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Jess Dodson

Jess Dodson

Senior Security Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft

Brisbane, Australia

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Based in Brisbane and with 20+ years of experience in both IT operations and cyber security, as well as a stubbornness to push people to get the basics RIGHT, Jess wears the title of Security Architect proudly!

After spending nearly 15 years as an Identity systems administrator for government, she made the jump to the corporate world. Jess is now a Senior Cloud Solution Architect in Security with Microsoft, where she’s been for the last 5 years, where she spends most of her days helping organisations improve their cyber security posture in as many ways as possible. If you’re ever floating around in the tech spaces on the web, you can often find Jess (known as “girlgerms” colloquially on the ‘net) assisting communities, speaking at conferences and helping to get other women inspired about cyber security and technology.

In her downtime, Jess spends far too many hours playing video games & with Lego and occasionally remembering she also has a 7yo to look after!

Area of Expertise

  • Government, Social Sector & Education
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • cybersecurity
  • Microsoft sentinel
  • Microsoft Entra
  • EntraID
  • Microsoft Security
  • IT Security
  • Cybersecurity Strategy
  • zero trust
  • Zero Trust Security
  • cybersecurity awareness
  • Cyber Security basics
  • Privileged Identity & Access
  • Conditional Access
  • Incident Response
  • azure management
  • Microsoft
  • Azure Security
  • Women in Cyber
  • ASD Essential 8

Security 101 - Do I *really* need to say this again?!

Speaking with other technical folk, I notice that we focus on all the cool shiny security tools that are out there, but we seem to neglect the basics - the really simple things that everyone should be doing with their accounts and systems that can really make the difference. Come hear me rant about the basic Security 101 things we, as technical professionals (no matter the role!), should be doing.

Jess Dodson

Senior Security Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft

Brisbane, Australia

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