Thu 06 Mar 2025
View event detailsRegistration and Networking
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 mins)
Opening from Public Sector Network
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM (15 mins)
Chair Opening
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM (10 mins)
Ministerial Address
9:10 AM - 9:20 AM (10 mins)
The 2025 Cyber Security Landscape in SA: Navigating the Year Ahead
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM (20 mins)
Industry Perspective
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM (20 mins)
Securing Government: Keeping Pace with the Increased Scale, Complexity, Impact and Disruption of Evolving Threats
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 mins)
- How the emerging global and national threat landscape is impacting Government, citizens, and businesses – and what measures we need to take to build resilience
- Improving the safe and reliable delivery of government services – unpacking the biggest threats and the next phase of priorities to enhance security
- Increasing the maturity of cyber threat intelligence capability to improve risk informed decision making
- Navigating the increasing pervasiveness and complexity of digital, data and platform enabled services – securing sensitive data collection and aggregation
- Data retention, data security and data breaches – improving identity resilience and security and response to data breaches
Morning Tea and Networking
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM (40 mins)
The Intersection of Next-Gen Technologies and Human Defenders: Shaping the Future of SA Government Cyber Security Resilience
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM (20 mins)
- Integrating human skills with AI and leveraging the strengths of both for enhanced and proactive threat response
- Developing and leveraging soft skills: navigating governance, risk, and policy
- AI’s role in early threat detection – unpacking latest methods to detect and mitigate cyber threats
- Securing data with technology and enhancing identity management and access control
- Security considerations in harnessing emerging technologies such as Cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), AI and Automation, and navigating the increased the use of shared responsibility service delivery models
Industry Perspective
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM (20 mins)
Activating Key Strategies to Bolster Cyber Awareness, Safety and Resilience
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM (40 mins)
- Creating a cyber safe place to work, live and learn
- Enhancing education for citizens: how can we empower South Australians to be safe online and improve the rate of reporting cybercrime?
- How can we best support SMEs to afford and build cyber security resilience and awareness?
- Utilising engagement channels to promote cyber risk management and prevention strategies
- Navigating the realm of social media: mitigating threats posed for youth
- Delivering programs which uplift the cyber resilience of vulnerable communities
Industry Perspective
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM (20 mins)
Cyber Security for IoT: Sense-Checking Emerging Requirements
12:50 PM - 1:10 PM (20 mins)
Lunch and Networking
1:10 PM - 2:20 PM (70 mins)
Interactive Roundtable Discussions:
2:20 PM - 3:20 PM (60 mins)
Making Cyber Security Everyone’s Business: Building Cyber Security Culture, Awareness and Training
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM (40 mins)
- Human centred cyber security – what are you doing to empower your people?
- What does it take to truly embed and maintain a robust cyber security culture?
- Ensuring agencies are equipped with the training and resources required to defend, detect and respond to security incidents
- Embedding best practice on the safe and ethical use of AI
- Upskilling key leaders in organisations through dedicated training to manage cyber risk in their organisation
- Growing our future cyber talent – building the technical and leadership skills to secure SA now and into the future
Powering the Growth, Maturity and Sustainability of South Australia’s Cyber Ecosystem: Supporting a Vibrant Cyber Economy
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM (20 mins)
- Cultivating SA’s cyber economy and strategic partnerships to grow dynamic and competitive cyber security businesses and talent
- Leveraging the ecosystem’s expertise and aligning strategies – taking the most effective approach to collaboration and partnerships between vendors, startups, academia and government
- Sense-checking best approaches to growing local capability, supporting industry maturity and fostering investment opportunities
- Supporting local cyber businesses and start-ups to develop and up-scale
Closing Remarks from the Chair
4:30 PM - 4:40 PM (10 mins)
Networking Drinks
4:40 PM - 4:40 PM (0 mins)
