Critical Infrastructure Security Centre

In Episode 1, Season 3, Hamish Hansford, Head of National Security and Brendan Dowling, Deputy Secretary Critical Infrastructure and Protective Security sit down to reflect on stepping into new national security roles and leading through a period of converging threats. From lessons learnt during the CrowdStrike outage to future critical infrastructure protection, they unpack how collaboration and trust will shape Australia’s resilience.

In Episode 9 of Season 2, Hamish Hansford, Head of National Security of the Department of Home Affairs sits down with Stephanie Crowe, Head of the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD’s) Australian Cyber Security Centre where they have a critical conversation about ASD’s evolved cyber security mission and priorities, quantum threats and collaborative partnerships.

In Episode 7 of Season 2, Sally Pfeiffer, First Assistant Secretary of the Critical Infrastructure Partnerships and Policy Division sits down with Colin Renouf, Chief Information Security Officer at Healius Limited, where they have a critical conversation about the multifaceted impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on cyber security and critical infrastructure.

In episode 5 of season 2 Critical Conversations, Deputy Secretary Cyber and Infrastructure Security Hamish Hansford and David Sandell, CEO and co-founder of CI-ISAC, sit down to a conversation about threat sharing in the critical infrastructure environment.

In episode 3 of season 2, First Assistant Secretary Justine Jones sits down with George Dionisopoulos, co-chair of the Data Sector Group for the Trusted Information Sharing Network. They discuss the threat of trusted insiders in the data sector & nationally how critical infrastructure entities can approach risk management.

In episode 1 of season 2, First Assistant Secretary Sally Pfeiffer of the Critical Infrastructure Partnerships and Policy Division sits down with Dawn Cappelli from Dragos. They discuss the business challenges associated with OT cyber security and the national level implications.

In this episode Deputy Secretary Hamish Hansford and Ambassador of Ukraine in Australia, His Excellency Mr Vasyl Myroshnychenko, discuss protecting critical infrastructure assets and supply chains during times of conflict.

In Episode 2 of ‘Critical Conversations’, the National Cyber Security Coordinator speaks with Mr Brendan Dowling, Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology. The discussion canvasses cyber security in the Pacific, attribution of cyber incidents, and the importance of strong international partnerships.

We close the first season by speaking with Griffith University to understand what industries can do to mitigate trusted and malicious insiders in high risk settings, especially in the aviation sector.

In episode two, we look into the risk of trusted insiders in the supply chain and how to manage and mitigate these risks with the Australian Logistics Council.

Journey inside the mind of a trusted insider with a new podcast series by the Australian Department of Home Affairs' Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC).