Speaker Bio

Aloysius is currently the Chief Security Officer for Huawei Middle East & Central Asia based in Dubai, the UAE covering 24 countries geographically and 57 countries functionally. Additionally, he is a Board member with a UK-based cyber leadership focused think tank, Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and International Studies (CSCIS), an ex-Board member of ISC2 Global and currently an advisor to the ISC2 UAE, Singapore and Taipei Chapters. In his career spanning over 22 years, Aloysius had delivering direct business values in strategic, complex, multi-year and multi-million-dollar technology and cyber program for Global 500 organizations worldwide, while managing large multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary team spread across 5 continents and 4 major time zones. He was a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Cloud Security Alliance APAC and was the Chief Standard Officer globally. Prior to the CSA, Aloysius was Worldwide Head for Security for Vodafone Global Enterprise and a Security Practice Leader with PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore, having started his career with DSO National Laboratories in Singapore focusing on Defence R&D. As a globally recognized cybersecurity expert, Aloysius defined the term “Cybersecurity” having authored the first edition of ISO/IEC 27032 “Guidelines for Cybersecurity" and his professional perspectives are highly valued by major international media such as the BBC, Times, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, ISMG, MSN News, CXO Insights, Teletimes International, Xinhua News, SCMP, Phoenix Media, The Hindu, The Nation, Bangkok Post, Economic Times Daily, China Times, The Straits Times, ChannelNewsAsia, Zawya, The National, Gulf Business, ITP, Telecom Review, Teletimes and Al Bawaba.