2nd Future CISO Conference Malaysia

2ND ANNUAL

MALAYSIA

Forging Future Advantage

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EVENT OVERVIEW

Malaysia, one of the most targeted nations in the Asia-Pacific, now finds itself at the epicentre of escalating challenges as it accelerates toward its ambitious AI Nation 2030 vision. As Malaysia rapidly shapes its digital future, the cybersecurity decisions made today will determine who forges competitive advantage and who gets left exposed.

By 2027, global cybercrime costs are projected to reach USD 24 trillion, nearly three times today’s figure. Malaysia’s regulatory framework has now reached full operational strength, charting a decisive and forward-looking trajectory for the nation’s digital future. The Cyber Security Act is entering its enforcement maturity phase across eleven National Critical Information Infrastructure sectors. The Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act (PDPA) has made Data Protection Officers, mandatory breach notification, and risk-based cross-border data transfer frameworks the new standard. Also, NACSA’s National Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Plan outlines Malaysia’s transition to quantum-safe infrastructure through a 2027–2028 validation and pilot phase targeting government systems, financial institutions, and telco infrastructure.

As Malaysia’s MyDIGITAL Digital Trust & Data Security Strategy runs through 2030, AI sector investments reached RM13.29 billion in the first half of last year alone, and the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement targeting a 2026 conclusion will bind regional data flows, cybersecurity standards, and digital trade in ways that will shape enterprise security obligations for years to come.

The 2nd Annual FutureCISO Malaysia Conference 2026, themed “Forging Future Advantage“, brings together Malaysia’s senior cybersecurity leaders to look beyond today’s compliance requirements and build security functions that create genuine strategic advantage heading into 2027 and beyond. Critical topics to be covered this year include:

Governing identity in the agentic AI era
Preparing for autonomous adversaries
Elevating the CISO to digital trust architect
Lessons from real-world breach record
Building AI and cloud security architectures that hold
Navigating the evolving post-quantum and regulatory frontier

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

The FutureCFO Conference aims to give CFOs, who also act as their company’s strategic business partner and catalyst, insights on ensuring corporate growth and successfully mitigating risks and challenges amidst the current economic and political uncertainties in their countries. The conference will also address strategies and best practices on how CFOs can reimagine finance functions and their organizations to survive and thrive in today’s fast-paced and digitally driven landscape.

This by-invitation only one-day event will gather over 120 senior finance leaders from multiple industries and offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in incisive panel discussions that discuss real-life business cases, updates and strategies to meet the most pertinent challenges facing the finance function in 2020.

High-Level Industry Speakers

We gather 20+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices important to your finance function management and transformation.

Interactive Discussions

Be part of our interactive panel discussions that address the current hot topics, share ideas and experiences and get the answers to your pressing questions from prominent finance leaders on stage.

Networking Opportunities

Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with fellow finance and treasury leaders in the region, solution providers and many more at our event through luncheons, coffee breaks, one-to-one meetings and informal introductions.

Targeted In-Depth Sessions

8 hours of learning and networking opportunities packed into 10 in depth sessions. Listen to corporate-driven best practices and case studies sharing that are targeted to your profession through the personalized country-specific conferences we crafted for you - FutureCFO Conferences.

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