022

Growth of the Australian Cyber Industry

8:00am - 10:30am ACDT

Stone & Chalk Adelaide Startup Hub (& online)

Cyber security sector revenue has continued to grow in Australia, reaching A$3.7 billion in 2022. Since 2017, sector revenue has grown 52 per cent.

In 2020 the gross value added to Australia's cyber security sector was approximately A$2.3 billion. AustCyber's Sector Competitiveness Plan (SCP) 2022 tracks the growth and shows a surprising trend in what might be the wrong direction.

This event will focus on the data story showing the growth of Australia's cyber security ecosystem and celebrating South Australia's success in growing the industry over the last 12 months. We will also look forward and highlight what we want to achieve and improve on over the coming year to further build and strengthen a vibrant and globally competitive cyber security industry.

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Friday 18 November 2022

The search for missing persons - how digital footprints can assist

11:30am - 2:00pm AEDT

Rydges Canberra (& online)

As part of Australian Cyber Week and Community Day, Linda Cavanagh, Founder of National Missing Persons Hackathon, will facilitate a panel discussion with leading OSINT experts, law enforcement, and an investigative journalist about the search for missing persons and how digital footprints can assist or disadvantage an investigation.

This Canberra-based event will be followed by a catered networking and an OSINT training session with OSINT Combine. Linda will also provide an exciting update on the Hackathon 2023 event.

The inaugural National Missing Persons Hackathon occurred in 2019, delivering the first large-scale, crowdsourced open-source intelligence gathering of its kind in Australia for missing persons, and a first for a country to participate simultaneously in this manner. The event was successfully run in 2020, tripling the participation and the volume of submissions to police.

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OSINT Training at Cyber Week 2022

1:00pm - 3:00pm (AEDT)

Online only

Follow the footprints and become a dynamic digital detective!

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