Join us at CISO Melbourne 2023 to share insights on transformative leadership, increasing awareness, taking a holistic approach to cybersecurity, and embracing technology innovation with confidence.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Deanne Sowers
First Assistant Director-General Cyber Threat Intelligence
Australian Signals Directorate
David Cullen
CISO
Digital Victoria

Andrew Pade
GM of Cyber Defence Operations and Security Integration
CBA
Allen Ohanian
CISO
Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (USA)
Jo Shoppee
Director of APAC Technology Risk, Governance and Performance, Technology
BUPA Asia Pacific
Vijay Narayan
CISO
EPA Victoria
FOCUS DAY EXCLUSIVE
Critical Infrastructure
Monday, 17 July 2023
Join your peers for an in-depth understanding of your company’s obligations and exemptions, clarification on contingency act and stepping power, and how to effectively tackle compliance burden.

BIGGER AND BETTER IN 2023
- 65+ leading infosec experts from Australia and the region
- International keynotes from prominent global infosec leaders
- Two full-days of jam-packed content to provide clarity and best-practice
- Roundtables designed to help you engage the teams and mature your systems
- Even more interaction with lots of VIP functions, group discussions, fireside chats, panels & many more…
KEY THEMES & TAKEAWAYS
GOVERNMENT & INDUSTRIES PARTNERING UP FOR SUCCESS: Discover the Australian Government plans to support your organisational security and resilience strategies
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Addressing your key challenges and staying compliant to standards and regulations
LESSONS LEARNED: How to implement successful ransomware protection strategies
CEOs vs. CISOs: Find out how your peers are reporting cybersecurity risks to the board and getting senior buy-in
CYBER STRATEGY: learning from others and overcoming common challenges when strengthening your programs
ENABLING GROWTH: Explore stronger practices to support business progress through secure innovation
BECOMING FUTURE READY: Learn from real-life lessons and create an enhanced security program in 2023 and beyond
CO-LOCATED EVENT
About this event
As organisations face an incredibly accelerated shift to digital, they’re struggling to keep up with the fast-paced IT Delivery evolution. DevSecOps has changed dramatically over the past few years. Now, enabling speed, quality, and security from the get-go is the new rule.
How is the rise of DevSecOps impacting your business, and what does that mean for your teams and organization from a practical perspective?
As part of CISO Melbourne 2023, we are bringing you the co-located DevSecOps Melbourne event, taking place on 19 July 2023 at Crown Promenade to help you answer those – and many others – questions.
LEAD PARTNER
Snyk
Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by more than 1,200 customers worldwide today.
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WIZ
Wiz secures everything organizations build and run in the cloud. Founded in 2020, Wiz is the fastest-growing software company in the world, scaling from $1M to $100M ARR in 18 months. Wiz enables hundreds of organizations worldwide, including 30 percent of the Fortune 100, to rapidly identify and remove critical risks in cloud environments. Its customers include Salesforce, Slack, Mars, BMW, Avery Dennison, Priceline, Cushman & Wakefield, DocuSign, Plaid, and Agoda, among others. Wiz is backed by Sequoia, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce, Blackstone, Advent, Greenoaks and Aglaé. Visit https://www.wiz.io/ for more information.
Visit websiteAbnormal Security
Abnormal Security provides a leading cloud-native email security platform that leverages AI-based behavioral data science to stop business email compromise (BEC) and never-seen-before attacks that evade traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs). Abnormal delivers a fundamentally different approach that precisely detects and protects against the widest range of attacks including phishing, malware, social engineering, spam and graymail, supply chain compromise, and internal account compromise. The Abnormal platform delivers inbound email security, internal and external account takeover protection, and full SOC automation. Abnormal’s API-based approach enables customers to get up and running in 15 minutes and can augment a SEG or be used standalone to enhance native Microsoft security protection. Abnormal Security is based in San Francisco, CA. More information is available at abnormalsecurity.com
Visit websiteAxonius
Axonius correlates asset data from existing solutions and provides an always up-to-date inventory, uncovers gaps, and automates response actions.
We give IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks.
With Axonius, IT and security teams can move away from reactive, disruptive day-to-day firefighting to focus on the bigger picture.
Visit websiteElasticsearch
We’re the leading platform for search-powered solutions, and we help everyone — organizations, their employees, and their customers — find what they need faster, while keeping applications running smoothly, and protecting against cyber threats.
When you tap into the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, you’re in good company with brands like Uber, Slack, Microsoft, and thousands of others who rely on us to accelerate results that matter.
Visit websiteExabeam
Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that created New-Scale SIEM™ for advancing security operations. Built for security people by security people, we reduce business risk and elevate human performance. The powerful combination of our cloud-scale security log management, behavioral analytics, and automated investigation experience gives security operations an unprecedented advantage over adversaries, including insider threats, nation-states, and other cyber criminals. We Detect the Undetectable™ by understanding normal behavior, even as normal keeps changing – giving security operations teams a holistic view of incidents for a faster, more complete response
Visit websiteOkta
The best security has Identity at the heart. Okta can help you protect against identity-based threats, accelerate adoption of any technology, deploy phishing-resistant passwordless authentication, build your foundation for Zero Trust and benefit from simplified, integrated Identity Governance.
Visit websiteCrowdstrike
CrowdStrike is a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform offers instant visibility and protection across the enterprise and prevents attacks on endpoints on or off the network. CrowdStrike Falcon deploys in minutes to deliver real-time protection and actionable intelligence from day one. It seamlessly unifies next-generation AV with best-in-class endpoint detection and response, backed by 24/7 managed hunting. Its cloud infrastructure and single-agent architecture take away complexity and add scalability, manageability, and speed.
CrowdStrike Falcon protects customers against cyberattacks, using sophisticated signatureless AI and Indicator-of-Attack (IoA) based threat prevention to stop known and unknown threats in real time. Powered by the CrowdStrike Threat Graph™, Falcon correlates over one trillion endpoint-related events a week in real time from across the globe to prevent and detect threats.
There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
GOLD PARTNERS
Illumio
Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation company, stops breaches and ransomware from spreading across the hybrid attack surface. The Illumio ZTS Platform visualizes all communication and traffic between workflows, devices, and the internet in one console, automatically sets granular segmentation policies to control unnecessary and unwanted communications, and isolates high-value assets and compromised systems to proactively or reactively stop the spread of a breach.
ZTS is proven to help organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 100 to small business, stop breaches and ransomware in minutes, save millions in application downtime, and accelerate digital transformation projects.
Assume breach. Minimize impact. Increase resilience.
Silverfort
Silverfort pioneers the first Unified Identity Protection platform that enables enterprises to implement Zero Trust security in the identity control plane for proactive detection and prevention of attacks that employ compromised credentials to access targeted resources. Utilizing agentless and proxyless technology.
Silverfort extends MFA protection to all users, systems and environments, including legacy applications, command line access tools, OT environments, as well as automates the discovery, monitoring and protection of service accounts
MyCiso
MyCISO is the World’s first SaaS application that will vastly simplify security management for all.
The MyCISO platform makes cyber security more accessible to businesses worldwide. Assess your current security posture. Improve it. Manage it. Comply to your chosen framework. This is what MyCISO can do for your business.
The platform then delivers powerful metrics to measure your maturity over time. You’ll find automation wherever possible, simplifying a once arduous but high necessary task.
AppOmni
AppOmni is the leading provider of enterprise level SaaS security. The company was founded by a team of security veterans from top SaaS providers and cybersecurity vendors, and its customer base includes global leaders across technology, healthcare, banking, and finance as well as many well-known cybersecurity providers.
AppOmni’s patented technology scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to compare the current state of enterprise SaaS deployments against best practices and business intent. The solution offers fast deployment, instant visibility, and makes it easy for security and IT teams to protect and monitor their entire SaaS environment, from each vendor to every end user. As SaaS applications evolve, AppOmni stays current with all updates and releases to keep customer environments secure over time.
DigiCert
DigiCert ONE is a modern, holistic approach to PKI management. Based on an advanced, container-based design, DigiCert ONE allows you to rapidly deploy in any environment, roll out new services in a fraction of the time, and manage users and devices across your organization at any scale.
Built by experts, designed for users. Because it’s not just what PKI can do. It’s what you do with it.
Visit websiteHPE Aruba Networking
At Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, we believe the most dynamic customer experiences happen at the Edge—an office, a hospital, a school, or at home. It’s anyplace work gets done and data is generated by users, devices, and things across your network.
Visit websiteSentinelOne
At SentinelOne, we are redefining cybersecurity by pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology. Our Singularity™️ XDR Platform encompasses AI-powered prevention, detection, response, and threat hunting across user endpoints, containers, cloud workloads, and IoT devices. Empowering modern enterprises to defend faster, at greater scale, and with higher accuracy across their entire attack surface.
Visit websiteGitLab
Visit websiteRapid7
Organizations around the globe rely on Rapid7 technology, services, and research to securely advance. The visibility, analytics, and automation delivered through our Insight cloud simplifies the complex and helps security teams reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks. Visit websiteProofpoint
Proofpoint, Inc. is a leading cybersecurity company that protects organisations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organisations globally rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security solutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. More information is available at www.proofpoint.com/au
Visit websiteClaroty
Claroty empowers industrial, healthcare, and commercial organizations to secure all cyber-physical systems in their environments: the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT). The company’s unified platform integrates with customers’ existing infrastructure to provide a full range of controls for visibility, risk and vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure remote access. Backed by the world’s largest investment firms and industrial automation vendors, Claroty is deployed by hundreds of organizations at thousands of sites globally. The company is headquartered in New York City and has a presence in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.
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Orca Security
Orca Security provides instant-on security and compliance for AWS, Azure, and GCP - without the gaps in coverage, alert fatigue, and operational costs of agents or sidecars. Simplify cloud security operations with a single CNAPP platform for workload and data protection, cloud security posture management (CSPM), vulnerability management, and compliance.
Orca Security prioritizes risk based on the severity of the security issue, its accessibility, and business impact. This helps you focus on the critical alerts that matter most. Orca Security is trusted by global innovators, including Databricks, Autodesk, NCR, Gannett, and Robinhood. Connect your first account in minutes: https://orca.security or take the free cloud risk assessment.
Visit websiteVIP LUNCHEON SPONSOR
Checkmarx
Checkmarx is constantly pushing the boundaries of Application Security Testing to make security seamless and simple for the world’s developers while giving CISOs the confidence and control they need. As the AppSec testing leader, we provide the industry’s most comprehensive solutions, giving development and security teams unparalleled accuracy, coverage, visibility, and guidance to reduce risk across all components of modern software – including proprietary code, open source, APIs, and infrastructure as code. Over 1,600 customers, including half of the Fortune 50, trust our security technology, expert research, and global services to securely optimize development at speed and scale. For more information, visit our website, check out our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn.
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Tanium
Tanium is the world’s first converged endpoint management solution: a single platform that can identify where all your data is, patch every device you own in seconds, implement critical security control tools and do it all within a single pane of glass. A single platform that provides real-time data and has real-time impact. We make IT scale: gone are the days of siloed teams referencing different datasets.
Tanium protects against attacks by orchestrating all activities within a single platform that’s fast, reliable and inherently integrated. Combining the reach of IT Operations, Security, Risk and Compliance Management into one location breaks the cycle of unreliable tools, broken processes and incomplete outcomes across siloed teams – enabling the ability to obtain business insights quickly, reduce time to incident resolution, and lower IT cost and complexity.
Tanium is converging tools across the IT operations, risk and compliance and security functions to bring teams together: one platform that provides visibility, control and remediation in IT decision-making. That’s the power of certainty.
SILVER PARTNERS
CDC Data Centres
CDC provides state-of-the-art, secure, modular, connected and sovereign hosting facilities to public and private sector organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand.
All our Australian data centre facilities have achieved ‘Certified Strategic’ accreditation under the Federal Government’s recently announced hosting framework.
CDC is aligned with the Australian Government’s current and future strategic objectives which provides our customers a safe and secure hosting facility in the support of nationally significant workloads.
Fortanix
Fortanix secures data, wherever it is. The pioneer of Confidential Computing, Fortanix’s data-first approach helps businesses of all sizes to modernize their security solutions on-premises, in the cloud and everywhere in-between.
Fortanix has risen quickly over the last few years to become a leading player in the HSM and key management market, chosen by major brands over the more established but increasingly outdated alternatives. Enterprises worldwide, especially in privacy-sensitive industries like healthcare, fintech, financial services, government and retail, trust Fortanix for data security, privacy and compliance.
Fortanix’s data security platform, based on confidential computing, is simple-to-deploy yet highly scalable, delivering a unified suite of services including encryption, multicloud key management, tokenization and more, all backed by FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified Fortanix Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
Sysdig
Sysdig secures and accelerates cloud innovation. Powered by Runtime Insights, our platform stops threats in real time and reduces vulnerabilities by up to 95%. Our roots are in runtime as the creators of Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection. We apply Runtime Insights across the software lifecycle to prioritize vulnerabilities and instantly detect attacks. From shift left to shield right, customers rely on Sysdig to prevent, detect, and respond at cloud speed.
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"Absolutely enjoyed CISO Melbourne. The team at Corinium put together a great line up of speakers and vendors in a very intimate setting. One key learning, we can rely on being one step ahead anymore, we need to be at least two steps ahead."

"It was great to be attending a conference in person and reconnect with peers in the industry. The sessions were on point and relevant, if we consider human error is still such a notable issue, the discussions around security awareness were very relevant."

"Really informative and engaging with relevant topics providing actionable insights to take back to our organisation."

"Good overall experience with access to vendors in the marketplace that can enhance business cybersecurity posture."

"This is a very useful industry event in information security. Highly recommended!"

"It was a fantastic event, I learned a lot and hope to see all the participants again. The event was also very well organised and I had 2 days quality time in the conference."

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