About Me
Richard Keirstead is an Australian cyber security and identity and access management professional based in Melbourne, Australia.
Richard has held senior leadership roles most recently at National Australia Bank, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Deloitte, EY. Richard founded the (ISC)2 Melbourne Chapter, serving six years as the chapter president and chair, as well as founded and chaired the Cloud Security Alliance Australia Chapter.
Richard has held senior leadership roles most recently at National Australia Bank, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Deloitte, EY. Richard founded the (ISC)2 Melbourne Chapter, serving six years as the chapter president and chair, as well as founded and chaired the Cloud Security Alliance Australia Chapter.
Who am I? |
I was born in North America and soon after school moved to Japan to work for multi-national corporations. After a career as a book publisher for the Charles E Tuttle Publishing Company in Tokyo, Japan, I changed fields to cyber and information security, and worked from numerous technology consulting and professional services organisations, helping organisations better manage their risk related to technology, cyber and operational management. Later in my career I became a bank employee. After a lengthy time in Japan, the timing was right to move countries, so today I am based in my adopted country of Australia.
My LinkedIn profile shows my professional background, in summary: I work with organisations to solve business problems by applying risk management techniques in a commercial and pragmatic way, to build and maintain successful technology risk programs that help drive business through information, technology and cultural changes. I am a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and have presented papers at or been active at numerous conferences and summits in Australia, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. As part of working in my field, I maintain several professional certifications some of which require ongoing learning. These include:
I am also a published author of several Japanese language publications. |