Amanda-Jane Turner

Amanda-Jane was in the first cohort to be named a Fellow of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) in 2019 and has won multiple infosec industry awards. She is a firm believer that diversity in all its forms should be encouraged to promote innovation and find solutions to challenges facing the world. Amanda-Jane specialises in looking at the mechanisms of cybercrime and its mitigation, and is a frequent presenter at cybersecurity conferences.

She currently works as a Senior Manager of a Cyber Security Operations Centre. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Cyber Crime Intelligence Analyst with the Australian Government. She has held various roles including security incident response, malware analysis, digital forensics, cybercrime intelligence, communications, and fraud investigator.

Amanda-Jane writes a column on cybercrime for the Women in Security magazine, volunteered at AISA as the Brisbane Branch Executive Chair for many years, is a Justice of the Peace and, an Adjunct Lecturer in Criminology at UQ. From 2016 to 2018 she supported the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) by coding, creating and promoting their first blog and was an interim chapter lead in Queensland. Amanda-Jane mentors students and those new to the infosec industry, speaks at conferences and has guest lectured at Griffith University. She writes about cybercrime and security, tweets as @empressbat, plays MMORPG and her drink of choice is coffee.