Program

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

*BOOKED OUT* Hands on Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop

Day 2: The Fifth International Cybersecurity Challenge

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

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

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*BOOKED OUT* Kickstart your CTI program with MISP

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

Hands on Enterprise Security Architecture Workshop (Full-day – continued)

Day 2: The Fifth International Cybersecurity Challenge

Understanding Emerging AI and Data Governance Best Practices

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

Opening Remarks

To be announced

To be announced

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

SentinelOne

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

Cognitive Warfare: When Defenders Stop Updating Their Mental Model

OSINT Vulnerability Management

ThreatLocker

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

Zscaler

Skateboarding, Skydiving, Security – What can we can 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

Abnormal AI

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

To be announced

To be announced

Birds of a Feather sessions

Pre-dinner drinks - AUSCERT2026 Gala Dinner

Opening Remarks

To be announced

Friday Morning Keynote

To be announced

Is Australia Ready for a Cyber Crisis? Strengthening our National Preparedness

Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks

ProfileHound: BloodHound collector for user profiles stored on machines

To be announced

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

To be announced

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

Speed Debate

Closing Remarks