House Select Committee on Cyber Security for Small to Medium Sized Businesses and Organisations
19 October 2026
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15:11 - 17:14
Speaker 1
I declare open this public hearing of the Select Committee on Cyber Security for Small and Medium Sized Businesses and Organisations. I'm Sally Situ, I'm the chair of the committee and I want to acknowledge, I want to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners on the land on which we meet and that we are calling in from today and pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging and also acknowledge the cultures of any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people present with us today. This hearing will be broadcast on the Parliament's website and the proof and official transcripts of the proceedings will be published on the committee's webpage. And I remind members of the media who may be present or listening online of the need to fairly and accurately report the proceedings of the committee.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to note that the committee has put out a survey to hear from small businesses and organisations about their experiences with cyber security. This is an easy way for smaller business owners to make their voices heard by the committee and the survey is still open and available on the inquiry website. I now welcome representatives from a wide range of organisations to give evidence today. Before the Hansard record, would you please state your name and the capacity in which you appear before the committee?
And just want to also thank everyone for your flexibility in some of the time changes, really appreciate that. Might go if we start with Mr. Buckley, then Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Von Sauma, and Mr. Irwin, if you'd like to introduce yourselves in that order.
17:14 - 17:25
Speaker 2
Yeah, good morning, chair, good morning, committee. I'm Paul Buckley, the managing director of Colexsi, a Canberra-based cybersecurity and technology company.
17:25 - 17:43
Speaker 3
Good morning, chair and committee. It's Darren Hopkins. I'm a partner at McGrathNicol. We're a professional services firm that supports both small and medium and large organisations, and we're happy to have put a submission in today as well.
17:43 - 18:08
Speaker 4
Good morning, Chair and Committee, and thanks for having me. My name is Max Von Zaumer. I'm a cyber security specialist at Prytek, and Prytek is a managed services and cyber security provider based in Tasmania. And yeah, we have a lot of small-medium businesses that are located here in Tasmania.
18:08 - 18:23
Speaker 5
Hello, Committee. I'm Luke Irwin, CEO and principal consultant of Aegis Cyber Security, a boutique fractional CISO and governance, risk and compliance specialist firm for the SMB market in Australia.
18:23 - 19:29
Speaker 1
Great, thanks very much to you all for being here and also for your very detailed submissions that you've provided to the Committee. This hearing is a legal proceeding of the Parliament. The giving of false or misleading evidence is a serious matter and may be regarded as contempt of Parliament.
The evidence given today will be recorded by Hansard and attracts parliamentary privilege. As today's hearing is occurring via video conference, I remind all participants to put themselves on mute unless they have been given the call to speak. This will greatly help the broadcasting and transcription teams. And also just before you speak, if you wouldn't mind just saying your name, that will also help the transcription team. I now invite you to make a brief opening statement before we proceed to questions.
And if we could perhaps go in the same order for the brief opening statements. So Mr. Buckley, if you've got one to make.
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