JMacTech is the public home of John Mackenzie's work across AI, cybersecurity, digital systems, training, research, apps, and applied product development.
This is where visible work, accumulated capability, practical systems, and build activity are documented openly and continuously — creating a public record of what is being built, studied, tested, written, taught, and shipped.
Status
Apps
Active development
Training
ISO AI · ISO 27001 · ISO 42000 · Cyber · Business
Writing
Articles, notes & build logs
Research
Papers, methods & emerging ideas
Community
10,000+ LinkedIn professional connections
Open process. Documented progress. Build logs, notes, and artefacts that show how the work develops in public.
Frameworks, models, and perspectives designed to stand up to scrutiny in complex AI, cyber, business, and digital environments.
Apps, systems, training, research, and resources built to solve real problems and create usable capability.
Overview
A structured view of the active projects, methods, research, training, and public notes behind JMacTech.
Digital systems and tools being built across AI, cyber, work, intelligence, and growth.
OpenStructured thinking models, frameworks, and decision systems behind the work.
OpenIndependent research papers, controlled public summaries, and synthesis work across cyber risk, governance failure, defensibility, and assurance.
OpenCapability-building content across AI, cybersecurity, governance, business, IT, ISO 27001, and ISO 42000.
OpenProgress updates, decisions, changes, lessons, shipped work, and public notes.
OpenIn Progress
Active projects, systems, and bodies of work currently being developed.
AI-informed traffic analysis, content signal tracking, and digital growth intelligence.
Active BuildApp planning, architecture, design patterns, and implementation templates.
In DevelopmentAI agent interface, monitoring, orchestration, and oversight concepts.
ConceptPublic data, public trust, signal detection, and external intelligence monitoring.
PrototypePersonal and organisational cybersecurity tools, controls, and capability systems.
Active BuildA digital card and reflection system for insight, learning, strategy, and decision support.
ConceptPersonal knowledge, work tracking, portfolio, and execution operating system.
In DevelopmentEntity monitoring, risk intelligence, cyber defensibility, and public exposure awareness.
Major ProjectEvidence
Selected evidence of capability across cybersecurity, AI, training, business, research, product development, and long-term personal output.
Governance, risk, compliance, security uplift, cyber strategy, critical infrastructure, identity, privacy, data, and resilience work — across 14 billion-dollar enterprises, including 10 ASX-listed organisations.
ExploreApplied AI, digital systems, app development, workflow design, technical thinking, and practical implementation.
ExploreGlobally accredited to train ISO 27001 and ISO 42000. JMac Learning delivers ISO 27001 and ISO 42000 certificate training for professionals and organisations.
VisitAustralian Government certified and qualified trainer across business, artificial intelligence, information technology, and cybersecurity.
ExploreOriginal research, longform analysis, papers, technical notes, books, and public thinking.
ExploreApps, websites, systems, methods, training assets, public tools, and implementation-oriented digital products.
ExploreLong-term learning, qualifications, endurance sport, creative output, business building, public work, and consistent execution.
ExploreCapability
Practical capability development and standards-based training for AI systems, governance, risk management, cybersecurity, and responsible implementation.
JMacTech connects AI, cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, business systems, and standards-based thinking. Through JMac Learning, John Mackenzie can deliver ISO 27001 and ISO 42000 certificate training supported by global accreditation to train both standards.
Education Arm
Standards-aligned training across AI, cybersecurity, business, information technology, ISO 27001, and ISO 42000.
JMac Learning is the training and capability development arm connected to the JMacTech ecosystem. It translates John Mackenzie's experience across cybersecurity, AI, business, governance, risk, compliance, and digital systems into practical learning programs.
Information security management certificate training for professionals and organisations seeking structured understanding of ISO 27001, risk, controls, governance, and implementation.
AI management certificate training for professionals and organisations seeking structured understanding of responsible AI, AI governance, risk, accountability, and management system requirements.
Australian Government certified and qualified training capability across business, artificial intelligence, information technology, and cybersecurity.
Training designed to connect standards, business reality, cyber risk, AI adoption, and implementation challenges.
Thinking Layer
JMacTech is built from a deeper body of work across cyber, AI, risk, systems thinking, professional development, and digital transformation.
Research Papers
A controlled preview of John Mackenzie’s independent research into organisational cyber risk, governance failure, assurance weakness, defensibility, cyber risk mathematics, and the causal pathways that turn small weaknesses into material cyber harm.
Paper 01
Cyber Cube Theory reframes serious cyber incidents as organisational governance failures, not just technical failures. It examines how board oversight, executive management, control reality, assurance quality, privacy, AI, suppliers, and evidence combine to shape cyber defensibility.
Paper 02
Advocatus introduces a board-level challenge architecture for cyber defensibility. It examines how high-consequence cyber claims should be tested through structured dissent, proportional proof, evidence quality, and traceable governance decisions.
Paper 03
Black Snow–Informed Internal Audit examines why compliant organisations still fail. It reframes internal audit around catastrophic cyber risk, weak signals, sequencing, culture, resource allocation, assurance distortion, and structural proximity to severe cyber harm.
Paper 04
The Cyber Butterfly Effect explains how small tolerated weaknesses can move through an organisation’s cyber DNA and eventually create disproportionate harm. It focuses on micro-causation, hidden weakness, supplier opacity, behavioural adaptation, and assurance failure.
Paper 05
Sequence Matters argues that the order of cyber interventions changes the risk outcome. It examines how controls act on technical, behavioural, and symbolic organisational states, making cybersecurity sequencing a first-class governance variable.
Paper 06
A General Theory of Organisational Cyber Risk reframes cyber risk as a survivability problem in a tail-dominant environment. It challenges expected-loss thinking, compliance proxies, averaging, and weak board-level assumptions about cyber defensibility.
The research summaries on this page are intentionally limited. They are designed to show the direction, substance, and relevance of the work without publishing full intellectual property, detailed models, equations, proprietary methods, or unpublished research materials.
Operating models and frameworks for complex AI, cyber, and digital systems.
ExploreSix controlled public summaries of John Mackenzie’s independent research papers across cyber risk, governance failure, assurance weakness, and defensibility.
ExploreLongform writing and published perspectives on systems, work, and digital change.
ExploreObservations, ideas, and ongoing thoughts captured in public.
ExplorePublic Record
A public record of progress, decisions, changes, lessons, blockers, shipped work, and emerging thinking across the JMacTech ecosystem.
What's shipping, what's blocked, what's next.
What worked, what didn't, and why.
Observations and emerging thinking shared as it develops.
Live tests, prototypes, and exploratory builds.
Released apps, content, and capability.
The Person Behind The Work
A selected record of personal, professional, creative, athletic, learning, training, and business milestones behind the work.
Formal and professional training across cyber, AI, governance, business, IT, ISO standards, and training.
Accredited to train ISO 27001 and ISO 42000.
Former Entrepreneurs' Programme Business Advisor (2015–2017).
Multiple Victorian Country State titles across marathon and cycling.
Document the work. Share the process. Build systems that create value and stand the test of time.
