Cyber Resilience is an Australian advisory firm built on a simple conviction: resilience rises and falls on leadership, not on controls alone. From a Sydney consultancy to an internationally recognised authority on board-level cyber and AI risk.
The convictions behind how we scope work, who we put in the room, and what we will tell a board it does not want to hear.
Strategy starts with how the organisation creates value and which digital crown jewels matter, not with a framework checklist.
Advice comes from people who have carried the accountability themselves and reported to a board under pressure.
If a director cannot act on it, it is not advice. We translate complexity into decisions, not diagrams.
Governance that only says no pushes risk into the shadows. Our job is to let the business move faster, safely.
Boards need oversight they can demonstrate, not comfort they have been given.
Protecting what matters most, properly, beats protecting everything thinly.
The founders saw boards failing to understand technical cyber risk, and leadership lacking the skills to have meaningful influence and impact. Cyber Resilience Pty Ltd was registered in May 2018 to translate complex risk into business language, and practitioners into business risk partners.
Training methodology institutionalised through the co-founding of the Cyber Leadership Institute, moving rapidly into virtual executive coaching and building a community of security leaders across dozens of countries.
Having built the business while still in their corporate roles, all founders moved into it full time. The AI imperative is driving renewed demand for cyber governance that scales at machine speed.
Demand for training and advisory spreads well beyond Australia, now serving clients in more than 85 countries. New strategic partnerships, including with ISC2, the world’s largest cyber security membership organisation, drove the platform’s fastest growth in the United States.
Every person who advises our clients has held the accountability themselves.
CEO & Co-Founder
Multi-award-winning cyber executive, speaker and Amazon bestselling author of The Five Anchors of Cyber Resilience. Winner of ISACA International’s Michael Cangemi Award for major global contributions to information security governance, and named one of the Top 7 Global Cyber Security Leaders in 2023 by Security Magazine and ISACA.
CISO & Co-Founder
A four-time Fortune 500 Group CISO who has led global cyber strategy for Qantas Airlines, Standard Chartered Bank, S&P Global (Markit) and IBM. Named among the Top 100 CISOs globally in both 2017 and 2022, and a recipient of the SANS Institute Innovator of the Year award.
Faculty Member
Former Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company and thirteen years with the FBI building enterprise security programmes. Julie has held senior CISO leadership roles across Fortune 500 organisations, helping executives strengthen resilience and align security investment with business strategy.
Beyond our core team we engage experienced associates and consulting partners, so the person in the room has led security in an environment like yours.
Associate — vCISO
Independent cyber security consultant and virtual CISO. Former senior security executive across financial services and consulting, with expertise in board advisory, cyber strategy, governance and risk.
Associate — CISO & Advisor
Chief Information Security Officer and cyber security advisor with extensive experience across healthcare, defence, government and critical infrastructure. Specialist in security transformation, resilience and executive leadership.
Associate — Government
Former Chief Information Security Officer for Western Australia. Independent cyber security advisor with deep expertise across government and critical infrastructure.
Associate — Strategic Advisor
Former Chief Information Security Officer and cyber executive at EY. Independent strategic advisor specialising in cyber security, digital transformation and critical infrastructure.
Head of Operations
With us since 2019, Catrina oversees projects and day-to-day operations with a focus on detail and efficiency, keeping delivery on track.
Member Operations Manager
Joined in 2020 and leads member onboarding and experience, building connections and refining process so every interaction is worthwhile.
Sales & Marketing Operations
An IT background paired with digital marketing, automation and CRM expertise, streamlining operations and supporting data-driven decisions.
Course Administrator
Ensures every participant has a seamless training experience from start to finish, with integrity and a genuine desire to help people succeed.
Executive Assistant
Supports the co-founders directly, bringing an analyst background to calendar management, event coordination and workflow optimisation.
Course Development Coordinator
Turns complex material into clear, visually compelling content, blending design with a strategic approach to course development.
AI is reshaping both sides. Adversaries have better tooling — convincing deepfakes, AI-assisted phishing, automation at scale. Defenders have it too, if they use it well.
But the real exposure sits in the governance gap. Organisations are adopting AI faster than they can govern it, and accountability for AI decisions is often undocumented. That is the problem we were built to solve, in a new form.
Whether you need a board briefing, a strategy you can defend, or a CISO for the days you actually need one.