The highly popular Education Day hosted by the ISACA Wellington chapter is on again.

The format will be similar to previous years and will provide a number of thought provoking speakers on related topics to "Cloud, Cyber Security and Privacy."

ISACA Wellington thanks KPMG and Swimlane for supporting this event.

Topics include:

• The Journey to the Cloud: Bridging the Chasm
• Cyber Psychology and the Impact of Rapid Technological Change
• Designing for a Better World - at a Range of Scales
• Privacy Law Reform
• Automating Human Best Practices, the best of both worlds
• Piercing Digital Evidence Together, from JumpList to Jail
• Ghosts of incident past: Which security controls really matter

Our speakers include:

• Dr Chris Roberts, Head of Information Assurance and Cyber Security Research, NZ National Cyber Security Centre. Chris holds a PhD in information science from Otago University (specialising in cybercrime and its risk management), is a qualified Management Accountant, Chartered Secretary and Information Systems Auditor. He has over 47 years of IT, consulting, commercial and technology assurance experience, almost 35 years of which he has specialised in technical security, technology risk management, IT assurance and IT governance. He is currently the Head of Information Assurance and Cyber Security Research at New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre. In this role he provides information assurance and technology security advice and guidance to NZ Government Agencies, and is responsible for the ongoing development of New Zealand’s national technical security policy for NZ Government Agencies (the NZ Information Security Manual). Chris has researched, edited and written large portions of the NZISM since the first edition in 2010. He also lectures on external training programmes and is an occasional visiting lecturer to the Wellington Institute of Technology and to Otago and Victoria Universities.
  
• Jon Duffy, Assistant Commissioner, Privacy Commission;
• Jim Scully from Tumu Mamatua - Thinkplace; Jim is the co-founder of ThinkPlace in NZ, and is the global culture lead dedicated to releasing peoples’ collective innovation potential. During his career, he’s successfully pioneered design thinking in the New Zealand public sector, built a lasting innovation capability, started up a business and led transformation teams across multiple countries. Jim’s accomplishments also include assisting a major Australasian public transport provider pivot their organisation to be authentically customer-centred; helping policy leaders re-imagine their framework for a high performing, future-positioned policy system; and ensuring national planners considered human factors when designing a smarter suburb. Jim often helps out with innovation projects or panels; especially when it involves the UN’s Sustainable Development goals. Prior to ThinkPlace, Jim was a senior manager in Inland Revenue, EDS Asia Pacific and Telecom NZ.
• Greg Singh, Pre-Sales Engineer, Swimlane. Greg is a 23+ year Information Technology veteran with more than 18 of those dedicated to Information Security. Greg has held positions with Technology Vendors, Service-Providers, Systems Integrators and End-User Organisations in predominantly technical leadership and evangelism roles. Greg is a recognised Subject Matter Expert in Cyber Crime, Vulnerabilities, Malicious Code and Exploits that sees him speaking about both the tactics and techniques used by the perpetrators as well as mitigation strategies that can employed to defend such attacks. Today, Greg works for Swimlane as a Pre-Sales Engineer covering the APJ region team, a primarily outward facing role for the organisation that’s sees him helping organisations transform the efficiency of their Security Operations Centres through Automation. Previously Greg has held various roles with vendors Skybox-Security, Cylance, Splunk, QuintessenceLabs, Blue Coat & RSA and service providers Optus, Telecom New Zealand and British Telecom. Greg holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Wollongong.
  
• Peter Benson, founder of Cyber-Psych.org and Cyber4. Peter is one of the region's leading Cyber Security specialists. His expertise and experience in Information Security extends over 25 years across many sectors, in particular telecommunications. His strategic view of IT Security, ethics and privacy and ability to pre-empt directions the industry is taking, has made him an in-demand advisor assisting organizations of all sizes effectively manage their corporate risks. Peter is a pioneer in CISSP training and certification in the Asia-Pacific region and continues to be an in-demand speaker for training courses and conferences. Cyber4 is an AI platform for optimizing organisational health and productivity, across society and business. The solutions range from culture management, through to leadership and performance, to team behaviours and performance, through to people analytics and real world outcomes.
• Ian Donovan, Forensic & Incident Response Lead at InPhySec. Ian has over 12.5 years’ digital forensic experience and has certified with a; BSc in Forensic Computing, EnCE, CFCE, CMDE and CAWFE. He worked at New Zealand Police and extensively analysed digital devices. Prior to this, he worked at PwC and undertook eDiscovery cases for his clients.
• Erica Anderson, principal consultant and leads the Wellington office for SafeStack. She has worked in various roles in IT and infosec - she has been a consultant, engineer, tester, analyst, incident responder, and teacher. She has worked with a wide range or organisations, from small NZ businesses to global corporations. Being in Wellington, she has also done her share of public sector work. She knows what it feels like to try and move fast while staying secure. Aside from work and various speaking events, Erica loves spending her time causing general chaos in the New Zealand infosec community by running events like Kiwicon, Kawaiicon, BSides Wellington, and Code Club Aotearoa.
  

Full attendance will earn up to 7 hours CPE, subject to confirmation of the final programme.

All ISACA members are welcome to join the Board of ISACA Wellington at the conclusion of the Education Day for complimentary drinks and nibbles.

Please email any questions or dietary requirements to secretaryisacawellington@gmail.com

NB: Registrations through Eventbrite close at 2pm on 28 November. If you wish to register after then please contact the Secretary on the above email address. Payment can be made either online to our bank account, or by cash on the day.