Richard Magalad is a 30 year veteran of the ICT industry starting his career at the the Commonwealth bank where he received world-class training on Oracle, COBOL, IBM, Unisys and many other enterprise technlogies.

He was a 10-year IT director from 2010 working at a mining company with uranium, gold and diamond projects in Australia, Laos and Canada.

Current projects are systems integration for two of the large Telcos, several agencies in Federal Government and he is also active in providing infosec and IT advice for the SMB market.  He is an Essential 8 educator trained by ASD and recently completed his IRAP course and exam.

He was an executive committee and secretary at the Australia Computer Society until 2020.

Richard is the current chairperson of Cloud branch for Australian Information Security Association.