Cyber Security: Staying Connected and Protected for Business Resilience

Dalbir Singh

Regional Lead – Smart Cities,Cisco ASEAN

Dalbir is an Entrepreneurial Technologist with years of proven strength in consultancy, strategy, innovation and technology for digital transformation in various verticals such as Government, Real Estate, Education, BFSI and Service Provider. Dalbir started off with a strong engineering background in Network and Security and with his continuous drive for growth and excellence, he evolved into being a trusted advisor to many organizations when it comes to digital transformation. His unique gift in understanding both business and technology and bridging the gap between the two has benefited many. Dalbir is also often called to speak in conferences and to conduct trainings on Digital Transformation, Smart Cities, Big Data, Cyber Security and Leadership.

Krishna Rajagopal

CEO, AKATI Sekurity

Krishna is a recognized expert in the IT industry focusing on security, forensics and training. He has been involved in the Information Technology field for close to two decades after graduating in the field of Internet Technology from Staffordshire University, UK. His particular passion is in Defence in Depth framework strategy formulation for corporates that encompasses areas such as Penetration Testing, Computer Forensics, SIEM, and DLP. Krishna has contributed extensively in helping numerous Governments and Banks to face the Information Technology age. He has consulted and advised numerous banks such as the Centrale Bank Van Aruba when they were about to move into the Online Banking scene. Thus the standards and procedures he has set for them are being used by all banks in Aruba today.

He was instrumental in designing, planning and organizing the training needs of the Malaysian Civil Service on the Generic Office Environment (GOE − Electronic Government) Project and the Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) Project of the Malaysian government. He has been certified through EC − Council specializing in Project Management and Customer Relationship Management. He holds a Certified E−Business Associate (CEA), Certified E−Business Professional (CEP) accreditation, Certified E−Business Consultant (CEC) accreditation, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) accreditation, and the Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) accreditation.

Krishna, as he is fondly known as, holds more than 50 various professional certifications and is recognized internationally as one of the best in the industry for IT Forensics / Computer Security. His professional certification includes Prince2 Certified Practitioner, CEH, CHFI, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and numerous others. To date he holds the record of being the youngest MCSE in the country and also holds the record for scoring a perfect 1000 marks on the final exam − Networking Essentials. Besides certification from Microsoft, he has also certifications from EC−Council, Adobe, Cisco, Apple, Checkpoint, and Sun in various areas and field. All of the above has equipped him with substantial knowledge and expertise to excel in the training field where his training experience ranges from training corporate executives for Microsoft Certification, Programming Languages, Networking systems, application programs, web designing to E-commerce certification. Krishna has extensive hands-on technical experience, possessing a vast range of industry and specific certifications that demonstrate high technical proficiency and in-depth knowledge.

He has progressively extended his interests to encompass a wide array of organizational, economic and legal aspects of IT. His extremely broad industry experience an business acumen is instrumental in providing professional consulting services to the public and private corporations, government departments at all levels of organizational structure. Industry leaders, universities and government departments often seek Krishna’s expertise to give presentations on information security, infrastructure protection and electronic privacy.

Kenneth Ho Wee Leong

Regional Head IT Security, Maybank Investment Bank Berhad

Kenneth is the Regional Head IT Security with Maybank Investment Bank Berhad. He has over 17 years of IT experience in retailing, blue chip MNC,
investment banking and professional services. He oversees all activities related to IT Security to Maybank Kim Eng countries, ensuring that all policies, standards
and procedures are in line with internal and external regulatory requirements. In addition to this, Kenneth is also responsible to implement IT Security initiatives
across the Maybank Kim Eng Group.

Prior to this, Kenneth travelled intensely abroad to perform IT Audit with Jardine Matheson Group of companies which includes IT General Controls, IT Project review, Post Implementation review, Network and Infrastructure Security, Application Controls, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity and Control Self-Assessment. Kenneth had conducted workshops and conference organised by ISACA Malaysia Chapter on virtualisation, cloud computing and cybersecurity.

Mohamed Anwer Mohamed Yusoff

Head, Industry and Business Development, CyberSecurity Malaysia

Mohamed Anwer Mohamed Yusoff graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida and did post graduate studies at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in the area of artificial intelligence in aircraft design. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the Malaysian ICT industry, and his skill-sets encompass Supply Chain Management, Business Process Re-engineering, and in the last 5 years in the area of information security.

He is currently the Head of Industry and Business Development at Cyber Security Malaysia and passionately believes that the cornerstone of cyberspace security is and will remain a public-private partnership and only by acting together can we build a more secure future in cyberspace.