Program

*BOOKED OUT* Practical Threat Hunting: From Intelligence to Action

*BOOKED OUT* How to Actually Change Security Behaviour (without the BS)

Day 2: The Fifth International Cybersecurity Challenge

*BOOKED OUT* Game Plan for AI Governance: ISO 42001 Integration for Security Leaders

*BOOKED OUT* Hands on Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop

High School Student CTF

*BOOKED OUT* Kickstart your CTI program with MISP

Practical Threat Hunting: From Intelligence to Action (Full-day – continued)

Channel Meets Gold Coast - Invite Only

Day 2: The Fifth International Cybersecurity Challenge

Understanding Emerging AI and Data Governance Best Practices

*BOOKED OUT* Hands on Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop (full day - continued)

High School Student CTF

Kickstart your CTI program with MISP (Full-day – continued)

Welcome to AUSCERT2026

Welcome from AUSCERT GM, Ivano Bongiovanni

Game On: The AUSCERT Challenge

How Attackers Play the Endpoint—and How to Break the Game

Flattening the SOC: Re-thinking Tiered Operations to Improve Outcomes

DDoS, Doxxing, and Digital Warfare: Cybersecurity Lessons from the Gaming Trenches

"GAME OVER! Start Again?" - Getting Security Right From The Start

When Attackers Use AI: How Defenders Can Respond

Incident Response: What Security Teams Need to Know (legal one)

Cognitive Warfare: When Defenders Stop Updating Their Mental Model

Levelling up your CTI program with the CTI-CMM

Make Your Business a Hard Target for Cybercriminals

How much tech should a CISO know before a CISO passes GO?

Critical Links: Strategic and Technical Risk Assessment of Pacific Submarine Cable Infrastructure

Threat Intelligence for Smarter Risk Reduction

The 16-Minute Breach: Why Human-Led Defense Fails Against Agentic AI

Skateboarding, Skydiving, Security – What can we learn from Extreme Sports?

Under the Hood: The Battle for Security, Safety & Privacy in a Connected Vehicle World

Hunting Nation-State APTs in Telecommunications Networks: Intelligence Lessons from the Front Lines

The New Face of the Email Attack: When Everything Looks Legitimate

From Zero to Global: A Founder's Journey in Building a Successful Cybersecurity SaaS Company

Ready Player Three: Trawling telegram for threat intelligence

The real state of North Korea's employment fraud operations in Australia.

The Ghost in the Machine: AI Automated Attacks From Inside & Out

Scaling Capability or Scaling Risk? A Look at AI at the Coalface

The Honest Debrief: What It Actually Takes to Evolve Security for the AI Era

Birds of a Feather sessions

Pre-dinner drinks - AUSCERT2026 Gala Dinner

Welcome to Day 2 of AUSCERT2026

iTnews State of Security Report 2026

Beyond the Perimeter: Navigating Identity Exploitation in the Age of AI

Beyond Bits: Defending Data in the Quantum Age

Offensive security: Walking the fine red (team) line

AUSCERT Cyber Leadership Network (CLN)

Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks

ProfileHound: BloodHound collector for user profiles stored on machines

Strength in Connections: The Anatomy of Managed Defence

The Referee’s Playbook: Avoiding the Red Card ($5.8M Fines) and the Sin Bin

Building Your First Operational Technology (OT) Incident Response Plan

Achievement Unlocked: Two Decades of Phishing Research

The AI Cyber Arms Race Has Begun

Co-op Mode: Levelling Up Supply Chain Resilience

Gaining a Cognitive Edge: Smart Esports (AI and Cyber) for High-Performance Team Training

AI In Bug Bounty @ GitLab: The Good, The Bad, and The Extreme

To be announced

The Accidental Security Architect (and why that needs to change)

How To Replace Your People With AI

Build your own Potato - An exploration of how Windows authentication abuse “actually works”

To be announced

Game On! Inside the Program Committee: What Makes a CFP a Winner

Project Kitsune: The Agentic AI SOC Analyst That Never Sleeps (and Rarely Complains)

Why I created OpenSourceMalware (right here on the Gold Coast!)

To be announced

the AUSCERT Speed Debate 👏

Closing Remarks