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- Addressing challenges in ensuring data privacy and compliance

- Highlighting the complexities of the shared responsibility model

- Discussing the challenges of real-time threat detection

- Building an inclusive workforce

- Education and training programs to improve cyber skills

- Mentorships and support networks to upskill security professionals

Through this session you will understand that implementing zero trust is an opportunity to improve the way your users interact with the services you provide. The agenda will show how Zero Trust makes your services more accessible, fairer and better. It will cover how zero trust can:

• Enable a seamless experience for your users
• Decrease the cost of development
• Streamline your technology, processes and data footprint

• Understanding the impact of downtime when the unexpected happens.
• What Strategies should you implement
• What's the blueprint for success.

Knowing what you need to do to protect your Agency, and resourcing that protection, can seem a long way apart. This panel will examine three options to address this, based on the experience of the Department of Transport and Planning and its wider Portfolio.

Dr Greg Adamson

Portfolio Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria

Ramy Ibrahim

Cyber Security Advisor & Systems Support, Ports Victoria

Deepti Kasturi

Chief Information Officer and Acting Executive Director, Digital and Data, Victorian Building Authority, Victoria Building Authority

Vanessa Kyte

Cybesecurity Business Leader, OpenText

- How to best employ threat intel for an effective response

- Strategies for enhanced security within organisational systems

Dr Claire O'Neill

Detective Acting Superintendent, Australian Federal Police

Peter Williamson

Director Counter Cybercrime Mission, Australian Signals Directorate

Ash Smith

Principal Technology Strategist, CrowdStrike Australia and New Zealand

• Rising cyber threats – Victorian accounts for 30% of Australia’s reported cyber incidents, making proactive security essential for government agencies.
• Quantifying and managing cyber risk – Government audits show agencies with structured risk assessments and proactive security drills are far more resilient. Learn how to measure and mitigate cyber risk effectively.
• AI-driven security – The ACSC recommends shifting to proactive, AI-enhanced risk management. Explore how AI can help detect threats faster, automate responses, and strengthen security across public sector systems.

The three key focus areas for effective cyber security.

- Streamlining processes to enhance productivity

- Leveraging tools and platforms to improve collaboration

- Fostering a culture of continuous improvement

- Interactive training programs to help staff

- Establishing regular awareness initiatives

- Empowering reporting mechanisms

A trusted future relies on effectively managing third-party dependencies within critical infrastructure operations, many of which remain unseen and underestimated.

To ensure resilience, we must take a comprehensive approach to security, spanning physical, cyber, supply chain, and personnel risks. In this roundtable, we will explore:

1. The current state of Critical Infrastructure and its evolving security landscape.
2. The critical impact of third-party risks, highlighting sector-specific examples and the importance of a robust risk management framework.
3. Strategies to prioritise supplier diversification, including the role of sovereign suppliers in enhancing national security.

As nationally significant operators, Critical Infrastructure providers must cultivate strong local partnerships with vendors, service providers, and industry leaders to build a more secure and resilient future.

In this roundtable session we will discuss the primary hurdles for key stakeholders across government entities is securing buy-in and budget allocation for optimising workforce digital access through Identity Security. We will dive deeper into key insights gathered from previous roundtables across Australia and how an effective identity security program can:

- Navigate Machinery of Government (MoG) changes

- Empowering collaboration between agencies

- Manage and protect all enterprise identities (including 3rd parties)

- Secure and govern access to sensitive data

Despite its critical role in enhancing efficiency, compliance, and cybersecurity, investment in Identity Security often competes with other priorities.

• Deciding your organisation’s strategy for access, use, and data governance
• Strategies and tools government can adopt to safely embrace public and private AI
• How AI can help enhance data protection and proactively defend against advanced threats

• Explore opportunities to prepare for incidents before they happen. What does good incident response look like?
• Discuss key insights gleaned from more than 500 significant cyber compromise event responses across the nation in the past year
• The most dangerous threats are coordinated and synchronised. What should be on your Cyber checklist for 2025?

Why do we need to be thinking about this NOW…. Today, more than 90% of Australians have a smartphone. In 2024 people made over $126 billion in payments with their mobile wallets, overtaking cash withdrawals, with each state having either delivered or are delivering a Digital Driver Licence, and international standards continue to gain momentum….

Citizens, small business groups, industry, regulators, and government continue to show that there are additional opportunities to support the digitalisation of peoples’ lives and that there are benefits that can be realised.

• Engage with real-world challenges – Cyber attacks on VIC agencies are increasing. How prepared is your organisation?
• Vote and debate – Share your stance on key cybersecurity issues and discuss solutions with peers.
• Turn insights into action – Explore AI-driven security and best practices to strengthen cyber resilience in your agency.

Threat actors are beginning to leverage AI for crafting more sophisticated phishing, evasion, and attack techniques. How can government security teams assess readiness, and how should they adapt their playbooks, tooling, and defences in response?

As Government departments and agencies continue to digitise services and manage growing volumes of sensitive information, the threat of cyberattacks becomes more urgent. With highly integrated platforms, such as Salesforce, and access to personal and commercial data, public sector environments are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals.

The Public Sector is now the second most targeted industry for data breaches, with tactics such as ransomware and phishing frequently used to gain unauthorised access and disrupt services.

Join this roundtable to explore how government organisations can strengthen their cyber defences in Salesforce and ensure that staff and users interact only with safe, verified information—without compromising performance, usability, or service delivery.

• Gain insights into a unique approach to endpoint security
• Learn practical strategies to move from reactive to preventative security postures
• Engage with peers in an open, collaborative forum
• Ask your most pressing questions directly

• Explore how Victorian government departments are putting Zero Trust principles into real-world practice.
• Discuss challenges around identity, access management, network segmentation, and legacy systems.
• Share local success stories and pilot programs that are making an impact.
• Walk away with actionable insights and peer benchmarks to guide your agency’s next steps in Zero Trust adoption.

• Unpacking how your data is used and by who
• Mitigating financial, operational, and reputational risks associated with your data
• Driving successful AI initiatives with improved data quality

You’ll get exclusive insights into:

• Real-world state-sponsored and targeted eCrime intrusions across the government sector
• The adversary motives driving these attacks, and how those motives are shifting
• How CrowdStrike can help you to detect, investigate, and respond with speed and precision.

Expect candid stories, and lively conversation! We look forward to welcoming you to the conversation.

• Explore how a scalable, future-proof cyber resilience strategy can reduce operational disruptions and better protect critical services.
• Unpack different approaches to resilience based on sector-specific risk profiles, compliance obligations and whole-of-government cyber strategies.
• Gain insight into successful case studies where enhanced security, observability and recovery capabilities have delivered measurable outcomes