Grading Digital Trust — What If Your Favourite Sites Had a Security Score?
A thought experiment on transparency, trust ratings, and what consumer-facing security metrics might look like if we applied the same logic as nutritional labelling.
Writing
Thought Leadership
Thought Leadership
& the Written Word
Articles, commentary, a forthcoming book on technical pre-sales, and a creative writing practice — across influence, identity, open data, and the occasional fiction.
Forthcoming Book · Course · Workshop
Non-Fiction · Technology & Business
Architecting Influence
Mastering the Art of Technical Pre-Sales
Your technical knowledge is the price of admission. It gets you in the room. But it's not what keeps you there. Architecting Influence presents a four-stage framework for technology professionals who want to become trusted advisors — not just subject matter experts.
The Influence Architecture: Ground (mastery & self-knowledge) · Orient (discovery & empathy) · Elevate (storytelling & presentation) · Anchor (delivering promises & building lasting relationships). Written for pre-sales engineers, solutions architects, and the sales leaders who work alongside them.
Register your interest at architectinginfluence.com → Articles & Commentary
Selected writing on pre-sales, identity & technology
Digital Identity
Interview
Startup Life: Unscripted #40 with Mark Perry
An interview on transitioning from enterprise tech leadership to a sales role at an early-stage startup, the CDR landscape, skills shortages, and maintaining balance in startup life.
Open Banking & CDR
Why the Consumer Data Right Should Replace Screen Scraping
Screen scraping is a legacy hack masquerading as innovation. Australia's Consumer Data Right offers a safer, consent-based alternative — if we commit to it.
Open Banking
In Defense of the Banks and the Australian Consumer Data Right
A contrarian take: the banks aren't the villains of open banking. Complexity, regulatory ambiguity, and poor incentive design are the real obstacles.
Zero Trust
Five Key Insights into Zero Trust and Why It's Important
Zero trust is often misunderstood as a product rather than a philosophy. Here's what the term actually means, and why it matters for every organisation's security posture.
Cybersecurity
Why Businesses Need a Strategy to Combat the Enemy Within
Insider threats remain underestimated. A closer look at how identity-aware security architecture addresses both malicious insiders and accidental data exposure.
Open Banking
Open Banking (and Open APIs) Is the New Wave Prompting Tech Modernisation
Open banking is forcing a rethink of legacy banking architecture. This piece explores the technical and organisational shifts required to participate meaningfully.
Creative Writing
Beyond the industry lens
Mark has maintained a creative writing practice alongside his technology career for decades. The two disciplines feed each other in unexpected ways.
Fiction In progress
Painting with Sound (Work in Progress)
A semi-autobiographical novel set in Melbourne's synthpop and new wave scene of the mid-1980s. Part coming-of-age story, part love letter to a musical moment that deserves to be remembered.
Film & Television Active
Screenplays
Listed on IMDB (nm3775654). Mark writes screenplays across genres, drawing on a creative practice developed alongside his technology career.
IMDB Profile → Blog Active
Creative Writing & Other Musings
An irregular blog covering creative writing, observations, and the things that don't fit anywhere else. Hosted on Substack.
Visit blog → Interviews & Media
Available for comment
Mark is regularly available for media interviews, podcast guest appearances, and expert commentary on digital identity, open banking, CDR, cybersecurity, and related policy areas. He has contributed to business and technology media across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Request a Comment or InterviewTopics for comment
- Technical pre-sales and influence architecture
- Digital identity, authentication, and consent
- Open banking and Consumer Data Right
- Consumer privacy and data breaches