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Defence Connect Podcast Network
The Defence & Security Podcast Network hosts a unique series of podcasts, featuring discussions with key enablers from across the Australian defence and security industry. The podcasts provide the perfect blend of business intelligence and insights from a range of guests, which include government...
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CYBER UNCUT: OpenAI model goes rogue, Origin Energy hacked, and Victoria takes aim at online bullies
In this week's podcast, Cyber Daily's Daniel Croft and David Hollingworth cover what happens when AI goes wild, one of Australia's biggest energy prov...
CONTESTED GROUND: The blind faith factor – why Australians trust an ADF they don't understand
As global security deteriorates, a major new UNSW Canberra survey reveals a startling paradox in the Australian psyche: unwavering trust in the Austra...
Defence preparedness, artificial intelligence productivity, and Australian industrial resilience
How prepared is Australia for a more contested strategic environment, and what role can defence industry, emerging technology, and economic resilience...
CYBER UNCUT: AI won't replace security teams – it will decide whether they keep you, with Securonix's Ajay Biyani
Join Cyber Daily's David Hollingworth and Securonix's senior vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan, Ajay Biyani, to break down why the challenge f...
CONTESTED GROUND: Shots fired! Chinese missile test shatters Australia's "fog of peace", with Mike Pezzullo
As Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese moves to secure the Pacific and ensure continued alignment with Australia, China threw a wrench in the w...
SPOTLIGHT: Counter-drone innovation, directed energy and delivering operational outcomes, with EOS Defence Systems' Lee Kormany
How is Australia's defence industry accelerating innovation to keep pace with rapidly evolving threats, from autonomous drones through to directed ene...
CYBER UNCUT: Trust is the new attack surface, with ThreatLocker APAC director of operations Emile Barakat
Cyber criminals and nation-state actors are no longer relying on malware alone – they're exploiting trust. Here's what you need to know to fight back....
Strengthening security ties, Fiji defence pact and Australia's counter-drone push
How can Australia balance the need to strengthen international security partnerships while accelerating investment in domestic defence capability acro...
CONTESTED GROUND: Lessons from the UK in political polarisation, generational dislocation and intergenerational warfare, with Ben Dullroy, Bravo Delta Advisory
While Australia's level of political atomisation is far from as bad as what is being experienced in the broader Western world, we're not far-off. How...
CYBER UNCUT: Why cyber security's next battle will be won by speed, with Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar
Qualys' CEO joins the Cyber Uncut podcast to explain why autonomous remediation, smarter patching, and risk-based security will define the next genera...
Defence Industry Development Strategy, Defence reform and Australians fighting in Ukraine
Questions remain about how Australia and its partners can respond to a deteriorating strategic environment while balancing capability development, ind...
CONTESTED GROUND: Budget backlash – has Australia lost its political middle ground?
As Australia faces a populist political surge and the established political parties continue to lose ground, can Australia's "sensible" centre hold, o...
CYBER UNCUT: Beware AI and influencers, NSW Rural Fire Service hacked, and say goodbye to the Essential Eight!
This week, Cyber Uncut looks at important tax time advice, a string of Aussie hacks that have exposed sensitive personal information, and the Australi...
CONTESTED GROUND: Australia's sovereign capability reckoning – why the system is no longer fit for purpose
Host Steve Kuper is joined by former navy logistician Dave Grosvenor and chair of the Gravity Group Steve Hayes for a wide-ranging discussion on Austr...
Defence export ambitions, drone technology and defence manufacturing hubs
Questions remain around how Australia can grow sovereign capability while responding to evolving strategic challenges.
In this episode of the De...
Offshore manufacturing, defence procurement and industrial resilience, with Philippe Odouard and David McLaughlin
How can Australia strengthen sovereign industrial capability while building a sustainable and globally competitive defence manufacturing sector?
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CYBER UNCUT: Anthropic blocks Fable 5, Mackay Sugar tackles cyber attack, and the AFP gets tough on cyber crime
This week, Cyber Uncut looks at the launch – and the blocking – of Anthropic's latest AI models, a raft of cyber attacks on Aussie organisations, and...
SPOTLIGHT: Cyber warfare, autonomy and the future of defence, with Palo Alto Networks' Tom Scully and MAJ GEN (Ret'd) John Davis
How is artificial intelligence changing the world of modern defence operations, cyber security and military decision making?
In this episode of...
CONTESTED GROUND: Fortune favours the bold – building a national security strategy for the 21st century, with Marc Ablong
When Opposition Leader Angus Taylor announced a Coalition government would develop and implement a national security strategy, many shouted, "Finally!...
CYBER UNCUT: ThreatLocker's Emile Barakat talks Essential Eight, cyber policy, and security as a human challenge
ThreatLocker's APAC director of operations, Emile Barakat, joins Cyber Daily's David Hollingworth to discuss what makes the Essential Eight so essenti...
Developing Australia's ability to take a hit and keep fighting, with the honourable Andrew Hastie MP, shadow minister for industry and sovereign capability
Many critics often describe Australia's glaring lack of industrial and economic complexity as a major national security challenge, while others see it...
AUKUS expansion, artillery manufacturing and Australia's regional defence role
As AUKUS implementation accelerates, questions remain around Australia's role in the Indo-Pacific and how the nation should balance capability develop...
SPOTLIGHT: Building mass, capability and trust with autonomous and uncrewed systems, with Michael Mitchell, Elysium EPL director
Australia's maritime estate is simply too vast for any conventionally manned fleet to patrol effectively – uncrewed and autonomous systems will prove...
AI profitability, hacker targets Aussie orgs, and Cyber Daily gets given Shirt of Invisibility…
This week's essential cyber security podcast uncovers a new threat actor targeting a raft of Australian organisations and asks the important question:...
Defence policy, domestic manufacturing and military culture, with Senator Malcolm Roberts
What are One Nation's aspirations and policies for domestic manufacturing, infrastructure and military capability?
In this episode of t...
SPOTLIGHT: LAND 156, counter-drone warfare and electronic warfare capability, with Department 13's Ben Westgarth
How can Australia keep pace with the rapid proliferation of drones reshaping the character of warfare and creating new challenges for militaries, gove...
CYBER UNCUT: Genetec's Mathieu Chevalier on tricking AI and what Claude Mythos really means for the industry
Genetec's lead security architect joins the Cyber Uncut podcast to unpack the impact of AI on vulnerability hunting, prompt injection, and how to beco...
Australia's first 3D printed autonomous USV, with Josh Wigley and Harry Hubbert
How can the new guard of Australian defence technology companies accelerate development of autonomous maritime capability through rapid manufacturing...
Australia's shipbuilding future, landing craft pipeline and autonomous vessels, with Austal CEO Paddy Gregg
How is Australia's naval shipbuilding sector preparing for a new generation of landing craft, autonomous maritime systems and general purpose frigates...
CONTESTED GROUND: Assessing the fallout and implications of the latest Trump–Xi meeting for Iran, Taiwan and Australia
When the leaders of the world's two major powers meet, the world stops to take notice and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent meeting between U...
CYBER UNCUT: Don't let AI control your bank account, Qilin hackers target Australia, and law enforcement strikes back!
Daniel Croft and David Hollingworth tackle the challenges of linking your finances to an AI agent, break down the Qilin ransomware group's Aussie ramp...
Missile manufacturing, Collins LOTE upgrades and submarine base east
Can Australia's defence industrial base and military modernisation efforts keep pace with growing strategic pressures and capability demands?
In...
CYBER UNCUT: Budget priorities, paying ransoms, and Cyber Daily chats with Frank Briguglio, FCTO at SailPoint
Daniel Croft and David Hollingworth analyse the Albanese government's budget, the Instructure breach and ransom payments, and Dan Marks from Austrade...
Aerobatics, military aviation and Australian air shows, with Paul Bennet
What drives the passion behind flying and preserving some of the world's most iconic military aircraft?
And how can air shows inspire the next g...
CONTESTED GROUND: Australia and the West must ask themselves new questions in the face of the modern world, with Robbin Laird
Each and every day, the world is becoming more unpredictable, yet Australia continues with the post-Cold War status quo. As things continue to deterio...
Black Hawk capability, B-21 bomber debate, and upcoming budget
Questions remain around Australia's defence modernisation efforts. Can the nation continue expanding advanced capabilities while balancing cost, readi...
CYBER UNCUT: AI security woes, Aussie schools caught in international breach, and ThreatLocker's Rob Allen
Australian students and teachers have been compromised by an international data breach, with thousands of kids likely impacted. David Hollingworth and...
Supermarine Spitfire, warbird aviation and modern aerial innovation, with Keith Russell
How close can a modern reproduction come to the legendary Supermarine Spitfire from World War II? And what does preserving and flying these aircraft r...
CYBER UNCUT: AI without guardrails – why Australian businesses are sleepwalking into cyber risk
Qualys ANZ managing director Sam Salehi joins the Cyber Uncut podcast to expose the expanding AI attack surface, the governance gaps exposing organisa...
Bushmaster PMV funding, long-range strike expansion and cyber defence
Questions remain around sovereign manufacturing. Can Australia continue scaling its land and cyber capabilities while balancing industrial capacity an...