Mapping the Essential Eight - How the ACSC’s Cyber Strategies Help Organisations Defend Against Common Threats

Scott Hesford has over a decade of experience in IT security. Before joining BeyondTrust in 2019, he worked as Principal Consultant across APJ for CA Technologies where he specialised on technologies within Identity Governance and Administration, Advanced Authentication, Privileged Access Management, Web Access Management and API management. A trusted cyber security advisor to enterprise and mid-market customers alike, his experience spans across several industries including finance, utilities and manufacturing in addition to state and federal governments. 

Yaroslav is a multi skilled security professional with over 15 years of information security experience and an education in business administration. He holds CISSP and SABSA Charted Practitioner (Architecture) certifications. His experience ranges from building IdAM Strategy and deploying complex IdAM project to implementation of the ZTNA based enterprise security architecture. His ability to communicate at business and technical levels allows for deeper understanding of the IDAM business requirements and translating them into actionable strategies, architectures and solutions.

Yaroslav is part of the Identity Access Management Practice in CyberCX.

Brad is an experienced security consultant who prioritises understanding business objectives to ensure areas of risk may be remediated through pragmatic, business-centric approaches.

Commencing within the information security industry as a penetration tester, Brad has developed a significant understanding of technical systems and security architecture, and how organisations and their systems are realistically exploited by sophisticated threat actors. Transitioning into the Governance, Risk and Compliance space with a focus on Defence and Defence Industry, Brad leverages his extensive experience in offensive security, to help organisations understand risk, considering the perspective of an attacker to make the world a safer place.

Brad is part of the Governance Risk and Compliance Practice in CyberCX.