CSides Ballarat meetups
Join the cybersecurity community in Ballarat, with beginner-friendly talks every two months featuring industry experts.
Explore information operations at our May talk
CSides Ballarat is a regular event held every two months. Our talks are beginner-friendly and open to anyone interested in cybersecurity, whether you’re just starting out or already working in the field. You’ll hear from industry professionals and learn how cybersecurity works in practice. Come along and discover how interesting and engaging cybersecurity can be. And as a bonus – dinner is provided.
Past speakers
Speakers
- Erica Muir (IBM), Cybersecurity for small business
- Ryan Etridge (Cybercert sponsored by eManaged), Tangible benefits of certification for SMEs
- Anya Avanish, Cybersecurity compliance for small business
- Kenneth Yu, Beneath the surface: Exploring the dark web and it's cybersecurity implications
- Paul Bongiorno, Gold is where you find it (running an autistic GRC team)
- Simon McAloon, The quantum time bomb in cybersecurity
Speakers
- Slavo Greminger, How to dissect an octopus
- Gagan Singh (MONSEC), Federation cybersecurity club
- Paul Black (Internet Commerce Security Laboratory), How To unpack malware
- Paul Black (Internet Commerce Security Laboratory), The world's worst software accident
- Martijn van Praag, Exploring Ghidra: First steps in reverse engineering
- Anya Avinash, Security risk and asset management
Speakers
- Daniel Plohmann, An introduction to malpedia
- Pooja Mishra, My Masters by Research experience
- Craig Wilson, An introduction to theat modelling
- Merill Fernando (Microsoft), Using policy as code to secure your Microsoft tenant with maester
- Sean Park (Trend Micro), Heading towards pure AI reverse engineer
- Tarek Chaalan (Security Centric), Adversarial attacks in modern machine learning
- Frank Schiliro, Cybercrime: Taxonomy and behaviors
- Sabih Saeed, Autonomous cyber operations
- Matt Murrell, Personal and professional development in cybersecurity
- Jonathon Oliver, Pragmatic approaches to clustering malware
- Paul Black, An introduction to software exploitation
Speakers
- Nang Tip and Ryan Jukes, An introduction to AISA
- Simon McAloon (Vitrafy), cybersecurity at a biotech startup
- Tim Haintz, Prompt engineering Open AI/Chat GPT and semantic kernel for cybersecurity
- Erica Muir, IBM fraud prevention for small business
- James Anderson (Google), An introduction to red teaming
- Matt Tett (Enex Testlab), Global cybersecurity lessons learned from OT/IoT risks
- Ian Firns (Eurekative), Ancedotes of an eclectic cybersecurity Career: From ADF to the private sector.
- Kumar Soorya (Fortian), An introduction to cybersecurity
- Paul Black (Internet Commerce Security Laboratory), Getting started in reverse engineering
- Tim Haintz (Microsoft), From helpdesk to cybersecurity
Organising committee
Our organising committee brings together security researchers and engineers from both academia and industry.
- Associate Professor Paul Pang, Federation University
- Paul Black, Federation University
- Professor Joarder Kamruzzaman, Federation University
- Professor Iven Mareels, Federation University
- Emeritus Professor Syed Islam, Federation University
- Dr. Suryani Lim, Federation University
- Pooja Mishra, Federation University
- Dr Robert Layton, Eurekative
- Scott Mellis, Mastercard
- David Mulraney, The Repair Group
Our sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors without which CSides Ballarat would not be possible.
- Australian Information Security Association (AISA)
- Eurekative
- Internet Commerce Security Laboratory, Federation University
Interested in sponsoring a CSides Ballarat meetup? Email p.black@federation.edu.au.