GreenCyber / Community and volunteering
The seats that were given rather than sold.
Two national appointments, both unpaid, both held for years. They are not decoration on a biography and they are not a sales channel.
What Adam actually holds
Australian Computer Society, Cybersecurity Committee
A standing appointment with Australia's professional association for the technology sector. Committee work, national projects, and the unglamorous part of a profession trying to raise its own standard.
CI-ISAC Australia, National Ambassador
The Critical Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Centre. Adam is a national ambassador, and a founding ambassador of both CI-ISAC and Health-ISAC.
Worth stating plainly, because it gets confused: ambassador and board member are different roles, and Adam is not on the CI-ISAC board.
Why a client should care
Critical infrastructure intelligence moves through rooms before it reaches a report. Sitting in those rooms for years is most of what makes the operational technology work credible, and it is the reason a SOCI conversation does not start from a search engine.
The unpaid appointments are where the work comes from. That is an argument for protecting the time they take, not for treating them as what gets cut when the week is tight.
What a seat is not
- It is not a referral arrangement. Nothing is owed to anyone in either organisation, and no introduction carries a fee in either direction.
- It is not a sales channel. If a conversation that starts in one of those rooms becomes commercial, it moves out of the room and is handled as any other engagement.
- It is not an endorsement. Neither body endorses GreenCyber, and this page does not imply that it does.
Conferences and the community that runs them
Adam also gives time to community run conferences, most consistently as master of ceremonies at Realms of Cyber, which he has now hosted three years running. That work belongs to the speaking brand at adamgreen.ai rather than to the consultancy, and it is unpaid or near enough that the distinction rarely matters.
Where this is going
More of it, deliberately, including work aimed at people coming into the profession rather than people already in it. When something is agreed and public, it is named here. Until then it is not, which is the same standard applied to everything else on this site.
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Adam reads every enquiry himself and replies to all of them, including the ones that turn out not to be work.
- Adam reads every enquiry himself. There is no sales sequence behind this form.
- Nothing is resold to you and no vendor introduction is waiting at the other end.
- A first conversation is a conversation, not a scoping call with a proposal attached.