Head of Cyber Risk, Resilience and Governance at Qantas

What drew you to working in your chosen field?

It was actually a fantastic stroke of luck about 4 years ago with a return from maternity leave role to lead a cyber risk assessment project which turned into a business as usual role (my background is in risk and finance).

Which of your many career achievements do you feel is your greatest and/or most exciting?

Being promoted to a leadership role without a technical information security or IT background and that my diversity of thinking and experience is valued by my organisation and the broader cyber community.

What would you say is the currently the biggest challenge facing the international cyber community?

Finding ways to share relevant and actionable intelligence and information at scale. We still use our own trusted networks but struggle to scale or institutionalise this especially outside of our own industry.

How could Australia further engage with our international partners to harness the opportunities of the digital age?

Through public private partnerships where business and Government come together to build capacity particularly in regions with low cyber maturity and solve for the future similar. The DFAT International Cyber Engagement Strategy is a great enabler for this.