Rachael Greaves Chief Executive Officer at Castlepoint Systems
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f you are prone to pessimism and fearful of the
BLEEDING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES
future do not listen to Rachael Greaves, CEO and
To counter these threats Greaves says organisations
cofounder of cybersecurity company Castlepoint
will need to rapidly adopt ‘bleeding edge’ technologies.
Systems. Her view of the future in cybersecurity
“Government and industry in Australia have
is dismal in the extreme: a ‘post-privacy’ world in
historically been slower to adopt artificial intelligence
which compromise of personal information will be
and other emerging technologies at the same pace as
the norm.
many other countries, but we can’t afford to lag when our adversaries are racing ahead.”
“We can expect all our personal information to be compromised,” she says. “We can’t use security
Castlepoint Systems, the company she co-founded
questions anymore. We can’t use mobile phone two
in 2016, aims to counter such threats. It promises
factor authentication. Anyone still doing that will be
to “manage, protect and de-risk all your information
targeted (successfully) by what have previous been
everywhere, with no impact on the way you work
fairly inept actors. The low-motivation, low-capability
now. Every item, every system, on premises and in
bad guys will increasingly be stealing our money and
the cloud.”
secrets, because it will become trivial for them to do so.”
Running this company is a far cry from Greaves’ university education, a degree in anthropology and
Meanwhile, sophisticated threat actors in this post-
classics, but she says both were solid foundations for
privacy world will be able to compromise almost
the career she eventually chose.
anyone. “For every soldier, leader or government official they will know where their kids go to school,
“I wanted to understand things deeply, see patterns,
what compromising experiences they have had and
apply rules. That’s what I found so enjoyable
what financial pressure they are under. They will find
about Latin. I am also very values-driven and my
many levers to create trusted insiders, either through
anthropology study gave me a strong foundation
compromise or just sophisticated social engineering.”
in human-centred thinking. The intersection of the
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