Damien Manuel
Deakin University
Damien is the Director of Deakin's Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation and the Chair of the Australian Information Security Association, a not-for profit organisation which aims to improve Cyber Security in Australia at a Government, Industry and Community level.
Former roles include CISO for Symantec Australia and New Zealand, Senior information security governance manager and later as an enterprise IT and security risk manager at National Australia Bank (NAB), where he was responsible for managing the bank’s information security standard globally. He also held senior roles at RSA, Telstra, Ericsson, Melbourne IT and at the Oceania Cyber Security Centre.
Damien is currently on CompTIA’s Executive Advisory Committee in the USA, the Victorian Ombudsman’s Audit and Risk Committee, the board of RSA Australia, the chair of Standards Australia’s Standards development committee for cyber security and privacy and helps mentor entrepreneurs through CyRise.