ABSTRACT
Australia’s Defence community has never faced a more challenging cyber threat landscape, while concurrently its cybersecurity analysis operations are constrained by information handling processes due to CLASSIFICATION. This presentation by Thales will explore how commercial data discovery and anonymisation, which is successfully used throughout the financial services industry today, could enable Defence to dynamically anonymise cyber intelligence data so that it can be safely shared with specialist external cyber analysts or platforms. Combined with the ability for Defence to reverse the anonymisation process within their secure domain, Defence will also be able to respond to cyber threats identified by third party intelligence services or analysis. The ultimate result being improved cybersecurity outcomes at a lower overall cost than building bespoke Defence cyber analysis capabilities, while concurrently supporting local cyber intelligence companies to grow their capabilities to secure other Australian government or commercial clients.

BIOGRAPHY
Brian Grant is the Thales Regional Director with responsibility for Thales’ Data Protection business in Australia and New Zealand. He started his career in technology when he enlisted, at 15 years of age, in the Royal Australian Air Force over 40 years ago. Since then, he has had extensive hands on and leadership experience in delivering innovative and unique solutions for organisations, with an emphasis on networking and cybersecurity. In the past decade, he has held country and regional leadership roles for a number of technology start-ups. Brian is highly committed to the embedding of security to assure confidentiality, integrity and availability in our data dependent world.