Allen Baranov is a Principal Consultant in the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team at CyberCX where his daily grind is helping organisations understand, achieve, and then maintain compliance with government and industry standards such as ISO-27001 and PCI DSS. As a PCI subject matter expert, he knows more about the little numbers on the face of credit cards than is healthy for any single individual.
A very naive Allen started in information security roughly 25 years ago and has worked across pretty much all the security domains and organisation types. He was not aware at the time just how important spreadsheets would be in his life.
Allen has presented at a number of conferences and meet-ups including ComfyCon, AISA CyberConference, BSides Melbourne, CrikeyCon, DEF CON Blue Team Village, and others. He has also mentored first-time speakers for the Diana Initiative and other conferences. He also founded the DEF CON Melbourne group (DCG-11613).
Allen's speaking style is relaxed and he uses humour and unexpected pathways to inject interest in topics that are important but potentially dry and tedious. His presentation style is unique and has to be seen to be believed.
