Darren Kane

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Total Posts: 9

Last Post
19 Jul 2010

Director Corporate Security & Investigation
Telstra
http://www.telstra.com.au/cyber-safety
Darren is Telstra’s Officer of Internet Trust & Safety and the Director of Telstra’s Corporate Security & Investigations (CSI) Group. Telstra’s CSI group provides strategic and operational security related advice and solutions across the company. Darren also provides responses to lawfully requested information from law enforcement agencies.

Darren sits on various boards and committees including the Federal Government’s Consultative Working Group on Cyber-Safety. As a father of four, cyber-safety is a subject in which he has developed an extremely keen interest.

Darren’s background includes roles in the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Security Investments Commission.

Darren’s other interests include a highly competitive appreciation for sport as a slightly tragic Sydney Swans supporter and a horse racing buff. He also has a passion for travel but unlike his impressive career, doesn’t go anywhere unless it’s via cyberspace.

A new ‘one stop shop’ for cyber-safety advice

19 Jul 2010

Author: Darren Kane.
Have you ever quickly needed an answer to a question, jumped online to get it and then spent then next 10 minutes trying to refine the search query enough to find what you are after?
When it comes to cyber-safety and cyberbullying, everybody needs to know how to stay safe online at all times.

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Posted in Telstra Now

It’s not Rocket Science…

07 Jun 2010

Author: Darren Kane.
In the past, people have said to me: “you’re never going to be strapped in next to Andy Thomas to fly the shuttle”. After working out what it meant and realising I couldn’t run fast enough to catch the culprit, it got me thinking.

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Posted in View Point

Life without it…

04 May 2010

Author: Darren Kane.
If you own a mobile phone, you will all know the feeling. That sick sense of dread in the bottom of the gut. Usually half way to the train station you realise you have forgotten something. Even worse, it’s an item you really need. It’s a bit like under arm deodorant, almost impossible to get through the day without it. Oh God!! Yes, you’ve left your mobile at home.