As a prominent leader, educator, researcher and volunteer, Dr Steven Wong has made many impactful and significant contributions to the growth of the cybersecurity ecosystem in Singapore. His limitless passion, enthusiasm and innovativeness makes him an excellent role model for all cybersecurity professionals in Singapore

Dr Steven Wong was the former President of the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP) and under his leadership, the association has launched many significant initiatives to grow the cybersecurity ecosystem in Singapore. Steven also plays a significant role is advancing the cybersecurity standards and practices in Singapore. Notably, he led the establishment and development of CREST Singapore to elevate the standards for penetration testing services in Singapore. He also led a task force to draft and develop the Singapore Cybersecurity Standards Roadmap. Other than AiSP, he also spends his time serving in leadership positions in several other industry committees and bodies. Positions he has held include the Deputy Chairman for the Coordinating Committee for Cybersecurity (CCCY), Co-Chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance APAC Education Council, Co-Chairman of the Council for Registered Ethical Security Testers, Co-Chairman of WG3 of the Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee, the Chairman of the IEEE Consumer Electronics (Singapore) chapter, etc.

As an educator, Dr Steven Wong is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) where he spearheaded the first Information Security degree programme offered by an autonomous university in Singapore as its founding Programming Director. As a teacher, Steven is passionate about educating the next generation and has been given many teaching awards over his last two decades in academia. Most recently, he was also awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in the National Day Awards 2020 for his contributions to the University.

Alina Tan is a prominent figure in the automotive cybersecurity industry in Singapore. She founded and leads the Car Security Quarter (CSQ) — a Singapore-based automotive cybersecurity special interest group — and the Singapore Chapter of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG-SIN) — a global non-profit initiative that promotes knowledge sharing and development of security solutions for automotive.

She set up these platforms to allow cybersecurity professionals, enthusiasts and students to interact with the wider community and perform hands-on learning and research on automotive cybersecurity. Through these platforms, Alina and her team exported Singapore’s automotive cybersecurity contributions to the international stage by conducting seminars and workshops at cybersecurity conferences held in Singapore, Japan and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Alina also works as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at the Land Transport Authority (LTA), contributing primarily in the area of automotive cybersecurity regulations, hands-on technical research and engineering. Alina is also an active contributor to the wider cybersecurity community. She is a core volunteer in Division Zero — a Singapore-based cybersecurity community group — and a Co-opted Executive Committee member of Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP) and a mentor in AiSP’s Women In Cyber initatve.

If chosen as an award winner, I would help to contribute by volunteering as well as leading more cyber-security initiatives. I hope to continue growing the cybersecurity community in Singapore and bring like-minded people together. As an award winner, I want to be an inspiration for my juniors in school and motivate them to do better and achieve even more than me.

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Being a Swiss/Singaporean Headquartered Cyber Protection company, Acronis would continue to contribute training up a pool of Cybersecurity talent in Singapore, participate in workshops to build awareness on Cybersecurity, and educate businesses and the public on the importance of implementing security as part of their operations and daily lives. These are already actively pursued in our daily work, and is very much part of our DNA. Acronis would also work closely with government agencies, such as EDB, DISG and CSA to ensure we contribute our knowledge to help the Singapore government realize its vision for the Safer Cyberspace Masterplan 2020.

COVID-19 has brought about massive changes to the way we live, work and bank, and has greatly accelerated digital adoption. Despite the pandemic, we were able to rapidly scale up our digital banking services safely and securely to support our customers in their time of need, and provide employees with secure remote access so that they could work from the safety of their homes. All this was possible because of DBS’ earlier investments in establishing a layered cyberdefense infrastructure with strong system controls. At the same time, we have been supporting the national Smart Nation agenda by grooming a pipeline of cybersecurity talent through the Technology in Finance Immersion Programme and the SGUnited Traineeship Programme. We have also continued engaging the community on cybersecurity amid Covid-19 by conduc0ng our community cyberwellness programmes online, enabling non-profits, charities and SMEs to pick up critical knowledge on how they can enable remote working while protecting themselves from cyberthreats.

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