Edward Farrell is Director & Principal Consultant for the Australian company Mercury Information Security Services. Edward has nearly two decades experience in the IT sector, having worked early on in network design and IT operations, before transitio

In this special episode of Secured, Abhijeth Dugginapeddi takes the reins as guest host and Cole Cornford answer the questions for once. Cole discusses some of the ups and downs of his career, what advice he has to share, and plenty more. Abhijeth Du

Karissa Breen is the founder of KBI, a marketing and communications agency that works with cybersecurity and deep tech companies. After working in technical roles early in her career, Karissa saw that the complexity of cybersecurity often made it challeng

Jason Murrell is a cybersecurity advocate and consultant with more than two decades of experience in business and entrepreneurship. In this episode Jason chats with host Cole Cornford about both the successes and setbacks he’s experienced in the startup w

When Sam Fariborz moved to Australia from Iran, she had been working as an IT manager. While she had plenty of experience and strong technical skills, the move to Australia was challenging, and in this episode Sam discusses some of the barriers to entry s

As a consultant, Laura Bell-Main earned a reputation for being the Mary Poppins of security, swooping in to fix problems with her big bag of tricks. More recently, she made the leap from consulting into founding a product company, securing funding from

Ken Johnson is co-founder of Dryrun Security and co-host of the Apsolute AppSec podcast. Ken has many years experience working in AppSec in a variety of roles, including CTO of nVisium and Application Security Engineer at GitHub. Ken chats with Cole Cornf

In the latest episode of Secured, Cole Cornford chats with Iain Dickson, Full Spectrum Cyber Practice Lead at Leidos Australia, a technology company working across defence, aviation and national security. Iain is also the co-founder of ComfyCon, an online

Ian Yip is the founder and CEO of Avertro, a venture backed startup that creates software to help teams manage and measure their cybersecurity performance. In this episode Cole Cornford spoke with Ian about how being a salesperson is a valuable skill for

Formerly a software engineer, today Edwin Kwan is Head of Application Security and Advisory at Tyro Payments. Edwin is also a contributing journalist to the Its 5:05 Podcast, which highlights cybersecurity and open source software news. Host Cole Co