Stewart Walters

With almost 30 years experience working in tech, Stewart is a Managing Director, Security Architect, Lecturer, and Committee Member.

Has specialties in design and implementation of Cryptography/PKI solutions, Essential Eight Solution Design (especially Application Control and Multi-factor Authentication), Privilege Access Management, Active Directory Architecture etc.

Lectures at South Metropolitan TAFE (Murdoch campus), on the subjects of Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Communications, Project Management and other subjects for the Advanced Diploma of Cyber Security.

President-Elect of ISC2 WA Chapter (Chartering) and member of the STOTM Administration Team.

Enjoys dancing, padding fields with false data, and long walks on the beach.


Session

09-27
16:00
55min
Points A (Australia) through to Q - R (Quantum-Resistance)
Stewart Walters

Cryptography is largely seen as one of the few technologies that Defenders have advantage over the Attackers.

However there are some seismic shifts coming up in the field of cryptography which could tip the advantage in favour of the Attackers.

Is Australia ready for it?

This talk is based on some of my work over the last 6 months where I authored a multi-year strategy for cryptography and key management for a Critical Infrastructure organisation in Australia.

We'll be touching briefly on where cryptography has been, where it is today, why change is necessary, and where cryptography needs to go in order to prepare for the future (including an era of Quantum Computing).

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