Technology & Security: Data Integrity, AI & Cyber with Kate Carruthers and Dr Miah Hammond-Errey

Описание: 🎙Tune in to Data Integrity, AI Risk, Cyber Realities and tech leadership with Kate Carruthers🎙

In the latest episode of the Technology & Security Podcast host Dr. Miah Hammond-Errey is joined by Kate Carruthers (FGIA, MAICD). Kate is the head of data analytics and AI at the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She shares her journey from defending Westfield against state and non-state cyber attacks to leading UNSW's enterprise data, AI, and cybersecurity efforts. She notes boardrooms are evolving from basic cyber literacy to probing AI risks like models, data, and risk registers. This episode will help you understand data and AI risks, the need for AI sovereignty and redundancies, data as well as risks to data integrity and the future of botnets. Kate shares her incredible wealth of knowledge, check this episode out.

Highlights
🔒 “Integrity is the real risk now”: if attackers can change data, they can change destinies—from cars to pacemakers to government decisions.​
🏠 Home routers and IoT devices are quietly conscripted into botnets, and Carruthers wants mandated patching and minimum standards for consumer tech.​ Formed from unpatched, end-of-life home routers and IoT devices—right down to light bulbs and washing machines—she calls for mandated vendor patching and baseline security standards to protect both households and major organisations.
🤖 She argues the future is smaller, focused AI models—cheaper to run, less water-intensive, and better aligned to specific industry problems than giant LLMs.​
📊 Translation of technical expertise to human interventions is critical: At UNSW, an AI model predicted course failure with over 95% accuracy, what followed was a two‑year effort to design ethical student interventions.​
👥 Boards are now asking about AI the way they once did about cyber. Every organisation needs an AI risk register tailored to its context.​
🌐 She calls for Australian sovereign AI capabilities so outages or geopolitical decisions—such as companies or political agendas influencing access—cannot switch off critical services overnight.​

About the Guest: Kate Carruthers is a distinguished leader in data, analytics, AI and cyber security across industry, higher education, startups and board governance. Over the past decade she has received countless awards and been named as one of Australia’s most powerful women in tech, a data visionary and data analytics innovator. She’s also a strong advocate of women in STEM and host of the Data Revolution podcast.

About the Host: Dr Miah Hammond-Errey is a national security and technology expert. She is the CEO of Strat Futures Pty Limited and an adjunct Associate Professor at Deakin University. She is the author of “Big Data, Emerging Technologies and Intelligence: National Security Disrupted". She is currently leading development of the Cognitive Readiness & Resilience project - a platform to help leaders who make high stakes decision improve.