Behind Elttam: Matt Jones Discusses Infosec Innovations and Australia's Cybersecurity Landscape
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Summary
In this episode, Cole Cornford chats with Matt Jones, co-founder of Elttam, an independent security boutique that provides security assessment services. On top of his role at Elttam, Matt is active in the infosec community in a variety of ways, including helping with BSides Canberra's call for papers and writing open-source tooling such as talkback.sh. Cole and Matt chat about the motivation behind founding Elttam, why Australia's infosec industry is lagging behind other parts of the world, the exploit development space, and plenty more.
Timestamps
2:00 - Matt's career background
7:00 - Matt's early challenges finding an opportunity in cybersecurity
11:00 - Why Matt chose to co-found Elttam
13:00 - Cole: Australia's infosec industry is immature compared to US
19:00 - The importance of specialisation
20:30 - Better to do 1 thing really well when bootstrapping
24:00 - Using the right approach for the right context
25:30 - Risks of using a bug bounty program
31:10 - Cole: the bar for pen testing reports should be much higher
37:10 - Training & education for infosec
39:00 - Cole: is infosec a cottage industry?
44:00 - Product vs service approach to cybersecurity
47:50 - Cole: I like looking at source code from 80s and 90s
49:00 - Rapid fire questions
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