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Aaron has over 17 years’ experience in cyber, starting as an auditor, pen tester, consultant, and for over a decade he has been serving as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) across a number of South Australian organisations.
He is an active AISA Adelaide Branch Committee Member and ISACA Adelaide Chapter Board Member in Adelaide, supporting engagement and mentoring across the cyber industry.
Aaron has held CISO positions at Flinders Port Holdings, Beach Energy (ASX:BPT) and Flinders University.
Aaron specialises in large scale cyber security transformation – typically working with organisations that don’t already have an established cyber security capability. This has included migrating from a traditional network perimeter-based approach to security, to a modern identity centric zero trust model.
As part of his previous roles, Aaron has worked closely with Boards, Executive Teams and across organisational units to establish greater cyber risk awareness and support for change and investment.
Aaron is our Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction, forming partnerships and marketing and branding.
Aaron actively consults with key roles in cyber risk, strategy, planning and roadmap development, and CISO as a service. He is also an active speaker at various conferences and forums.
In his spare time, you’ll find Aaron on a tropical island, likely sipping a cocktail or under the water diving or snorkelling.
Aaron is a certified diver with a passion for protecting our precious marine life.
Oktane18: Improving the Activation Experience Through Okta API’s
In 2017 whilst working at Flinders University, Jan Marie and Aaron Finnis (Chief Information Security Officer) worked with Okta to improve the new student activation experience using Okta APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and shifted identity to the front of the digital experience.
A 20-40 minute process for commencing students was reduced to under 60 seconds, using a streamlined approach.
Within a 10 week period, 35,000 users migrated across to Okta and 10 Single Sign-on apps were launched at the same time.
The process resulted in 468 less support cases and 2600 less support calls to the Student Support Centre from the year before.
