Cyber Security Unlocked

Nan Maguire has been in the industry for over 14 years starting in the UK with Royal Bank of Scotland followed by tenures in big four consulting in the UK and in Singapore for KPMG and PwC. She is now the Regional Head of Information Security Office for Aberdeen Standard Investments. She was also recently voted in the top 20 women in cybersecurity for Singapore.

Jim Fitzsimmons has been in the industry for 30 years starting in the US before working in China, Vietnam, and now Singapore, where he is the Director for Consulting for Asia Pacific for Control Risks. Jim is an established consultant, avid security problem solver, and has unique insight into the Asia market.

Gene Yu is Co-Founder and CEO of Blackpanda Group. A computer science honor graduate from West Point, Gene previously served in the U.S. Army Special Forces and has authored three books. Gene has served in Asia across military and private sectors – as an equity swaps trader at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong and with Palantir Technologies’ Asia business development team in Singapore.

​Gene is currently best-known for leading one of the fastest recorded recoveries of a family friend, kidnapped in eastern Malaysia by Filipino Abu Sayyaf terrorists in late 2013.

Ravi Ramaiah has spent most of his career in the security services/MSSP and customer-facing roles with McAfee, NTT, and Centurylink. He is now the Head of Customer Success for Asia Pacific for Securonix where he recently joined during the circuit breaker.

Jerome Walter has been operating in Security leadership roles for over 12 years firstly with Natixis in Hong Kong and Japan before taking a role with Prudential as Head of Security Architecture. Jerome now operates in a client-facing role as a Director for Security Modernisation providing advisory services for complex digital transformations.

Christian Karam is currently the Global Head of Threat Intelligence and APAC CISOC for UBS. Christian started at a very young age and has since had a meteoric rise in the cybersecurity industry already at a very advanced stage in his career at such a young age. In this discussion, I talked through Christian’s career, how he got to where he is today, and how he keeps himself up to date with the latest threats we face today.

Magda Chelly is a cyber entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and influencer. She set up Cyber Responsible in 2016 and has since acquired another company in 2020. Magda is also an advisory board member for Blackhat Executive Summit 2020, an RSA ambassador for Asia Pacific, where she speaks, and volunteers at numerous non-profit focus groups for cyber and women in cyber with her WoSEC Singapore group.

Lloyd Brown is a cyber threat intelligence officer with FireEye. Lloyd got his break in cyber security in 2004 and served with the US government for 9 years before moving to the private sector. Lloyd shares his journey and challenges he faced when moving to the private sector and what he would have done differently.

My guest for episode 1 is Dr. Madan Oberoi who is a three star General in India Police Service with 27 years of policing experience. Dr. Oberoi has worked as the Director General for Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C), as well as Adviser (Cyber) to Ministry of Home Affairs in Government of India. He has also earlier worked as Director Cybercrime with INTERPOL and prior to that had 2 deployments with the UN firstly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and then in Kosovo. He is a Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security and has a PhD in eCommerce and Cyber crime. I had a great discussion about his career but also how the cyber crime landscape has changed over the years and in the last 3-4 months