Cyber Security Sundowner

Join us for informal drinks, networking and the rare opportunity to hear from significant international experts in cybersecurity.

Ben Flatgard, founder and principal of Cycise, most recently posted as Director for Cybersecurity Policy on the National Security Council for THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, DC. Ben was responsible for leading policy development for the US government in areas related to cybersecurity in the financial services and healthcare sectors, consumer security, and emerging technology.

David Irvine AO is an Australian diplomat, who was Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) from 2003 to 2009 and then from 2009 to 2014 was the Director-General of Security (head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation). The only person to have served as the head of both. Cyber security is one of Australia's national security priorities — Australia's national security, economic prosperity and social wellbeing rely on the availability, integrity and confidentiality of a range of information and communications technology. However, the risk to the Australian economy from computer intrusion and the spread of malicious code by organised crime has been assessed as high and an increase in the scale, sophistication and perpetration of cybercrime has made it increasingly difficult to identify and defeat.

Arguably the fastest growing tech sector in the world, cybersecurity is being fuelled by an unprecedented rise of cybercrime. Enabled by the limitless convenience and instantaneous nature of the internet, cyber-attacks now present fierce threats for businesses, governments and consumers worldwide, with cybercrime damages estimated to cost the world US$6 trillion annually by 2021.

While connectivity to the internet is now critical to doing business, no organisation is immune from cybercrime. From the smallest business to the biggest enterprises, all are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Whilst many go to great lengths to protect their physical assets many do not take similar precautions with their digital information.

This is an opportunity for businesses to hear from international industry leaders that will discuss the significance of the cybersecurity sector, latest threats, mitigations and advances in cybersecurity and what it means for WA businesses.

About the speakers:

Ben Flatgard is the founder and principal of Cycise, a security technology company. Cycise is developing an innovative, software based approach to cyber risk management and incident response planning. Ben served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2017. In his most recent post, as Director for Cybersecurity Policy on the National Security Council, Ben was responsible for leading policy development for the US government in areas related to cybersecurity in the financial services and healthcare sectors, consumer security, and emerging technology. He received his Masters in Politics from the University of Edinburgh.

David Irvine AO was a long-serving diplomat who was Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea from 1996-1999 and Australian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China between 2000-2003, also concurrently Australian Ambassador to Mongolia and to the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. He subsequently became the only person to have served as the head both of Australia’s foreign intelligence collection agency and its domestic security agency – positions he held for almost twelve years.
He is currently the Chairman of the Foreign Investment Review Board and a member of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia. He is an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University and also lectures at the National Security College within the Australian National University. He chairs the Australian Cyber Security Research Centre, promoting industry investment into Australia’s cyber research capabilities.
Irvine has published two books on Indonesian culture. He has honorary doctorates from the University of Western Australia (Letters) and Edith Cowan University (Science)
Irvine was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2005 for services to the promotion of Australia’s international relations.

L. Gordon Flake is the founding CEO of the Perth USAsia Centre, a position he assumed in January of 2014. He was previously Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution at The Atlantic Council of the United States and prior to that Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America. He received his BA degree in Korean with a minor in international relations from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He completed his MA at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies, also at B.Y.U. He speaks both fluent Korean and Laotian.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday, 12th October 2017

Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm (registration from 5.15pm)

Venue: CCI Function Centre, 180 Hay Street East Perth WA 6004

*cancellations received after 5 October will not be entitled to a refund

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