HackaDay 2020: Cybersecurity Conference

Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy

PwC Hong Kong
 

Kok Tin is a partner at PwC in the Risk Assurance practice with over 12 years of experience in IT governance, cyber security strategy and framework, cyber security governance, security management, IT risk, technology architecture and ethical hacking.

Kok Tin is extremely well-versed in developing a holistic cyber security strategy, banking technology risk management guidelines and technical review tools. He is also a co-author of many technology risk management guidelines issued by the financial regulators in Asia.

Kok Tin is a Certified Chartered Account (CCA), Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy

PwC Hong Kong
 

Felix is a Partner in PwC’s Risk Assurance Cybersecurity and Privacy practice with 10 years of extensive experience. He started his career as an ethical hacker and personally committed to help companies in Hong Kong to improve their security postures and deal with cyber attacks more efficiently. Given the nature of cybersecurity an area that is very difficult to justify Return on Investment, Felix developed real life attack simulation methodology and tools with PwC Hong Kong and helped his clients to transform on their cyber journeys.

Felix’s key areas of expertise and experience include IT governance, IT security framework, application and data security, IT risk, security management, technology architecture and ethical hacking focusing on high security network, web and mobile applications.

Senior Vice President, Group Risk Management & Compliance

PCCW Limited

Benedict Cheng has joined PCCW since January 2019 and is the Head of Group Risk Management and Compliance where he takes on the leadership role in overseeing and driving the development as well as the implementation of enterprise risk management framework focusing particularly on the governance and best practices of cybersecurity, data protection, financial crime compliance and export/import trade compliance across all group companies and affiliated subsidiaries. Mr. Cheng is also appointed as the Data Privacy Officer for PCCW and the Money Laundering Reporting Officer for HKT Financial Services.
 

Prior to joining PCCW, Mr. Cheng was actively involved in providing consultancy and advisory services pertaining to fintech in areas such as risk management incorporating learning capabilities, eKYC/digital onboarding and AI based post-transaction surveillance. Mr. Cheng also ran his own management consultant practices where he had helped two startup firms setting up their innovation labs in Hong Kong. Mr. Cheng also contributed a number of well-known articles on topics including RMB internationalisation, managing conduct risk, and best practices in BCBS 239 compliance.

Chief Information Security Officer

Hong Kong Jockey Club

Dirk has over 28 years of Information Security experience starting his career in Melbourne, Australia with Fujitsu. He began working with federal government and defence along with retail, local and state government industries. He has worked in global cyber security teams across various financial services organisations including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank, AIG, and UBS. Dirk joined the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Technology Risk in 2019 and is driving a transformation and move to automate cyber security capabilities. Prior to joining the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Dirk worked as the Global Head of Cyber Security for Australia’s largest bank, and helped build one of the first digital banks in South Africa, Tyme Digital. He is a transformation leader of cyber security and risk methodologies with a strong focus on digital banking, innovation and development of secure cloud services for financial services, government, and critical infrastructure services.
 

Dirk studied Computer Science & Technology at La Trobe University, and has numerous industry qualifications. He was appointed Chair of Cyber Committee for Fintech Association Hong Kong, 2018 and continues to Chair the Cyber and Cloud Committees to the present day.

Head of Cybersecurity

Block.one
 

Florian-Alexandre Bielak is the Head of CyberSecurity at Block.one, an open-source software publisher providing end-to-end solutions to bring businesses onto the blockchain. Prior to joining Block.one, Florian-Alexandre held numerous leadership roles in APAC including Technology Risk Management at BlackRock and Operational Risk at Societe Generale. With over 15 years of experience covering both the first line and second line of defence, Florian-Alexandre regularly participates in security conferences sharing his passion for innovative and results driven security programmes.

Senior Manager, Risk and Cybersecurity

Airport Authority Hong Kong
 

Joyce Ngo serves as the Head of Risk and Cybersecurity team of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK). She oversees IT risk and cybersecurity management of the corporate information, numerous mission critical systems and IT/OT infrastructure deployed at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), the World’s No. 1 cargo airport which facilitates more than 71 million of passengers annually. Joyce leads a team of security professions and constantly liaises with technology partners to build a robust and risk-adaptive security infrastructure, thereby supporting HKIA’s target to become a cyber resilient airport. Prior to joining AAHK, Joyce held multiple leading roles in IT audit and security consultancy in the private sector.

Chief Risk Officer

Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited
 

Maverick is currently Chief Risk Officer of Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL). He drives the strategic direction and provides oversight of the company’s enterprise risk management and cyber resilience. He has extensive experience in risk management, regulatory compliance, internal controls, information security and data privacy. Prior to taking up this role, he was the Head of Internal Audit of HKICL. He also held managerial positions in information risk management team of a global bank and risk advisory team of a big four professional firm.

Head of IT Risk and Security

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited

Results-driven IT leader with 22 years of proven track record in leading high performance teams to deliver strategic programs in Infrastructure, applications & IT security, service improvement and operational excellence initiatives to meet company’s goals.
 

After 13 years of stint in Singapore where he worked with various companies ranging from FMCG, IT Blue Chips, Contact Center and Global IT Professional Services, Naresh moved to Hong Kong in 2013 and joined Cathay Pacific Airways as Programme Manager spearheading a large transition programme.

In Oct 2018, Naresh assumed the position of Head of IT Risk and Security at Cathay Pacific Airways. In this capacity Naresh restructured the IT Risk and Security organisation in CPA to meet the growing challenges in cyber security. He spearheaded setup of MSSP and enhanced SOC SOPs to tackle constant threats and improved the Security Governance, Security Assessment Framework, IT Risk management, and Security awareness and introduced new technologies to enhance its security landscape and maturity.
 

Naresh is well versed with number of security technologies and related solutions and recently oversaw the PCIDSS compliance of CPAs various CDEs.

Chief Information Security Officer, Risk Management Department

Fusion Bank Limited

Patrick Liu has more than 20 years of IT and Security experience including security operation, risk and control and IT audit within top tier financial institutions. As an experience security practitioner, Patrick has been responsible for performing and managing a wide range of security consulting, risk and threat assessment, security training, cyber crisis management planning program. Patrick is currently the CISO of Fusion Bank. He was awarded the Hong Kong Cyber Security Professionals Awards in 2017 and ISC2 ISLA Asia-Pacific Honoree Senior Information Security Professional category 2018 in recognition of his commitment in the cyber security field.
 

Patrick Liu acquired several professional certifications including CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, CIA and ABCP.

Head of Group Cybersecurity

Jardine Matheson Limited
 

Raju is responsible for keeping the Group’s businesses secure by helping them to understand evolving cyber threats that could affect them today or in future, and to continually enhance the protection of their assets and operations as they transform into Digital businesses.
 

He’s worked on the leading edge of IT in a variety of industries including Hospitality, Online payments, Banking, Retail, Transportation, and Government. Security has been a major focus throughout due to the need to protect the financial and information assets of the businesses and their VIP customers.
 

Raju holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of London and is a member of the IEEE.

Cybersecurity Team Head

Welab Bank

Samuel Ng graduated with a Master’s degree in Information Assurance from the National Technology University of Malaysia (UTM), and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the National Defense University of Malaysia (NDUM).
  

Samuel joined Royal Malaysian Army in 2004 and subsequently commissioned as an Army officer serving Royal Signals Corps (Radio Communications and ICT) with various appointments, from Radio Troop Commander, 2nd in Command of a Signal Squadron to Aide De Camp (Special Officer) of The Director General of Royal Signals Regiment of the Malaysian Army. He was frequently invited as speakers on cybersecurity topics among the Armed Forces and Universities. Samuel holds multiple industry recognised certifications including CREST, Offensive Security and ISC(2).
  

Upon his retirement from the army, Samuel continued to pursue his passion in cybersecurity and held various positions including lecturer, Red Team & Penetration tester and IT Security auditor. He is currently heading the cybersecurity department of Welab Bank in Hong Kong.

CISO
Noble Group
 

Shane is the Group Chief Information Security Officer with Noble Group based out of Hong Kong. Noble has undergone several years of rapid change from being a leading commodities player to now focusing on the APAC domestic market, this corporate downsizing has presented several challenges in developing his security program with a shrinking corporate budget and footprint while addressing cyber risk and keeping technology current.  Prior to this he performed several key roles within the Australian Federal Government, including the Department of Defence’s appointed Information Systems Security Officer and Department of Climate Change’s Information Technology Security Advisor.

With over 20 year’s experience in Government and Private industry he has a lot to share and loves building knowledge and collaborating within industry. He acknowledges that the Cyber industry has so many great solutions and appliances, yet a BEC and similar attacks work because of poor cyber hygiene, lack of training and companies not appropriately performing risk assessments to identify their weaknesses before the Cyber Criminals do.    Shane holds a Masters of Policing, Intelligence and Counterterrorism from Macquarie University.

Group Manager, Information Security & Risk Management

Swire Coca-Cola Ltd.

Wilson Leung has more than 25 years of information technology and security experience. During the past years, he leads the team to manage information security and risk management such as building Security Operating Center, security monitoring and incident response, security risk assessment, etc. Wilson masters the comprehensive solution integration skill and complicated security services knowledge, and he has much experience on consulting and in-house operation. Wilson is leading two teams of information security professionals to support business globally.

Senior Partner Engagement Manager

Huawei Cloud Hong Kong
 

Angel Wong is a Senior Partner Engagement Manager at Huawei Cloud. She dedicates herself as an evangelist of Huawei Cloud and aims to empower Huawei Cloud Ecosystem in Hong Kong. Over the past years, Angel has rolled out various go-to-marketing activities to promote cloud solution and establish partnership.

Solution Architect

Nutanix Hong Kong
 

Fion Yip is a Solution Architect at Nutanix Hong Kong. Fion has over 18 years of experience in project management and IT architecture design for enterprise customers from finance and banking, transportation and logistics and other industries in Hong Kong and Macau. In her role, Fion provides design, advice and guidance to support large scale and multi-platform deployment as well as leadership & mentorship to consultants so as to conduct service offering, validate & deliver technical solution including data centre modernisation, managed service, disaster recovery strategy and Cloud solutions.

Principal Managing Consultant

Entrust

Ian Christofis is the Principal Managing Consultant at Entrust. He is a specialist in information security, including cryptographic security, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and identity & access management. He combines a strong understanding of the commercial and strategic business issues with a detailed knowledge of the technology. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a founding board member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hong Kong & Macau Chapter, sits on the Editorial Board of the Professional Information Security Association (PISA) Journal, and is a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

Senior Security Consultant

Synopsys

Mr. John Chan graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Computer Engineering.
 

In his previous roles, John has worked in a Hong Kong listed consulting firm providing professional security consulting services for Hong Kong FSI and large enterprises.
  

John has multiple years of experience selling security solutions, managed security services and security audit and assessment service for customer in enterprise and public sector.

Cyber Security Evangelist, North Asia

Check Point Software Technologies
 

Kev Hau is the Head of Security Engineering, North Asia at Check Point Software Technologies and the Cyber Security Evangelist, a member of the CTO office. Kev has over 10 years of experience in cyber security industry.

At Check Point, he works closely with all the Check Point partners and customers through his team of security experts by providing consultation and advice on how to deal with cyber threats. He is also the leadership point of contact between partners, strategic customers and channels, as well as Check Point’s product research and development team.

Kev holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brunel University.

Senior Security Consultant

Palo Alto Networks
 

Linus is an experienced security Consultant focused on making cybersecurity best practices and helping customers' network security transformation journey from legacy approach to a true Zero-Trust architecture. He has over 10 years of security implementation experience in the IT security industry, he acts as a trusted advisor to Hong Kong’ most largest enterprise organisations by helping them improve their security postures and align security strategically with business initiatives.    
 

He holds a Master of Science in Information Engineering from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

CEO

Senhasegura

Scharra is an electrical engineer graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP) with a master's degree, also from USP, in Information Security and Artificial Intelligence for pattern recognition in corporate environments using artificial neural networks.
 

With a series of articles and published works, he’s been an entrepreneur for twenty years, as the founder of three tech companies. Senhasegura is one of the solutions developed by the first of its companies, MT4 Technology, currently offered in more than 40 countries.
   

Recently Senhasegura was placed by Gartner as a Challenger technology in the 2020 Magic Quadrant report for PAM. His companies have received several renowned recognitions, such as the ISC² Annual Americas Information Security Leadership.

VP of Global Marketing

SCADAfence

Michael brings 14 years of marketing creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to SCADAfence. Before joining the team, Michael was the Director of Marketing at TrapX Security, where he was famous for thought leadership and for turning a small, declining startup into a successful, profitable world-leading vendor in their vertical. Prior to that, Michael was the VP of Marketing at AMC and rebuilt their entire marketing architecture, bringing in strong revenue figures that the firm hasn't seen in decades. Michael studied at Harvard Business School, at Bar Ilan University for his MBA & Lander College for his BS degrees in Marketing and Business Management.

Senior Partner Development Manager

Microsoft Hong Kong
 

Steven serves as Senior Partner Development Manager in Microsoft Hong Kong. Steven has more than 12 years of experiences in Cloud Solutions, Modern Workplace and Information Security including solution selling and consultancy. Prior to his current position, he was responsible for Modern Work business for Financial, Security Institutions and Public Sector. Steven holds Bachelor Degree in Business Administration (Information Systems) and Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Software Engineering) from the University of Hong Kong.

Global Solutions Engineer

Sophos

Wana Tun has more than 13 years of experience in IT Security and involved in successful delivery of projects across public sectors and enterprise accounts in the area of network security, security consultancy and assessment. Diverse experience working in high security end-user and vendor environment in APJ region.

Prior to Sophos, Wana worked as a Principal Consultant at WatchGuard Technologies where he managed and led network security projects. Earlier in his career, he was at Singapore Technologies as a Test engineer where he created processes for product testing and quality assurance for SCADA system.

Co-Owner & Associate Director – Information Security

HKBN Enterprise Solutions Limited
 

For over 15 years, Wilson Tang has been a remarkable leader in the Information Security field. Joined HKBN in 2019, he now leads a team of information security experts aiming to protect HKBN against cyber threats, and strive for performance excellence in cybersecurity. Wilson believes strongly to creating greater value in information system for users. He reckons that “controls” should bring “purpose” to users, otherwise, users may simply ignore or bypass it.

Wilson built solid experience in compliance, SOC and providing solutions to protect enterprise security whilst serving at the consulting firm and system integrator prior to joining HKBN. He acquired vast experience in helping customer to fulfill compliance needs, like PCI DSS, and protect customer information assets at the same time.

Commercial Team Lead

Darktrace
 

Yvette Lau is the Commercial Team Lead at Darktrace. Based in Hong Kong, Yvette brings growth to the company by working closely with new and existing clients to address their unique cyber security challenges using cyber AI. Prior to joining Darktrace, Yvette held roles in project management and spearheaded projects related to system testing and software application.