Cyber Security Weekly Podcast

In this gripping essay, Australia’s leading strategic thinker, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt and oppose China. What led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? Is this a case of sleepwalking to war? What tests might a new government face? White assesses America’s credibility and commitment, by examining AUKUS, the Quad, Trump and Biden. He discusses what the Ukraine conflict tells us about the future. And he argues that the US can neither contain China, nor win a war over Taiwan. So where does this leave our future security and prosperity in Asia? Is there a better way to navigate the disruption caused by China’s rise?

“Canberra’s rhetoric helps raise the risk of the worst outcome for Australia: a war between China and America, in which we are likely to be involved. Over the past decade, and without any serious discussion, Australian governments have come to believe that America should go to war with China if necessary to preserve US primacy in Asia, and that Australia should, as a matter of course, go to war with it.” —Hugh White, Sleepwalk to War

Quarterly Essay 86, Sleepwalk to War: Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America was released 27 June 2022. To obtain a copy visit https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2022/06/sleepwalk-to-war

HUGH WHITE is the author of The China Choice and How To Defend Australia, and two acclaimed Quarterly Essays, Power Shift and Without America. He is emeritus professor of strategic studies at ANU, former Deputy Defence Secretary for Strategy, and was principal author of Australia’s Defence White Paper 2000.

Further Listening – Our previous interview with Hugh White - Episode 314 - Reality Check - Taiwan cannot be defended https://blubrry.com/mysecurity/84123792/episode-314-reality-check-taiwan-cannot-be-defended/

#hughwhite #sleepwalktowar #quarterlyessay #nationalsecurity #indopacific #uschinarelations #mysecuritytv

We speak with Daniel O’Toole, Senior Adviser for Space within the Sector Team for Defence, Space and Infrastructure at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade).

In addition to his role at Austrade, Daniel has also served as partial secondee at the Australian Space Agency since 2018. In this capacity he works on joint Austrade-Space Agency initiatives that help promote the growth of the Australian space industry through international market programs and opportunities.

Prior to joining Austrade in 2016, Daniel worked for two Japanese organisations that worked to build partnerships in Australia. He worked for the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals Organisation (JOGMEC), where he led research on issues impacting the local minerals market. He then worked for the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in Sydney, helping to connect Australian and Japanese businesses and increase two way trade and investment between Japan and Australia.

Daniel holds a Bachelor of International Studies from the University of New South Wales and a Masters of Strategic Affairs from the Australian National University.

Recorded for Australia in Space TV, Friday, 29 July 2022 (Due to a technical issue the video version is not available)

For more episodes visit www.australiainspace.com.au

#Austrade #space #asitii

Jane Lo, Singapore Correspondent speaks with David Pethes, Co-Founder, Qrucial, Head Ambassador for Eastern Europe of Polkadot.

David is a Web3 researcher and security expert that founded the largest crypto hacking competition in the world called CCTF (Crypto Capture the Flag). He is also the co-founder of QRUCIAL and has more than 10 years experience in IT penetration testing and got several global certifications. Since 2021 he is the Head Ambassador for Eastern Europe of Polkadot – a sharded protocol that enables blockchain networks to operate together seamlessly.

In this on-site interview at “Hack-in-the-Box” held at the Singapore Intercontinental Hotel, David shares some of the highlights of his presentation on “Breaking Web3: Exploitation Techniques for Cryptocurrency Hacking.”

Introducing his perspectives of what Web3 encompasses, and the history of smart contracts, David shares that Web3 world is more than just technological changes (and bitcoin). Enabled by smart contracts, he observes how Web3 presents opportunities for societal and monetary innovations.

David points to how the emerging Web3 architecture is built on both blockchain concepts as well as components from centralised computer infrastructure (such as SQL databases) in traditional architecture. Security vulnerabilities in Web3 therefore, he notes, comprise of new emerging threats, as well as the ones commonly observed in today.

David wraps up the interview with an introduction to his Crypto Capture the Flag (CCTF) contest, which provides a legitimate platform to challenge white-hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in the rapidly evolving Web3 infrastructure.

Recorded on-site at the Singapore Intercontinental Hotel in Bugis, 25^th August 2022, 7pm Singapore Time.

Cybersecurity has become too complex for most organisations. While every organisation wants the best cyber defences, few have the skilled resources to deliver them.

Almost every organisation has a strategic initiative driving their digital transformation journey. Customers need to be served digitally and remotely, rather than visiting physical locations. Employees need to remain productive despite needing to work from home. The nature of an organisations network changed fundamentally, and a much larger and more vulnerable attack surface was exposed to attackers using more sophisticated methods. The traditional response is to buy yet more cybersecurity technology further overwhelming security operations teams, which in many SME is a single person also responsible for many other IT tasks.

Despite organisations spending record budgets on cyber-defences, attackers are more successfully infiltrating networks and remaining undetected for longer. The current model isn’t working for most organisations.

That is why organisations are increasingly searching for an alternative path, that allows them to reduce risk, increase efficiency and reduce costs. Characteristics needed to achieve these 3 improvements are:

1. Security Operations Centre that includes proactive threat hunting and neutralization

2. Integrated cybersecurity defences allowing automated responses to security events, avoiding the need to involve a human thereby increasing time to response and increasing efficiency

3. Expert Cybersecurity Professionals available whenever required without the challenge and cost of hiring and retaining role such as incident responders, threat analysts and cyber threat hunters

4. Unified Management enabling the in-house team to work more efficiently at a single console

Sophos provide this Cybersecurity as a Service, built on 37 years expertise securing organisations of all sizes, geographies and industries.

We speak with Hywel Morgan, Manager, Systems Engineering for ASEAN and Korea, Sophos.

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We speak with Anthony Stevens, Founder & CEO of 6clicks.

6clicks is making a big announcement, backed by Microsoft, where the company is launching an IRAP PROTECTED assessed instance of their platform for defence and government market - 6clicks for Government.

Following their recent $5.5M capital raise, the company also announced this week that Matt Gyde, former CEO of billion-dollar global technology services company NTT Security has joined the team as Non-Executive Director.

Matt’s career in IT security spans more than 20 years, with a rich history including high-level roles with Dimension Data and Datacraft-Asia, providing him a deep understanding of how security platforms should be implemented and managed to ensure clients’ business outcomes are achieved while ensuring their risk is minimised.

This is our second interview with Anthony and looking forward to following the company's rise. Stay tuned! #6clicks #mysecuritytv

For the full video interview, recorded Friday 16 April, 2021  - available here https://youtu.be/1uOZnUB_-mk

Full media release - https://australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au/6clicks-and-microsoft-partner-to-meet-australian-government-and-defence-security-requirements/