CRESTCon Australia 2025 agenda

Our 2025 event has taken place, but you can still see the amazing speakers we had below. Stay tuned for updates on our 2026 event!

Please note that timings are subject to change. 

08:00 – 09:00    Registration and Coffee

09:00 – 09:10    Introduction and Welcome: Lukasz Gogolkiewicz, Master of Ceremonies, Accent Group

09:10 – 09:20    An update on CREST activities: Nigel Phair, Director Asia Pacific, CREST

09:20 – 10:00    Beyond the Breach: Uncovering the Untold Lessons from Australia’s Cyber Crises: John Karabin and Jesse Pearce, McGrathNicol

10:00 – 10:30    Flowcharts of doom: Mapping adversary behaviour like a threat artist: Jayant Kripalani, Senior Security Solution Architect, Cisco

10:30 – 11:00    Morning tea

11:00 – 11:30    Security threats from quantum computing – a realistic assessment of the threat, lessons from real-life experience and practical advice: Rajiv Shah, Managing Director, MDR Security

11:30 – 12:00    Attacking SAML in 2025​: Louis Nyffenegger, CEO, PentesterLab

12:00 – 12:30    From Alarm to Authority: Restoring Integrity in “Cybersecurity Research”: Edward Farrell, CEO, Mercury Information Security Services

12:30 – 13:30    Lunch

13:30 – 14:00    Echoes of Deception: War Stories from the Red Teaming Deepfake Attacks​: Tim Dillon, APAC Market Leader, NCC Group

14:00 – 14:30    The Rise and Fall of RansomHub: Lessons from the FY25 Frontline​: Nick Thanos, Senior DFIR Analyst & Craig Martin, Head of Incident Response, Triskele Labs

14:30 – 15:00    Afternoon tea

15:00 – 15:30    Evolution of Red Teaming Windows Domains to the Cloud​: Lloyd Simon, Co-Founder, Tanto Security

15:30 – 16:00    Pig Butchering Scams: A Personal Story and Global Threat: Daisy Wong, Head of Security Awareness, Medibank

16:00 – 16:20    Closing remarks: Lukasz Gogolkiewicz

16:20 Networking drinks