Dan Halpin
Chief Executive Officer
Dan was employed in the investigation & intelligence industries for the past 20 years and holds formal qualifications in policing, investigations, intelligence, security operations and security risk management. Dan is globally known as a pioneer in the investigation of cryptocurrency fraud.
He was formerly employed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), New South Wales (NSW) Police Force, Queensland Police Service and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Department of Justice & Community Service. Dan was seconded to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and NSW Crime Commission during his employment as a NSW Police, Counter Terrorism Intelligence Officer. During this time Dan, provided intelligence and prosecution support to the Operation Pendennis Terrorism trial in Sydney during 2007-2009. Further, Dan was a Consultant Advisor to the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet during 2016-2017; focused on breaches of the Australian Public Service (APS), Code of Conduct.
Prof. Alana Maurushat
Special Advisor
Alana is a Professor of Cybersecurity and Behaviour at Western Sydney University (WSU) where she holds a joint position in the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences and in the School of Social Sciences, and is Key Researcher with the CRC Smart Satellites. She is currently researching on Payment Diversion Fraud and Ransomware, Tracking Money-Laundering through Bitcoin Blenders, distributed extreme edge computing for micro-clustered satellites, and Ethical Hacking.
She lectures and researches in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Security by Design, Cyber Risk Management, and Artificial Intelligence across the disciplines of law, criminology, business, political science and information communications technology.
Alana is the Cyber-Ambassador for the NSW Cybersecurity NetworkAlana has undertaken consultancy work on cyber security, open data, big data, technology and civil liberties for both the Australian and Canadian governments, industry and NGOs. She has done media with 60 Minutes, the New York Times, Insight, ABC, and 730 Report, and is the author of many books and articles.
