Akolade’s 10th Annual Fraud and Risk Management Summit 2021 galvanises national and international senior fraud, risk management, and cyber security professionals to prepare for, and tackle intrusions in a hyper-connected, and increasingly vulnerable corporate environment.
The Summit addresses many of the challenges facing fraud, risk management, and cyber security professionals – with 40+ speakers sharing timely, relevant and cost-saving techniques to tackle illegal activity at all levels of business.
Strengthen your fraud, risk management and cyber resilience strategy
Protect your reputation and brand from fraudulent activity
Invest in agile and forward-thinking programs
Enhance your investigation, surveillance and tracking capability
Prevent organisation-wide identity theft and digital fraud
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
Department of Home Affairs
NSW Fire and Rescue
Transparency International
Department of Premier and Cabinet VIC
Australian Digital Health Agency
National Australia Bank
NSW Police Force
Veolia Australia and New Zealand
Transgrid
CBHS
BPay
Healthscope
RACQ
Silver Chain
Canon & Australian Online Fraud Council
La Trobe University
IFW Global
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IoT Sec Australia
AusCyber
UNSW Canberra Cyber
Optus
Attorney-General’s Department
Attorney-General’s Department
Neo4j
Imperva
NTT Ltd, Australia
Darktrace
Darktrace
Snyk
DataZoo
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8:00am
Registration opens
8:45am
Opening remarks from the Chair
Ken Gamble
Executive Director & Chairman
IFW Global
9:00am
Keynote
Strengthening your fraud and corruption control policy
• Sharing clearly defined responsibilities to manage fraud and corruption
• Investing in risk-based preventative and detective controls
• Reviewing the fraud and corruption control framework and reporting
Patricia McDonald SC
Commissioner
NSW Independent Commission against Corruption
9:30am
Planning against cyber attacks: Are you ready?
• Understanding the threat environment
• What to expect when a cyber attack occurs
• Preparing your organisation to respond effectively
David Cullen
Head – Victorian Government Cyber Incident Response Service
Department of Premier and Cabinet VIC
10:00am
Graph Technology in the Future of Anti-Money Laundering and Fraud Detection
• Demystifying Graph Technology: Emergence of many credible use cases show it is more versatile than you think
• From Panama Papers to FinCEN Files – how Graph has been working all along
• How Neo4j’s Graph Data Platform – which includes data visualization software – uncovers difficult-to-detect patterns that far outstrip the power of a relational database
• Variety in real-time: use cases in the fight against financial crimes, including first-party bank fraud, credit card fraud, ecommerce fraud, insurance fraud, and money laundering
Peter Philipp
General Manager – ANZ
Neo4j
10:30am
Panel Discussion
Streamlining the information-sharing, fraud detection and risk management channels
• Taking an integrated approach to governance, risk, and compliance
• Streamlining the internal control frameworks, and risk management strategies
• Protecting your lines of defence in a fast-changing world
Moderator:
Ken Gamble
Executive Director and Chairman
IFW Global
Panellists:
Uttam Mukherjee
Chief Risk Officer
CBHS
Mitra Minai
Chief Information Security Officer
Healthscope
11:00am
Morning tea
Stream A:
Fraud and risk management
Stream B:
Cyber security and resilience planning
Tackling organisation-wide fraud and risk in a fast-changing environment
Securing your IT networks, platforms and infrastructure in cyber space
Stream Chair:
Ken Gamble
Executive Director and Chairman
IFW Global
Stream Chair:
Linda Cavanagh
National Network Lead
AustCyber
11:30am
11:30am
Case Study: Taking a risk- based approach to define and deliver the cybersecurity strategy
· Translate the technical language of cyber risk and align with business strategy and objectives
· Techniques in presenting the cybersecurity strategy to the board
· Demonstrating the business value of cybersecurity
· Cybersecurity metrics and dashboard reporting
· Moving the organisation from cyber defense to cyber resilience
Mitra Minai
Chief Information Security Officer
Healthscope
Building your organisation’s cyber security capabilities
• What comprises a good cyber security policy?
• How do you build cyber awareness across your organisation?
• Why gain buy-in with executives and boardrooms with your action plan?
Linda Cavanagh
National Network Lead
AustCyber
12:00pm
12:00pm
Managing crypto-currency fraud
· Who is behind crypto-currency fraud?
· How organised is this fraud?
· Why are Australians falling victim to this fraud?
Ken Gamble
Executive Director & Chairman
IFW Global
Integrating the operational and cyber security risk
• Pooling your operational and cyber security risk into an integrated plan
• Working across silos to share knowledge and corporate data
• Taking a coordinated approach to cyber security planning
Jo Stewart-Rattray
Chief Security Officer
Silver Chain
12:30pm
Technology Insights
The changing landscape of fraud and risk
· The impact of digitisation and the increase in fraud
· The importance of utilising compliant and reliable data
· How to protect your customers and your reputation
· Adapting to the complex and new regulatory environment
Memoona J.Anwar
Head of Compliance and Digital Strategy
DataZoo
12:30pm
Case Study: Protecting networks, internet access and IT systems
• Clarifying the parameters for IP network and security planning
• Managing your security architecture, auditing, penetration testing and risk assessment
• Securing the core and mobile networks, together with the routing and gateway design
Udaya Wijesinghe
Senior Cyber Security Architect
Optus
1:00pm
Networking luncheon
2:00pm
2:00pm
Tackling criminal activity with best-in-class investigations
• Building high-performance investigative teams to tackle criminal activity
• Maximising the impact of anti-crime programs
• Taking a resilient and innovative approach to problem-solving
Darren Jameson
Detective Chief Inspector
NSW Police Force
Video Presentation: Strategies to identify and manage vulnerabilities across networks and systems
· Managing your network vulnerabilities
· Clarifying the security protocols, firewall, and security management
· Tackling the vulnerability scanning and assessment processes
Lani Rafiti
Chief Executive Officer
IoT Sec Australia
2:30pm
2:30pm
Panel Discussion: Securing the enterprise against fraud and risk
· Managing your investigation, security and risk
· Sharing information about risk across the enterprise
· Ensuring you invest in proactive planning and mitigation strategies Moderator
Ken Gamble
Executive Director and Chairman
IFW Global Panellists
Darren Jameson
Detective Chief Inspector
NSW Police Force
Trevor Cushen
Head of Information Security
BPay
Panel Discussion: Improving your organisation’s security and governance posture
· Maintaining the right systems and security levels across the enterprise
· Managing the design phase to reduce flaws with the auditing and controls
· Building customer trust by keeping information safe and secure
Moderator:
Linda Cavanagh
National Network Lead
AustCyber
Panellists:
Jo Stewart-Rattray
Chief Security Officer
Silver Chain
Udaya Wijesinghe
Senior Cyber Security Architect
Optus
3:00pm
Afternoon tea
3:30pm
Case Study: Importance of situational awareness in a continuously changing risk environment
· How do you ensure the right focus for risk management and make better decisions?
· Getting teams to look across departments and to think like a risk manager
· What is needed to streamline operational and stakeholder risk
· Future energy and a changing risk landscape
Andrew Bornhorst
Head of Risk and Insurance
Transgrid
4:00pm
Case study: Securing your billing and payment systems against intrusions
• Ensuring information assets and critical infrastructure is fully protected
• Securing connectivity with customers, partners and service providers
• Integrating information management and security planning
Trevor Cushen
Head of Information Security
BPay
4:30pm
Technology Insights Edge to End – User to Data Tracking from On-premise to the Multi-Cloud
• Understanding the challenges of linking a user’s application activity to the data access layer
• Solving this challenging problem and blind spot in data security
• Linking user activity from the network edge, through the Application/API and down to the data they touch in a data store layer
• Understanding how Edge-to-End telemetry helps drive effective and efficient Digital Forensics, Fraud Detection and Incident Response functions
Reinhart Hansen
Director of Technology, Office of the CTO
Imperva
John Karabin
Director Cybersecurity
NTT Ltd, Australia
5:00pm
Closing remarks from Chair and end of day one
Ken Gamble
Executive Director & Chairman
IFW Global
8:00am
Registration opens
8:45am
Opening remarks from the Chair
Asaf Ahmad
Chief Information Security Officer, ICT Governance, Security and Risk
NSW Fire and Rescue
9:00am
Why tackling cyber security is a central priority for tactical response and planning
Luke Muffett
Acting Assistant Secretary
Cyber Policy and Strategy Branch Department of Home Affairs
9:30am
Case Study: Building a smarter security system to tackle ‘intelligent’ cyber threats
• Understanding new threats and how this impacts your organisation
• Why the threat landscape is constantly changing and how to prepare
• What is needed to be proactive and pre-empt emerging threats
Raghu Gandhy
Chief Information Security Officer
Veolia ANZ
10:00am
Case study: Managing security in a fully virtualised environment
• Tackling security in a virtualised environment
• Developed and testing the disaster recovery (DR) action plan
• Securing remote access to web applications and the intranet
Asaf Ahmad
Chief Information Security Officer
ICT Governance, Security and Risk NSW Fire and Rescue
10:30am
Technology Insights Securing the Future of Work with Cyber AI
The future of work remains unpredictable. More than ever before, business leaders need to remain confident that their operations can continue securely in the face of regional or even global crises, and while sections of the economy remain more uncertain and fragile than ever, cyber-attackers are ramping up their campaigns. Organizations must rethink their approach to security, and rely on new technologies like AI to achieve much-needed adaptability and resilience.
In this session, learn about:
• Emerging threats from the transition to remote work
• How AI has adapted to new patterns of work Darktrace’s use of Cyber AI to protect the dynamic workforce
• Defensive Autonomous Response capability
Lakshika Nadarajah
Team Lead and Senior Account Executive
Darktrace
Nathan Ryan
Cyber-Security Technologist
Darktrace
11:00am
Morning tea
Stream A:
Next step to fraud and risk management
Stream B:
Outlook for cyber resilience and security planning
Growing the tactical defences to detect, tackle and manage fraud
Drivers for cyber security in a post Covid-19 world
Chair:
Ken Gamble
Executive Director and Chairman
IFW Global
Chair:
Asaf Ahmad
Chief Information Security Officer, ICT Governance, Security and Risk
NSW Fire and Rescue
11:30am
11:30am
Why collaboration is key to fighting fraud
• Tackling fraud attacks that leave organisation and employees more vulnerable
• Balancing the rate of digital adoption with fraud-fighting capabilities
• Using the right tools and techniques to manage incidents
Anthony White
Manager Oceania – Fraud and Counterfeit (Legal Department)
Canon
Chairperson
Australian Online Fraud Council
Securing software applications to detect and manage security breaches
• Improving the coding behaviour to secure software applications
• Managing the access and control functions
• Establishing the identity upfront to protect against unauthorised access
• Building the logging and intrusion detection capability
Dr Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage
Senior Research Fellow (Research Associate Professor) – Cyber Security
La Trobe University
12:00pm
12:00pm
Tackling front-line crime investigations
• Lessons for government and law enforcement agencies
• Current and future challenges
• Uncovering and exposing fraud
Ken Gamble
Executive Director & Chairman
IFW Global
Technology Insights
Are we forever doomed to software supply chain security?
The adoption of open-source software continues to grow and creates significant security concerns for everything from software supply chain attacks in language ecosystem registries to cloud-native application security concerns.
This session explores:
• How developers are targeted as a vehicle for malware distribution
• Why we depend on open-source maintainers to release timely security fixes
• Where a race to the cloud creates new security concerns for developers
• What it takes for software-driven businesses to develop fast and stay secure
Lawrence Crowther
Head of Solutions Engineering APJ
Snyk
12:30pm
12:30pm
Panel discussion: Pooling resources to tackle risk, security breaches and intrusions
• What does it take to pool corporate knowledge to tackle fraud?
• How does risk management, fraud detection and information security play out?
• Why streamline your knowledge-sharing capabilities?
Moderator:
Ken Gamble
Executive Director & Chairman
IFW Global
Panellists:
Reducing cyber risks through influencing user behaviour and awareness programs
• How the human factor plays out with cyber security planning
• Why some cyber resilience programs fail and what you can do about this
• What is needed to influence behaviour and create a cyber safe culture within large, complex organisations
Chirag D Joshi
Business Information Security Officer
AMP
Glenn Rower
Manager, Counter Fraud and Investigations
RACQ
Nigel Phair
Director
UNSW Canberra Cyber
Serena Lillywhite
Chief Executive Officer
Transparency International
1:00pm
Networking luncheon
2:00pm
Tracking Australia’s performance to tackle corruption
• How Australia fares on the global corruption index
• Clarifying Australia’s National Integrity Systems: the blueprint for Action
• Mapping business integrity and bribery prevention across high-risk sectors
Serena Lillywhite
Chief Executive Officer
Transparency International
2:30pm
Case study: Tackling fraud in the consumer space – perspectives from the insurance sector
• Estimating the cost of financial fraud involving consumers
• Investigating and acting on insurance applications or claims
• Countering fraud with a speedy response time and turnaround
Glen Rowe Manager
Counter Fraud and Investigations
RACQ
3:00pm
Afternoon tea
3:30pm
Building cyber resilience for healthcare providers
• Building your cyber resilience, compliance, and risk management capabilities
• Protecting the security architecture and inter-connected platforms
• Securing service delivery platforms in the digital age
Dr Rani Yesudas
Cyber Security Architect
Australian Digital Health Agency
4:00pm
Developments in testing fraud controls or pressure testing
• Tackling unseen or unchecked fraud
• Leveraging practical tools and guidelines to tackle fraud
• Learning f rom counter-fraud investment cases
Andrew Lawrence
Senior Legal Officer (Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre)
Attorney-General’s Department
Eliza Williams
Policy Officer
Attorney-General’s Department
4:30pm
Closing remarks from the Chair and end of day two
Asaf Ahmad
Chief Information Security Officer
ICT Governance
Security and Risk NSW Fire and Rescue
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