Bio

Aloysius Cheang is a senior corporate executive with extensive experience running international businesses. He is a globally recognised cybersecurity expert and had worked on many security engagements with varying degree of technical challenges in his entire career. In his line of work, he had managed large multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary team spread across 5 continents and 4 major time zones, many a time building up the business from scratch. Aloysius is currently the Chief Security Officer for Huawei Middle East & Central Asia based in Dubai, the UAE covering 21 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) and an Advisor to the ISC2 UAE Chapter. Previously, Aloysius was a Board member of ISC2 Global. He was a co-founder of Cloud Security Alliance APAC, running it as its managing director for 7 years and was instrumental for its global expansion out of the USA, getting buy-in from governments worldwide and Fortune 500 companies; and single-handedly charted collaboration with organisations such as ISC2, ITU-T & ISO. Prior to the CSA, Aloysius was Worldwide Head for Security for a global telco, Practice Leader with a global management consulting firm, having started his career as as technical staff member with Singapore's DSO National Laboratories. A firm believer of giving back to the community, Aloysius was instrumental in establishing AISP in Singapore, sister organisation to IISP in UK, where he was protem chairman from 2006-2007, and chaired its predecessor, SIG^2 from 2002 to 2006. He was also an active participation in International Standardisation efforts, having co-edited the first version of ISO/IEC 27032 ''Guidelines for Cybersecurity'' and was a contributor to SS507 “Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Industry Standard” that was adopted as ISO/IEC 24762 among many others. Aloysius’s views are valued by major media globally such as BBC, Times, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, CIO-Asia, IDC, BankInfoSecurity, Xinhua News, Phoenix News, CCTV, The Hindu Times, China Times, SCMP, Bangkok Post, Zaobao, The Straits Times, CNA, Gulf Business, Zaywa, Al Bawaba, ITP & the National. For a full list of his media interviews, publications & public presentations, please visit: https://aloysiuscheang.wordpress.com