The Evening team turned on another outstanding Evening Conversation on 10 May 23, featuring Adrian Kitto, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Detexian who spoke on the Topic ‘You, Me & Cybersecurity’.
President Adrian highlighted strong interest in the Sunday 28 May Marvellous Melbourne Cocktail Party starting at 5:00pm. Leaders of Friendship Clubs that share common interest with Rotary Melbourne such National foundation Clubs or Sister City Clubs and many others feature strongly and opportunities remain for Rotary Melbourne members to book for this unique RICON event.
Adrian encouraged Rotary Melbourne members not yet registered to do so by following this link: https://www.trybooking.com/CGFWW
The Clubs RICON Hospitality event at the International Award winning Starward Whisky Distillery in Port Melbourne on Monday 29 May at 6:30pm is creating similar interest and more than 100 places for RICON delegates have bee sold. Despite this there are “still” (no pun intended) places available for Rotary Melbourne members. You can book by following this link: Trybooking HERE
President Adrian handed then over to event Chair, Yidan Xi, who introduced Adrian Kitto, Cyber Security Specialist who has a strong career in information technology and cyber security.
Adrian Kitto’s address alerted us to the human dimensions of the cyber security issue. Starting with state of the art process management thinking - Six Sigma, and demonstrated with real world data the probability of human error rates dramatically increase as the complexity of business processes increase.
He stressed that organisations need to be vigilant in ensuring that complex demands of business software do not open up vulnerabilities that make it easy for hackers to penetrate and exploit. He highlighted recent data breaches at Optus and Medibank as vivid examples of such vulnerabilities.
Cyber Security is important on a personal scale as well, and Adrian noted simple steps we can all take to protect our identity and valued data from theft of misuse. Adrian suggested that we all have access to a lot of things and remembering 200+ usernames and passwords will be impossible. This is why things called password managers exist, these are software that generate and store unique passwords for every login. They normally run in your browser or phone to speed up login. If you use Chrome or Safari browser they’re even built into the brewers now as components. Turn them on, give them a long pass phrase type password, by that you could use something like “Fred is a goldfish.” or the “The cow went bang!” with capitals, spaces and punctuation marks as a pass phrase. No amount of credential stuffing is ever going to guess those ones! And then turn on multi-factor or as it’s sometime called two factor authentication everywhere! This includes on your email, your password manager and on any other systems you might use like Monday.com or Zoom.
Adrian Kitto has kindly agreed to share his slides with members. See ATTACHED.
The meeting closed with thanks and traditional gift presented by Dasun.
