Don't get distracted by the shiny cyber machines

Two themes kept emerging at the inaugural SINET61 cyber innovation conference in Sydney this week. "A strong capability around threat intelligence", said Steve Glynn, chief information security officer (CISO) at ANZ Bank. It'll be about building an understanding of the threat actors, what they're trying to achieve, and what techniques will be needed to defeat them. Threat intelligence was one of the hyper-repeated buzz phrases at SINET61. John Haig, head of security, risk and compliance at Dun & Bradstreet, was one of many speakers who mentioned the other: machine learning.