Ivano Bongiovanni is the General Manager at AUSCERT and is also a lecturer in Information Security at the University of Queensland. A former Police Officer and Deputy Venue Security Manager, he complemented a professional background in security and risk management with recent appointments as a cybersecurity scientist. His current work mainly revolves around Cyber Security GRC and focuses on improving organisational cyber security practices, promoting user-centric cyber security systems to balance growth/innovation and security, supporting board members and organisational leaders in making sound cyber security decisions, and designing safe and secure management systems. An experienced design facilitator, he keenly adopts design-led methods (e.g., Design Thinking) in cyber security projects to maximise user awareness and engagement. He is a hard-working individual and mostly runs on caffeine, even more so since recently becoming a first-time father…
Ivano Bongiovanni

Ivano Bongiovanni at AUSCERT2025
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