Speakers

Steven Sim has worked for more than 25 years in the cybersecurity field with large end-user enterprises and critical infrastructures, undertaken global CISO role, driven award-winning CSO50 security governance and management initiatives and headed incident response, security architecture, technology, awareness and operations at local, regional and global levels. He leads cybersecurity across large MNC, heading 8 direct reports at Group Cybersecurity Department as well as indirect reports across regional offices and local business units in 42 countries. He oversees both IT and OT Security Governance, Global Cybersecurity Technology Management and Incident Response as well as Cyber Security Masterplan Office. He also leads the Group IT Security Centre of Expertise and Technology Scanning and Cybersecurity Practice Forum to franchise best practices to business units, driven cyber initiatives, developed standards, managed threats, identified 0day vulnerabilities and promoted awareness. Always keen to give back to the community, he also volunteers at the ISACA Singapore Chapter (which won ISACA Global Outstanding Chapter Achievement in 2022) as the President (from 2021 to 2022) and OT-ISAC (since 2021), the second key thrust of the SG's OT Cybersecurity Masterplan 2019, as Chair Executive Committee, as well as member of Geneva Dialogue Technical Community, and holds Masters in Computing, CCISO, CGEIT, CRISC, CISM, CISA, CDPSE, CISSP as well as technical certifications GICSP, GREM, GCIH and GPPA. He is an APMG-accredited trainer for ISACA's core certifications CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT. He is member of both ISACA’s Information Security Advisory Group and Emerging Trends Working Group. He regularly shares his thoughts on cyber risk and security, lectures on an adjunct basis at NUS Institute of System Sciences on Enterprise Security Architecture, and at other institutes of higher learning, speaks and panels at keynotes of both international and local conferences and published several articles. He is also Topic Leader of the Governance Forum at ISACA. He is recognised with a number of awards including #1 CSO in IDG’s CSO30 ASEAN Awards (2021), CSO50 Program, ISACA Chapter Achievement, ISACA Outstanding Chapter Leader, Tech Talent Builder, Skillsfuture Fellow, Global Cyber Security Thought Leaders (IFSEC), Global Cybersecurity Leader, Top 10 Cyber Security Influencers, Top 10 CISOs of the year, Top 29 Highly Influential CISOs, Top 100 Global CISOs, Professional (Leaders) Finalist in Singapore’s Cybersecurity Awards 2018, etc