Mike Foster
Technology Strategist, Cybersecurity and AI Advisor
An inspiring technology leader and strategist whose extensive experience in ICT, AI and Cybersecurity equips him to deliver engaging presentations on leadership, innovation and high performance. Drawing on decades of executive experience in Australia and internationally, Mike motivates audiences with practical insights into driving growth, leading teams and thriving in rapidly changing industries.
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Mike is a highly experienced technology executive with over 25 years in the ICT industry across Australia and North America. He has held senior leadership positions including CEO and Chairman of Fujitsu Oceania, Global Corporate Officer at Fujitsu, CEO of KAZ Group, Managing Director at Telstra Business Sales, and senior roles at EMC, NCR Australia, and Teradata. Under his leadership, teams of thousands delivered enterprise-scale solutions with revenues exceeding $1.3 billion, while Mike spearheaded initiatives in Big Data, Analytics, AI, Cybersecurity and digital transformation.
Educated at Victoria University (Bachelor of Education) and Charles Sturt University (Master of Strategic Marketing), Mike has also completed executive programs at Harvard and Babson College and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Cybersecurity at UNSW. Beyond business, he is an active advocate for workplace diversity, a Male Champions of Change STEM board member, and a former director on multiple corporate boards, including AIIA and Telstra joint ventures.
A seasoned public speaker, Mike inspires audiences worldwide—from Australia to North America, Europe and Asia—with insights on leadership, high performance, technology strategy and organisational growth. Since leaving Fujitsu, he advises emerging and established Australian companies in Automation, AI and Cybersecurity, bringing unparalleled experience in strategy, competitive positioning and innovation.
Outside of work, Mike enjoys cycling, AFL football, music, and spending time with his wife Annie, their two children, and extended family.
Topics
Data Management and Creating a Cyber Security Framework For Executives
What a senior non-IT manager will learn at the workshop:
- To give each group a high level overview of what is happening in the world of Cyber?
- Get them to question; are they doing enough? Or do they know enough? What is your Cyber Maturity Assessment score?
- Show them the many dimensions as to what is happening in cyber and that it isn’t enough to leave it with the IT team.
- To give senior executives and board members so tools/questions to ask.
- Make Governance work for you.
- Ensure checks and audits as to what IT, Data Management and Workforce Behavior doing what they attest to?
- Check there is compliance to cyber and security standards
- Give management their top 5 exposures to cyber and what they need to be doing to address them.
- Review the company response plan across a number of scenarios. Within your Company, Supply chain or Ecosystem.
Aligning Technology and Processes to Support Your Future Business Strategy
The importance of using AI/Automation and associated Tools to combat Cyber. The importance of having Executive Dashboards helping you manage the following:
- Prevention: Risk scores are generated by systems based on variables such as behavioral patterns and geolocation. Zero trust architecture s combined with machine learning. Asset management leverages visibility using machine learning. Comply with regulations by improving discovery, classification, and protection of data using machine learning. Data security and data privacy services use machine learning for data discovery.
- Detection: AI, advanced machine learning, and static approaches, such as code file analysis, combine to automatically detect and analyze threats and prevent threats from
spreading, assisted by threat intelligence - Response: AI /Automation helps in orchestrating security technologies for organisations to reduce the number of security agents installed, which may not talk to each other or, worse, may conflict with each other.
- Recovery: AI/Automation continuously tunes based on lessons learned, such as creating security policies for improving future accuracy. AI also does not get fatigue, and it assists humans in a faster recovery
