- 21 September 2022
- Posted by: Canberra Innovation Network
- Categories: Cyber, General News
This month, the Canberra Cyber Hub, along with a cohort of amazing Canberra-based Cyber Companies will be heading to the UK to take part in the International Cyber Expo.
Ahead of leaving on this education adventure, Canberra Cyber Hub caught up with Aristotle Metadata, Castlepoint Systems and Blue Eagle Technologies to discuss what outcomes they’re hoping to gain from the experience.
Aristotle Metadata
Aristotle Metadata is a data-focused organisation that improves the security and value of data by improving data documentation and governance to efficiently share information with the right users in the right ways.
Our integrated services include managed cloud hosting and support for a growing software-as-a-service suite, migration services, and consulting. Our two flagship products already used internationally across the government and academic sectors are the Aristotle Metadata Registry and the Tablion Data Portal.
The Aristotle Metadata Registry improves how data is described by enabling everyone to be involved in the management of data. Our clients produce more valuable reports, experience improved data governance, and improve the discovery of corporate knowledge.
Tablion Data Portal is a click-and-collect data marketplace solution that streamlines data sharing using metadata to advertise data so users have a better understanding of what is available and how they can request it – before it changes hands.
What are you hoping to gain from the Expo?
Aristotle Metadata is already seeing interest from the UK and EU, and we are already working with clients on pilots there. As our UK client base grows, we are interested in learning more about how we can serve them locally and remotely and learn more about key market drivers in the cyber and data sectors.
What do you believe are the real cyber issues of today?
Digital literacy and trust issues – there is a large skills gap in digital technologies that opens the door for hackers using “social engineering” to bypass complex security solutions. We need education initiatives to give people skills to identify and stop cyber threats before they get into systems.
Where do you feel there can be an improvement to secure government, infrastructures, and enterprise?
We need to recognise appropriate risks and controls – no system is infallible so what we need to do correctly with all systems is understand the cyber exposure risk and identify the correct controls to manage this risk.
This prevents wasted effort from over specifications and reduces risks by ensuring organisations implement the correct baseline controls.
What results are you hoping to see come out of the International Cyber Expo 2022?
We are looking for improved engagement from the UK market, and global participants more broadly. There are also opportunities for us to engage with on-the-ground support to explore future co-working locations to establish local operations.
As a Canberra-based exporter with a growing team, we’re proud to be representing the ACT cyber ecosystem and the Cyber Hub on this international visit.
Blue Eagle Technologies Pty Limited
During the past ten years, Blue Eagle Technologies has provided IT services to substantial clients in Canberra such as Services Australia, Department of Defence, and Telstra. In doing so, they have repeatedly seen clients struggle with security defects in their application source code. These defects are usually fixed by security engineers, like Blue Eagle Technologies, and like any other code updates, they must go through the whole test and release cycle, which is expensive and time-consuming. And most importantly, cyber criminals will not wait a few months for us to fix the code. Having seen this problem again and again, we want to put an end to this, so we created AppSec Fasttrack: an agent-based solution that leverages AI, to prevent web application attacks. It’s deployed on your application server, and scans and protects your application in 15 minutes. Once deployed, it will prevent most of the OWASP top ten web attacks, and help you meet your security compliance obligations. This negates the need for hours of expensive secure coding, and hours of expensive incident response if your applications are compromised.
What are you hoping to gain from the Expo?
With the UK being an expanding and multicultural market, we want to follow in the footsteps of many other Australian businesses’ success stories in the UK. To do this, we are hoping to gain exposure in the UK market while promoting the Australian Cyber Security industry.
What do you believe are the real cyber issues of today?
It takes on average 280 days to fix a vulnerability in the code, according to an IBM study. With the ongoing effects of skills shortages, skills gaps, especially in the security space, are becoming more and more prevalent. Our solution uses automation and artificial intelligence as a force multiplier rather than a replacement. We help fix up to 60% of common vulnerabilities in 30 minutes and boost your security development productivity by up to 80%.
Where do you feel there can be an improvement to secure government, infrastructure, and enterprise?
Through a Canberra Cyber Hub event, I (Phillip Vu) talked to ACSC and other industry experts. We all agree that due to the cyber skills shortage, we cannot find appropriately trained security engineers to patch code. As mentioned earlier, the only answer to this problem is innovation, using automation and artificial intelligence as a force multiplier, not a replacement. The private sector has adopted this approach with many success stories, I believe the public sector will soon see the benefits of the innovations.
What results are you hoping to see come out of the International Cyber Expo 2022?
I understand that we will compete internationally with bigger companies with much more resources. But Blue Eagle has a unique selling point to compete in different segments of the market:
- For Dev teams: our product fixes up to 60% of OWASP top ten vulnerabilities in 30 minutes, and boosts productivity by up to 80%
- For SMEs: we offer a quick affordable reliable solution to protect online applications from most common vulnerabilities.
- For big enterprises: we help you harden your applications to the max and be a few steps ahead of the cyber criminals.
We are confident that we can compete globally. There will be obstacles, but we will welcome them and will learn something to bring home.
We would like to thank the Canberra Cyber Hub and Austrade for doing a stellar job supporting Australian Cybersecurity businesses.
Castlepoint Systems
Castlepoint is the only system in the world that tells you what information you have, where it is, and who is doing what to it – as well as what risk or value it has, what rules apply, and whether they are being met. It is relied upon by Executives, governance and compliance teams, auditors, and IT security to help them meet their obligations, boost productivity, and reduce enterprise risk. It addresses the entire information governance lifecycle through a single pane of glass. It does this completely invisibly to general users, and with no impact on source systems or data. It can be implemented in only hours, and hand you control and oversight of all your information, in any format, in every system. Castlepoint is trusted by some of the largest governments and corporations globally and has been recognised with major awards for information management, cyber security, records management, and AI innovation.
What are you hoping to gain from the Expo?
Create awareness of Castlepoint in the UK marketing, including government, higher education, finance, and critical industry, with the view to generating leads and growing our company globally.
What do you believe are the real cyber issues of today?
Compliance is a key issue, along with immature information management practices. Knowing where your data is – and its risk – is an important aspect of keeping it safe and knowing the immediate damage in the event of a breach.
Where do you feel there can be an improvement to secure government, infrastructure, and enterprise?
Information management, audit, and compliance.
What results are you hoping to see come out of the International Cyber Expo 2022?
Contacts in the UK relevant to our company, including partners and potential employees.
Article originally posted by Canberra Cyber Hub.
