HackaDay 2022: Securing by the crowd - Conference speakers

Alban Kwan is the Regional Director, East Asia for CSC. He has been with CSC’s Digital Brand Services business and affiliated companies since 2009 and leads the team responsible for all key accounts in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan markets. Alban has developed a deep understanding of online brand protection, digital assets management, and cyber security, specifically for the Asia-Pacific region, and he advises top global and local companies. Alban frequently engages with local policy makers and is often invited to speak at conferences, where he shares his invaluable insight on brand protection, security, and local policies affecting businesses.

Head of Solutions Architecture, FSI & Partner, Hong Kong

Amazon Web Services

Dickson Yue is the Head of Solutions Architecture FSI & Partner Hong Kong at Amazon Web Services. He leads his Solution Architecture organisation to foster customer innovation through cloud technology. His team guides customers to build resilient and cost-effective platforms to scale their businesses. Since taking his role in 2019, Dickson has led the team to provide all-round support to customers including deployment, software and services.

Dickson has over 19 years of experience in the information and communication technology industry. Prior to joining AWS, Dickson was responsible for leading a technology team at a digital marketing company, assisting various customers in APAC to execute their digital strategies.

Manager, Systems Engineering, Hong Kong

Palo Alto Networks

Felix Cheng is the Systems Engineering Manager of Palo Alto Networks Hong Kong and Macau. When he joined the company, he focused on helping customers to secure their cloud environments, containers environments and software supply chains.  In his previous roles, he designed and deployed mission critical infrastructure for service providers, airports and casinos.

Cyber Security Evangelist

Check Point

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

In 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.

Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy

PwC Hong Kong
 

Kok Tin Gan 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 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).

Security Specialist, Specialist Team Unit

Microsoft Hong Kong
 

Paul Tsang has more than 20 years of experience specialising in Cybersecurity services and solutions including cloud security, endpoint protection and data loss prevention.

In Microsoft Hong Kong, Paul is responsible for providing Cybersecurity solution advisory on enterprise customers in Hong Kong. Before joining Microsoft, Paul was employed by McAfee for 12 years as the senior manager of presales. He provides advisory and recommendations on threats with reference to frameworks such as MITRE / NIST. Paul also worked in Forcepoint, CA and KPMG as Cybersecurity consultant. He played a key role in the IT security advisory services specialised in technology risk management, technical security assessment and IT audit advisory.

Paul is certified with CCSP, CISSP and CISA licenses. He holds a Master of Science and a bachelor’s degree of Engineering from the University of Hong Kong.

Field CISO, APJ

Cohesity

Victor Keong, HBA (Ivey 1993) CISA, EMBA (Ivey 1999), CISSP, has close to 30 years of Infosec experience around the globe, bringing his rich tapestry of cross-border/cultural/deep technical perspectives from the data center to the cloud, and translating these key challenges to board-understandable priorities.

Victor is Cohesity’s very first APJ’s Field CISO, where he brings both innovative and empathetic perspectives to challenges and stay-awake issues for CISOs in the region. Prior to joining Cohesity, Victor was Cisco Systems’ and Checkmarx’s inaugural Senior CISO Advisor for Asia Pacific, Japan and China.

Chief Inspector, Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau

Hong Kong Police Force  

Chief Inspector Lester has over 10 years’ experience in cybercrime investigation, cybersecurity advisory and IT training. Lester is the project-in-charge of the CyberDefender Campaign, and actively promotes digital literacy across different sectors in the community.

Deputy Head

Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT)

Otto has over 20 years of working experience in Information Security and Cyber Security, with focus on Cloud Security, Data Protection & Privacy, and Incident Response in the last few years. He has extensive experience in Financial Services Industry to define global policy and standard, review the compliance, be the representative in Asia to handle security incident response from APAC countries, provide security & awareness, and conduct on-site compliance reviews in various offices in APAC.

Deputy Government Chief Information Officer

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Mr Wong assists and deputises the Government Chief Information Officer in formulating and overseeing strategies and initiatives to facilitate the development of ICT and smart city in Hong Kong, and the development of local IT industry including support for startups and SMEs and collaboration with the Mainland and overseas, as well as to foster IT infrastructure development (such as Internet, public Wi-Fi and data centre services) in Hong Kong and draw up programmes and initiatives on digital inclusion and wider public adoption of ICT.

Specialist Solutions Engineer

NetApp

Alex Ma is an IT Specialist with over 10 years of experience in IT infrastructure solutions design and project implementation. He is an expert in a wide variety of data management and hybrid cloud. Alex also has consultant management experiences for over three years, and manages a regional team across Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong to support global business including APAC and Europe.

Principal Managing Consultant Data Protection Solutions

Entrust

Ian Christofis is a specialist in information security and personal data privacy. He is Principal Managing Consultant with Entrust, driving consulting and professional services in APAC. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Founding Board Member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hong Kong & Macau Chapter, and a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

Legislative Council Member

Technology & Innovation Constituency   

Duncan has committed to technology and innovation development for nearly 20 years. He is not only a tech entrepreneur but also a veteran investor, as well as an influential advocator of local technology and innovation policies. He often speaks at forums and conferences to promote start-up culture and helps young entrepreneurs with workshops and mentorship.

Duncan is the President of Hong Kong Information Technology Joint Council (HKITJC) and the Convenor of Innovate for Future, a think tank representing some of the leading technology start-ups in Hong Kong. He is also a Non-official Member of Digital Economy Development Committee, the Chairman of HKTDC Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Services Advisory Committee, the Chairman of Information Technology Services Committee of Hospital Authority, the Chairman of Advisory Committee of Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Member of Advisory Committee of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

IT Vice President

HKT

Eric is an infrastructure professional with success track records in IT transformation to improve KPI and drive innovation for enterprise. He specialises in providing security operation as a service to various enterprises in Hong Kong. Eric is experienced in fighting with multiple advanced persistent threat groups, rapid review and recommend enterprises to recover from ransomware attack.

Co-founder & CEO

Reimagine Cyberbay Limited

Felix co-founded PwC’s Dark Lab, HackaDay and Ethical Hack Bot. He is also an ex-PwC Partner who started his career as an ethical hacker with 10 years of extensive consultation experience. He developed real life attack simulation methodology and helped enterprises to transform on their cyber journeys. Felix also successfully helped his enterprises to transform their cyber defence strategies and enhance their operational defence tactics.

Head of IT Risk and Security

Cathay Pacific Airways

Naresh is responsible for IT Risk and Security at Cathay Pacific Airways where he heads Security Operations, Governance, Controls, Security Assurances and IT Risks. He provides necessary policies and direction to establish right security tools, defenses, processes and practices for CPA and Subsidiaries. He offers leadership and vision to enhance and sustain the security posture and maturity.

In his position he also works closely with data privacy team, compliance and audit functions for regular review of compliance posture and regulatory updates. Naresh is strong advocate of the shift left and security by design practices that promotes security culture at many levels.