Cybersecurity: Beware the insider, says expert Keith Lowry

By Deborah Snow
Updated October 24 2016 - 9:18am, first published October 22 2016 - 12:15am
Cyber-security expert Keith Lowry says organisations can control perimeters with all the latest firewalls and up-to-date routers and every other kind of technological barrier,  but eventually someone will breach the external defences. Photo: Anthony Johnson
Cyber-security expert Keith Lowry says organisations can control perimeters with all the latest firewalls and up-to-date routers and every other kind of technological barrier, but eventually someone will breach the external defences. Photo: Anthony Johnson

Intelligence veteran turned cyber-security expert Keith Lowry calls it the "zero-day suicide". It is  Friday lunchtime in the sleek Martin Place offices of a Sydney law firm, and the visiting American is laying out the details for a phalanx of senior bankers and lawyers, who are listening intently.