FEATURE REVIEW RSA CONFERENCE 2017 Australian Cyber Security Showcase Evening
out of control, so we should refer with our partners on major incidents, work together to build mutual defences and put infrastructures in place for joint action. We should make sure we are prepared for what lies ahead. We need to be ready for the era of quantum computing, the digital atomic bomb is on the not too distant horizon and the first such nation to gain this capability will pose a serious threat to the rest of the world. The US should lead a coalition of nations to prepare for the quantum future and ensure we have the right cyber defences in place when it comes. The year 2016 was a watershed year for cyberspace and for a lot of the wrong reasons. But it has made us more realistic about the danger we face and more clear eyed about what needs to be done. And although the cyber future is bleak, we cannot let the fear of the unknown out way what we do know, in that we have the world’s greatest minds working to defend our networks.
// CYBERROOS HEAD TO SILICON VALLEY Releasing the Australian Cyber Security Industry Capability Statement in San Francisco, alongside the RSA Conference 13 – 17 February 2017, about thirty Australian companies
Craig Davies, CEO ACSGN
gathered at the lush Fairmont Hotel for an Australian Cyber Security Showcase event, hosted by Chis Oldfield, Australian ConsulGeneral to the USA. According to the Capability Statement, “In terms of citation impact, an indicator of research quality, Australian cybersecurity research ranks ahead of the US, Canada, England, Germany, Japan and Singapore.” The Austrade and Australian Cyber Security Growth Network Trade Mission to the
Dr Vikram Sharma, CEO QuintessenceLabs
San Francisco Bay Area had set out to make the link between Australia’s leading research and close a comparable gap when it comes to correlating this to an established industry. This gap is noticeable. With prominent pavilions from Germany, England, Korea and Israel on the RSA Conference Showroom floor, some of the leading Australian cyber security companies being promoted on the Mission have already left Australia, basing themselves in Silicon Valley.
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