The Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub together with Optus held a special event on privacy and data handling on Thursday, 22 February 2018 with the appearance of Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim.
On the day the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme comes into effect, the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub and Optus organised a luncheon for leaders from business, government and academia. We were pleased and honoured to hear from the Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim who spoke about the significance of this new scheme and what this means for Australian business, large and small.
This event was also the occasion for A/Prof. Christophe Doche, Executive Director of the Cyber Security Hub to introduce the Cyber Security Hub and showcase academic programs in cyber security as well as executive education and short courses.
Finally, Prof. Dali Kaafar Scientific Director of the Cyber Security Hub and Research Group Leader at Data61, gave a seminar entitled "Privacy in Information-Rich Data-driven Organisations". Prof. Kaafar presented the latest R&D development in Privacy Preserving Datas-sharing, an industry McKinsey estimates to unlock $5-7 trillion of economic value across 7 industry sectors. Prof. Kaafar pointed out several misconceptions of the notion of privacy risks, and highlighted associated threats of handling and managing data.