AISA's Western Australian Security Day Conference, PerthSEC is a one day conference with a program featuring sessions designed to foster dialogue, share best practices and help shape Australia's cyber security future.  The conference theme for PerthSEC is Year of the Fire Horse: Cyber & Quantum Readiness

Speaking Themes

1. Strategic Leadership: Leading Through Rapid Change

This stream is suitable for speakers who want to share information about: 

• Cyber strategy
• Executive & board engagement
• Public policy & government
• Risk governance
• AI & supply chain risk
• Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)

2. Building Resilience: Responding at Speed

This stream is suitable for speakers who want to explore: 

• Lessons learnt from real world incident response & crisis management, 
• business continuity and operational resilience
• Threat intelligence and threat hunting
• Security architecture, cloud, application and infrastructure security

3. The Human Element: Privacy, Crime & Trust 

This stream is suitable for speakers who want to examine:

• Security culture & awareness
• Regulation & privacy 
• Identity
• Human behaviour & criminology
• Insider threat
• AI powered attacks & defence
• Deepfakes 
• Misinformation

Speaking Session Styles 

All sessions are 40 minutes in duration and the conference program will feature the following session types:

Session
Up to two presenters will share insights on a focused topic, drawing from their relevant experience and unique perspectives. A session highlights voices with recognised impact in their area of expertise, offers valuable insights and takeaways.

Panel
A moderated discussion featuring three panellists and a moderator who bring diverse experiences and perspectives to a focused topic. A panel session offers a dynamic exchange of ideas, insights, and stories from voices recognised for their contributions and thought leadership in their field. 

Interactive Session
The interactive sessions will start with a 15 minute presentation from the speaker.  Following this, the session becomes interactive, with a focus on gaining audience participation, whereby the speaker turns facilitator, garnering audience engagement through Q&A, and discussion.