Greaves honoured at Australian Women in IT Security awards

Castlepoint Systems co-founder and CEO Rachael Greaves has been recognised as Australia’s Most Outstanding Woman in IT Security at the annual Australian Women in IT Security Awards in Sydney.

Since 2019, the awards have been celebrating and raising the profile of the Australian IT security, cybersecurity and protective security industry, and inspiring young women and men to consider a career in the sector.

“I am thrilled to be named Australia’s most Outstanding Woman in IT Security for 2022,” Greaves said.

“The awards honour the accomplishments, value and contributions that all the finalists make, giving them the recognition they richly deserve. As such, it’s a real privilege to be named the winner in such a talented category.

“I am very proud of our Castlepoint team, our company and our mission, and to be recognised by the judges is very humbling. The awards are such an incredible initiative, and we are really glad to be a part of it.”

With regulated entities and private sector companies now coming under increasing attacks from malicious actors in attempts to access data, if a breach occurs, it’s essential to quickly understand what the exposure was.

Castlepoint’s powerful AI driven eDiscovery, governance, risk, and compliance solution is a fast, easy way to find, manage, protect and de-risk all of an organisation’s information, with no impact on the way employees work now.

“Knowing and applying regulatory rules is one of the best ways to reduce cyber risk,” Greaves said.

“The best way to find all that risky data, track it, match it to the regulations and rules, and manage it compliantly is via AI.

“Organisations need to do what they can to reduce likelihood of a breach — but they can never completely prevent one. But if attacked, it’s important to reduce the impact, which means knowing our data so that we can focus efforts on what has the most risk, which often includes sensitive personal identifiable information and financial data,” she said.

“Then we must understand the risks specific to the organisation, whether that’s IP, trade secrets, core business data or regulated information — at Castlepoint our core focus is to make this possible.”

A full list of the Australian Women in Security Awards 2022 can be found here.