Industry briefing: What's ahead for NZFY2025

The New Zealand Public Sector's priorities & procurement processes for the 2025 financial year

New Zealand's Digital Transformation: Innovating for Efficiency, Security, and Sustainability

Discover how New Zealand’s government is leveraging digital innovation and cybersecurity to modernise public services, optimise resources, and address climate challenges.

Building Culture While WFH

Balancing remote work and office culture post-COVID, we've focused on five key areas to maintain team connection and belonging.

Future Strategic Planning & Critical Controls: An Exclusive Update from CERT NZ

Join Jordan Heersping, Manager, Threat & Incident Response, CERT NZ in this Keynote presentation as he discusses identifying priority risks in your organisation, reviewing our critical controls against the incidents we have seen over the last 12 months, data and insights we received from reports and international threat feeds, and how and why certain attacks could have been prevented. He concludes with CERT's current key focus and projected future priorities.

Solving Issues Related to Instrumentation and Monitoring of Critical Systems

In this panel session, our government leaders discuss how we can most effectively collaborate to close the cyber security skills gaps, what opportunities the latest iteration of Data Loss Prevention tools offer organisations, and how valuable as a proactive protection strategy against preventing leaks is the gathering of user data and filtering potentially offensive actions to unveil fraud or data exfiltration attempts. Hear insights from Jay Nowitz, Senior Information Security Advisor, Oranga Tamariki, Derek Robson, Chief Information Security Officer, New Zealand Parliament, Peter Booth, Group Manager - Security Services & Performance, Te Whatu Ora.

Designing a Roadmap for Achieving Agile & Resilient Network Security

In this Panel Discussion, our government leaders discuss how to identify your organisation's risk profile to determine the most critical data for your agency and its key client-users, how to ensure programs and investments in technologies reduce risks to acceptable levels. Our government executives go on to discuss the best means of embedding zero-trust framework in a network security strategy, and how we should design and implement cybersecurity awareness training programs to educate employees about their critical role in cyber defence as well as how to identify gaps and priorities to address these within budgetary and personnel constraints. Hear insights …

Building Capability to Manage Supply Chain Risk & Improve Organisational Cyber Resilience

In this Government Keynote session, we hear insights from Jonathan Wilkins, Chief Information Security Officer, Ministry for Primary Industries, on identifying supply chain entities and supplier management processes, assessing the cyber threat landscape and determining which suppliers are most critical, and establishing processes to effectively manage supply chain risk and improve cyber resilience.

How CX Innovation is Transforming the Department of Inland Revenue's Security Strategy

In this Government Keynote session, Jay Harris, Chief Information Security Officer, Inland Revenue Department, discusses the digitization process for the IRD and their future plans for transformation, key implications and most critical challenges for safely securing business operating in the new digital ecosystem, driving secure network capability to enable individuals and businesses to use a common digital identity across a range of services.