Summary
Marcus Berg is an educator-turned-cybersecurity professional with 11 years of experience bridging classroom pedagogy and rigorous security practice across government and consulting roles. He has led IT security for a major Defence capability, guided clients through ISM/ISO/Essential Eight compliance, and translated complex technical risk into actionable, teachable strategies. Now teaching with the Queensland Department of Education, Marcus combines curriculum design and student-centred assessment with hands-on security consulting experience to build organisational resilience and workforce capability. He is skilled at bottom-up analysis—understanding people, processes and systems—to deliver pragmatic controls and training that stick. Quietly resourceful, Marcus has repeatedly stepped into newly created roles and volunteer leadership positions to stabilise change and drive durable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Computer Science, Computing, Computer Science at La Trobe University