Cybersecurity is an unnecessarily confusing space for consumers.

In a recent auDA survey, consumers could not cite a single authoritative or official source of information and support for cyber security. That is why the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), with support from auDA, has created a new website security tool.

.auCheck is a free tool that helps you quickly test your website security. The tool provides you with simple, plain-language explanations of issues to help uplift your cybersecurity.

Bart Hogeveen is an international cyber security expert and has led the team at ASPI that developed this tool. At the webinar, Bart will explain how the tool came about, how it works and how it will uplift Australia's cyber security.

Bart Hogeveen

Bart Hogeveen is Head of Cyber Capacity Building at ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre. Across his career he has focused on international peace and security, international aid and national security aspects of cyber affairs.

ICPC’s cyber capacity building program constitutes a comprehensive portfolio of initiatives that look at supporting States with the development of national cybersecurity strategies, strengthening ICT capabilities in developing nations and enhancing regional mechanisms for stability in cyberspace.

The program also manages a comprehensive set of scenario exercises, validation tests and evaluation tools in support of cyber crisis management structures of local, State and federal governments as well as regional (security) organisations.

Bart is part of a network of regional thinktank and university experts across Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Together with ASEAN-based thinktank partners, he authored the Sydney Recommendations on Practical Futures on Cyber Confidence Building in the ASEAN region as part of the Special ASEAN-Australia Summit.

With support from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Bart currently directs a multiyear effort supporting the implementation of the 11 agreed international cyber norms and cyber-confidence-building measures in the ASEAN region.

Bart’s also an active member of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), the global platform for cyber capacity building.

Before joining ASPI, Bart headed up the international security and cyber policy training program at the Netherlands’ Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’. Before that, Bart worked with the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs, and Defence and was deployed as a civilian expert to the NATO and EU missions in Afghanistan.