CSO Executive Sessions: ASEAN
TeknologiIn this weekly series, our editors interview top chief information security officers throughout the ASEAN region to discuss current security threats, critical IT projects, security skills and careers, and much more.
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- CSO Executive Sessions: Leading the Charge on Cyber Agility for Southeast Asia’s Digital Future (00:20:39)
As Editorial Director of CSO ASEAN, I had the privilege of interviewing Andrew Bennett, Chief Technology Officer of BT Group, whose wealth of experience offers timely and pragmatic insights for our audience across Southeast Asia’s cybersecurity community. Andrew shared the lessons learned from his career journey, highlighting the importance of self-leadership, adaptability, and looking beyond one’s comfort zone to create business impact in digitally driven environments. His perspective underscores the need to embed cybersecurity at the heart of transformation, ensuring that security is not simply layered on, but integrated from the outset to enable business agility and resilience. In our discussion, Andrew was candid about the evolving complexity of threats, from ransomware to the next wave of AI-driven attacks and offered actionable guidance on moving away from fragmented, compliance-driven practices towards holistic risk management. He advocated for industry collaboration, talent cultivation, and robust enterprise architecture as foundational to securing distributed, hybrid, and cloud-enabled operations. As we concluded, Andrew urged leaders to measure cyber investments by business value, champion a culture of continuous improvement, and embrace collective intelligence to anticipate the unknown to thrive in Southeast Asia’s dynamic and increasingly digital future.
- CSO Executive Sessions: Navigating the Cyber Battleground, Strengthening Southeast Asia’s Digital Defense (00:41:14)
In this CSO ASEAN Executive Session, Editorial Director Estelle Quek speaks with Michael Montoya, Chief Operating Officer at BlueVoyant, to unpack the evolving cybersecurity landscape in Southeast Asia. With over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity leadership. Montoya offers a grounded perspective on how organizations in the region can build resilience amid rising threat sophistication, regulatory fragmentation, and persistent talent shortages. Montoya highlights the growing impact of ransomware, state-sponsored attacks, and third-party breaches, noting that 81% of organizations surveyed experienced vendor-related incidents in the past year. He emphasizes the importance of adopting a Zero Trust architecture, continuous third-party risk monitoring, and aligning cybersecurity strategies with global standards such as NIST and ISO 27001 to navigate ASEAN’s diverse regulatory environment. The conversation also explores how AI and machine learning are reshaping both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Montoya underscores the need for organizations to combine AI-driven threat detection with human expertise to stay ahead of adversaries leveraging generative AI for phishing, impersonation, and deepfake attacks. For organizations operating under budget constraints, Montoya recommends framing cybersecurity investments in terms of cost avoidance, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity. He also calls for stronger public-private collaboration, ongoing cyber education, and scalable partnerships to address the region’s cybersecurity talent gap. This dialogue offers CISOs and technology leaders in Southeast Asia a pragmatic roadmap for enhancing digital resilience in a high-growth, high-risk environment.
- CSO Executive Sessions: Navigating sophisticated cyberthreats in Southeast Asia region (00:48:10)
In an era where cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, resilience is no longer a technical aspiration, it’s a strategic imperative. Today, CSO ASEAN is joined by Kavitha Mariappan, Chief Transformation Officer at Rubrik, who brings a unique lens to cybersecurity, one that fuses business strategy, customer impact, and cross-functional transformation. In this conversation, we explored how Southeast Asian organizations can navigate the rising tide of ransomware, AI-driven threats, and regulatory complexity. Kavitha shared insights on elevating cyber resilience to the boardroom, building collaborative ecosystems, and why thinking like an attacker might be the key to staying ahead.
- Navigating sophisticated ransomware attacks while proactively managing cyber risks (00:16:57)
Jason Merrick, Senior Vice President of Product at Tenable joins CSO ASEAN's new Editorial Director, Estelle Quek to discuss how organizations can better navigate ransomware attacks which employs sophisticated extortion tactics, secure today's hyper-interconnected, API-rich, OT- IT, multipartite fragmented environments and critical infrastructure, while proactively managing cyber risks and suppliers' accountability by leveraging Monetary Authority of Singapore and Cyber Security Agency of Singapore's recent proposed rules.
- CSO Executive Sessions: How AI and LLMs are affecting security in the financial services industry (00:13:09)
Mandy Andress - CISO at Elastic - joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about how large language models are offering a countermeasure against AI risks, how banks can integrate them with existing SIEM systems, and more.
- CSO Executive Sessions: How cybersecurity impacts company ratings - A fey factor for investors and consumers (00:27:12)
Martin Whitworth - Lead Cyber Risk Expert at S&P Global Ratings - joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about why the world's largest credit rating firm is now factoring in cyber preparedness when assessing companies, how cyber risk affects a company's financial health, and the role CISOs play in it.
- CSO Executive Sessions: Guardians of the Games - How to keep the Olympics and other major events cyber safe (00:16:40)
Bryan Woodworth – Director of Solution Strategy at Aviatrix – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about safeguarding the Olympics from cyber threats, operational technology and IoT considerations for critical infrastructure, and more.
- CSO Executive Sessions: Data protection in Malaysia (00:15:09)
Toh Shang Yee – Head of Information Security at MCIS Life – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about data governance and regulations in Malaysia, strategies to ensure resilience, and more.
- CSO Executive Sessions: The new realities of the CISO role - whistleblowing and legal liabilities (00:16:30)
Mark Bowling – Chief Information Security and Risk Officer at ExtraHop – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about the repercussions of more stringent reporting regulations, penalties CISOs may have to face, and more.
- CSO Executive Sessions: The personality of cybersecurity leaders (00:18:31)
Paul McCarthy – CEO and Co-Founder of the League of Scholars – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about the personality traits of cybersecurity leaders, how they differ from CIOs, and more.
- Elina Noor – Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (00:15:38)
Elina Noor – Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about what's driving geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea, the possibility of another cyber-attack of NotPetya proportions, and more.
- CSO Executive Sessions: 2024 International Women's Day special (00:10:09)
Kristel Dykimching (Information Security Governance Manager at GoTyme Bank) and Justine Co (Assistant Vice President of IT Audit at Converge ICT Solutions) join Xiou Ann Lim for this International Women's Day special on CSO Executive Sessions.
- Hieu Minh Ngo – Cybersecurity Specialist at the National Cyber Security Center of Vietnam (00:20:39)
Hieu Minh Ngo – Cybersecurity Specialist at the National Cyber Security Center of Vietnam – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about lessons in data protection, progress in governance, and more.
- Anthony Grieco – Chief Information Security Officer at Cisco (00:15:47)
Anthony Grieco – Chief Information Security Officer at Cisco – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about opportunities in Southeast Asia's cybersecurity landscape, future trends, and more.
- Francis Yeow – Country Information Security Officer of Singapore at IHH Healthcare (00:10:03)
Francis Yeow – Country Information Security Officer of Singapore at IHH Healthcare – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about aligning business objectives, lessons from 2022, and more.
- Huang Shao Fei – Group Chief Information Security Officer at SMRT Corporation (00:16:31)
Huang Shao Fei – Group Chief Information Security Officer at SMRT Corporation – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about the challenges of protecting critical infrastructure, key lessons from cyber-attacks, and more.
- Christian Fam – Regional Research and Consulting Manager, Security Practice at IDC Asia Pacific (00:20:51)
Christian Fam – Regional Research and Consulting Manager for IDC Asia Pacific's Security Practice – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about digital trust in the Asia-Pacific region, underlying trends, and more.
- Eddie Hau – Chief Information Security Officer of Sunway Group (00:16:41)
Eddie Hau, Chief Information Security Officer of Sunway Group, joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about the group’s risk culture, what Sunway is doing to plug the talent gap in the field, and more.
- Frankie Shuai - Former Director of Cyber & Technology Risk at UBS (00:12:42)
Frankie Shuai – Former Director of Cyber & Technology Risk at UBS – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about deepfake technology, the ethics of generative AI, and more.
- Rubaiyyaat Aakbar on security and privacy by design (00:17:55)
Rubaiyyaat Aakbar – Head of IT and Cybersecurity at DocDoc – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about cybersecurity in the healthcare industry, security considerations, and more.
- Hieu Minh Ngo on top cybersecurity vulnerabilities to watch out for (00:16:29)
Hieu Minh Ngo – Cybersecurity Specialist at the National Cyber Security Center of Vietnam – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview.
- SMRT Corporation’s Huang Shao Fei on AI and other technologies (00:17:19)
Huang Shao Fei – Group Chief Information Security Officer of SMRT Corporation – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview.
- Hong Kong Baptist University’s Allan Wong on his award-winning implementation of zero trust security (00:08:58)
Allan Wong – Director of Information Technology at Hong Kong Baptist University – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about the stumbling blocks in the adoption of zero trust, how to create security policies without hampering employee productivity, and more.
- IHH Healthcare’s Francis Yeow on talent (00:17:12)
Francis Yeow – Country Information Security Officer of Singapore at IHH Healthcare – joins Xiou Ann Lim for this CSO Executive Sessions interview. They talk about talent, risk culture in organisations, and more.