Speaker

Garion Kong

Senior Advisor

ISC2 SINGAPORE CHAPTER

Garion is an information technology and security professional with over 20 years’ experience leading IT governance, management and information security for SMEs and regional offices of MNCs in Asia. He is currently the Group Information Security Manager for Asia Pacific region for a FTSE-100 UK engineering company and the Data Protection Officer (DPO) for their Singapore registered entities. Prior to his current role, Garion was the Head of IT & Security for Asia and Manager, Technical Services (APAC) for a global software analytics company and prior to that, Head of IT for a catastrophe risk modelling and research company.

Garion is a certified quality professional with CQI, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Lead Auditor and a certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO).

Garion is the Past President, Partnerships Director and Senior Advisor for the ISC2 Singapore Chapter. He is a Volunteer Career Advisor with Workforce Singapore (WSG) and is also an EXCO member with Tech Talent Assembly (TTAB), leading their DevOps and Cybersecurity Chapters.