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Behind Elttam: Matt Jones Discusses Infosec Innovations and Australia's Cybersecurity Landscape

19 Jun 2024

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SummaryIn this episode, Cole Cornford chats with Matt Jones, co-founder of Elttam, an independent security boutique that provides security assessment services. On top of his role at Elttam, Matt is active in the infosec community in a variety of ways, including helping with BSides Canberra's call for papers and writing open-source tooling such as talkback.sh. Cole and Matt chat about the motivation behind founding Elttam, why Australia's infosec industry is lagging behind other parts of the world, the exploit development space, and plenty more.Timestamps2:00 - Matt's career background7:00 - Matt's early challenges finding an opportunity in cybersecurity11:00 - Why Matt chose to co-found Elttam13:00 - Cole: Australia's infosec industry is immature compared to US19:00 - The importance of specialisation20:30 - Better to do 1 thing really well when bootstrapping24:00 - Using the right approach for the right context25:30 - Risks of using a bug bounty program31:10 - Cole: the bar for pen testing reports should be much higher37:10 - Training & education for infosec39:00 - Cole: is infosec a cottage industry?44:00 - Product vs service approach to cybersecurity47:50 - Cole: I like looking at source code from 80s and 90s49:00 - Rapid fire questionsMentioned in this episode:Call for FeedbackThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpSpotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

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