Canberra Committee Members 

Branch Chair

Leonard Kleinman

Len Kleinman is the Chief Cyber Security Advisor and spokesperson internally and externally for RSA APJ focusing on Government. He has over 25 years of experience in the information technology industry, with an early focus on Oracle CASE, network operations and database administration. His current focus is to work with executives and business stakeholders to make security a strategic priority that translates into business value. For the last 14 years, Len has worked in senior roles in IT security at the Australian Tax Office, including the Senior Director of Vulnerability Management and Research, governance and risk, compliance, and the IT Security Advisor role. Focus areas included specialist advice and policy on a range of business and technical activities, strategic and operational planning, service provider engagement, contingency and incident response, and threat intelligence.

Committee Members

John Karabin

John Karabin is the National Director of Cybersecurity for NTT Ltd Australia. With over 25 years’ experience in the telecommunications, ICT and Security industry, he has worked for both start-ups and multinationals in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia. Previously he was a partner with EY involved with setting cybersecurity strategy, assurance and audit work covering both the government and commercial sectors. Before that he was the Managing Director that ran the Verizon cybersecurity group for the APAC region. Over his career he has developed broad experience in bringing together technology and business requirements in a trusted and resilient manner.

John recognises the IT, cybersecurity landscape and the threats that impact it are changing on a daily basis. Therefore it is crucial that security is seen as more than a matter of technology – a knowledgeable risk based organisational approach is needed. 

John has a Graduate Diploma in Technology Management from Deakin University, and a Bachelor of Engineering, Communications from Curtin University. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Australian Information Security Association.

Marc Furze

A member of AISA since late 2014.
Extensive experienced in working in the Federal Government market since mid-80s across a number of roles in the IT Security, ICT, Geospatial, Media, Telecommunications and office technology fields.
Currently the Federal Region Sales Manager for Thales eSecurity.

Nigel Cox

Nigel has been a member of the AISA Canberra Committee since early 2009, and an AISA member since 2006. He is currently Operations Manager, Security IT Services at the Department of Human Services, and has worked at this Department in its current form and its former guise as Centrelink since 1997. Prior to that he worked in Security at the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of Administrative Services, and in Mainframe Software and Operations roles at Ampol and Xerox.

Billie-Kate Rourke

Billie-Kate joined the AISA Canberra branch committee in 2019 after becoming a member with AISA earlier the same year. Billie-Kate commenced her work in the cyber security industry after completing her undergraduate studies. She is a full time employee at Cybermerc, a sovereign company who specialise in threat hunting technologies and training. She is passionate about contributing to the information security of Australia and is eager to further develop her knowledge and skills in the cyber domain.

Billie-Kate's undergraduate degree was a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University within which she majored in Criminology and Sociology and minored in Behavioural Studies. She is also currently completing a Juris Doctor through the Australian National University. Throughout this degree she intends to specialise in the field of Cyber Law. 

Jack Bell

Jack became an AISA member in 2018 and joined the Canberra branch committee the same year. 

In 2017 Jack was given an opportunity to start his cyber security journey with a move to Sydney with Shearwater Solutions. Transferring back to Canberra at the start of 2018 in an account management role, Jack worked to assist Federal Government and Commercial entities to achieve their business outcomes by resolving their application security, operational security, education and governance, risk and compliance challenges.

Jack currently works as the Engagement Lead for the ANU Cyber Institute working to establish and maintain strategic partnership agreements with industry, government and the community.