Melbourne Cloud Security Summit 2025

As businesses accelerate their digital transformation journeys, the cloud is central to driving innovation and operational efficiency. However, this shift brings with it new security challenges that require organisations to rethink their strategies for safeguarding data, applications, and infrastructure in the cloud.

• The Intersection of Digital Transformation and Cloud Security: The rapid adoption of cloud technologies is reshaping security practices, requiring a shift from traditional to modern, cloud-native security models.
• Building a Secure Cloud Foundation: Establishing a strong cloud security posture involves leveraging identity management, encryption, and continuous vulnerability assessments to safeguard critical assets.
• Adapting to Future Cloud Security Threats: Emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and automation are revolutionising cloud security, enabling proactive threat detection and response.

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This session explores strategies for designing cloud architectures that prioritise security at every layer, maintain business agility, and strengthen resilience against emerging risks.

• Embedding security principles into cloud architecture design to minimise vulnerabilities from the start
• Leveraging continuous monitoring and threat intelligence to stay ahead of a rapidly changing risk landscape
• Implementing robust compliance and governance frameworks to build trust and ensure regulatory alignment

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As cloud environments evolve and become increasingly complex, the future of cloud security is more critical than ever. This panel will explore emerging trends, future challenges, and cutting-edge strategies that will define the next generation of cloud security.

• What does the future of multi-cloud security look like, and how can businesses stay ahead?
• How will AI and machine learning evolve to become essential tools in threat detection and incident response?
• What are the next big cybersecurity risks that organisations need to prepare for in cloud environments?
• How can organisations build more resilient cloud security frameworks to adapt to an ever-changing landscape?
• The role of automation in the future of cloud security: Can we rely on it to defend against evolving threats?

In this innovative session, attendees will be faced with a series of scenarios that they may face in their roles. Attendees will discuss the possible courses of action with their peers to consider the ramifications of each option before logging their own course of action.

Results will be tallied and analysed by our session facilitator and results will impact the way the group moves through the activity.

Will we collectively choose the right course of action?

Detecting & Responding to Cloud Attacks in Seconds

Cloud attacks happen fast! You have 5 seconds to detect, 5 minutes to correlate and triage, and 5 minutes to respond to threats. Join us in for an insightful session where we delve into the critical aspects of protecting cloud-native applications, Kubernetes clusters, and containerised workloads from sophisticated cloud attacks.

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Senior Leader, Sysdig

This demonstration session will uncover how an industry leader overcame a common industry challenge. They’ll take you inside their world and show you the process and tools they use to build something brilliant.

This demonstration session will uncover how an industry leader overcame a common industry challenge. They’ll take you inside their world and show you the process and tools they use to build something brilliant.

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Senior Leader, Thales

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Select a topic of discussion and engage in an interactive roundtable discussion with a group of your like-minded peers.

• Why Zero Trust is becoming the gold standard in cloud security.
• Challenges in implementing Zero Trust in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• How organisations can evolve their security models to ensure continuous verification.
• Success stories and lessons learned from enterprises adopting Zero Trust.

This session will explore the complex balance between maintaining user privacy and ensuring robust security protections, examining the trade-offs that organisations and individuals face in the cloud.