Speakers

Craig Davies is the CEO for the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network Ltd (ACSGN). Australia's Cyber Security Strategy, launched in April 2016, committed to establish a Cyber Security Growth Centre to position Australia as an attractive location for cyber security research and innovation. The ACSGN has been created to support the development of a vibrant and globally competitive Australian cyber security industry aimed at enhancing Australia's future economic growth and help protect Australia's interests online.

Prior to joining the ACSGN, Craig was Head of Security for Atlassian where he lead the security program supporting all aspects of Atlassian’s business from product security, to their Cloud operations and the protection of Atlassian itself. Before joining Atlassian, Craig was at CSO of Cochlear Ltd. He started his career in Financial Services, initially with the Commercial Bank of Australia, then Westpac Banking Corporation, where he worked across the organisation in Retail Banking, Legal Services and the Westpac IT Group. Craig is passionate about the importance of people in security programs, and the role of security leaders in delivering pragmatic solutions that support business growth. Craig has 20+ years experience in Cyber security and has worked in a number of fields including Infrastructure operations and management, security architecture, and website development and operations.

Max Kilger is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems & Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Kilger received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University. He has over seventeen years of experience in the area of information security concentrating on the social and psychological factors motivating malicious online actors, hacking groups and cyberterrorists. Max has written and co-authored a number of journal articles and book chapters on profiling, the social structure of the hacking community, cyberviolence and the emergence of cyberterrorism. He recently co-authored the popular book Reverse Deception: Organized Cyberthreat Counter-Exploitation and with his co-authors has just completed his second book Deception in the Digital Age. Max was a member of a National Academy of Engineering committee dedicated to make recommendations for combating terrorism. He is also a member of a multinational instructional team for a NATO counterterrorism course. He is a frequent national and international speaker to information security forums, federal law enforcement and the intelligence community.

Tan Kean Siong is an independent security researcher and active member of The Honeynet Project (under the umbrella of Malaysian Chapter). He is a member of the Board of Directors at The Honeynet Project. By day, he currently works as an Incident Analyst for various advanced and targeted cyber attacks on a global scale. By night, he enjoys reading the backlog of various honeypot sensors over the net, analyzing and hunting for malicious activities. He contributes efforts in open source network honeypot development, including Dionaea, Honeeepi and Glutton. He has presented in conferences e.g. Hack In The Box, HoneyCon Taiwan and other open source community events.

Kara Nance is a Professor of Computer Science and the founder of Security Works, a computer security consulting firm. Her research interests include digital forensics, data systems, security fundamentals, visualization, and computer security. She serves on the Honeynet Project Board of Directors and is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity and associated issues with an emphasis on national security.

Maximilian Hils is a PhD student at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is one of the main developers of mitmproxy and actively contributes to several other high-profile open-source projects. Starting as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student at The Honeynet Project in 2012, he now leads the GSoC program at Honeynet.

Adel Karimi is a security engineer and researcher focused on honeypots, deception based security and active defense. He has been a member and chapter lead at the Honeynet Project since 2010, and recently started Trapbits, an open community of honeypot enthusiasts in Australia. Adel has spoken at several conferences and community events such as BSides and Ruxmon. He earned his MSc in IT engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran.

Emil Tan has experience and expertise in many areas. He started his career as a researcher focusing on incident handling and intrusion deception. He later worked in a Security Operations Centre (SOC). Now, he’s working in the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) industry.
Emil is an active advocate of the infosec community. He founded and leads Edgis, an infosec community group in Singapore. He also leads the Singapore Chapter of The Honeynet Project.

Michel Oosterhof is currently employed as a Staff Sales Engineer at Splunk Inc. Working from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, he covers the Emerging Markets region. He specialises in security analytics and works with a wide variety of customers across the Middle East and Africa and Eastern Europe. Michel holds an MSc in Applied Physics and is certified as a CISSP, CISM, CISA and GCIH. He runs an open source project called Cowrie, a SSH/Telnet honeypot used to gather threat intelligence on various actors on the internet.

Mahmud Ab Rahman currently works as Information Security Researcher for NetbyteSEC. Prior to that, he worked as an Information Security Specialist Manager at MyCERT department. Currently he is taking in-charge of tracking botnet, android reverse engineering and malicious documents tracking on APT to analyze and dissect information security threats.

His education background comprises of Master Degree in Computer Science from National University of Malaysia in 2006. Prior to that, he obtained a Degree in Computer Science from the same university. Moreover, he is recognized for conducting numbers of training for organizations to talk on advanced security courses. He is a occasional speaker at conferences such as DEFCON (USA), Hack In The Box (MY), HITCON (TW), FIRST Conference (USA), Honeynet Annual Workshop, FIRST-TC (JP,MY) and many more.

Paul Nevin is a career black hat hacker and antidisestablishmentarianist. Having spent the last five years in prison for breaking into Starbucks global payment systems to siphon funds off to impoverished Chilean coffee growers. He was only caught when his associates in Anonymous ratted to police in a plea bargain. As part of his probation requirements he must teach IT security skills to orphans and CEOs. He is on day release to present this talk. You are advised not to approach him carrying any RFID enabled credit cards.

Hanno Lemoine is a senior research engineer in the Android team of G Data in Germany. He joined The Honeynet Project in 2015 and is part of the Norwegian chapter. In 2015 and 2016 he was the mentor of the DroidBot GSoC Project

David Watson was the Chief Research Officer and a Director of the Honeynet Project from 2006-2016, helping to co-ordinate and promote the development and deployment of honeynet related security tools worldwide, including organising annual participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). He has build and operated many large scale distributed honeynet sensor systems over the past 18 years. David has been a member of the Shadowserver Foundation since 2008, is one of their Directors, and leads their Special Projects Team in support of international Law Enforcement operations. David regularly presents and teaches hands on training classes at information security events, and is passionate about helping network owners and cybercrime victims to defend themselves using tools and information sources that do not necessarily come with strings attached, or huge price tags.