Seriously Risky Business Newsletter
July 15, 2021
Seriously Risky Business is back!
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I’m Tom Uren, the new editor of the Seriously Risky Business newsletter. We'll be firing off a new edition next Thursday, but before then I thought I should introduce myself.
My path into the security discipline, like many of yours, wasn't a straight line. My formal training was as a scientist: I have a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Australian National University.
In the early 2000s, after spending some time researching the molecular genetics of forest trees, I joined the Australian Signals Directorate, (known then as the Defence Signals Directorate). ASD is Australia’s information security and signals intelligence organisation, our version of the United State’s NSA or Britain’s GCHQ.