Steven Sim has worked for more than 25 years in the cybersecurity field with large end-user enterprises and critical infrastructures, undertaken global CISO role, driven award-winning CSO50 security governance and management initiatives and headed incident response, security architecture, technology and operations at local, regional and global levels. He leads cybersecurity across PSA Group, heading 8 direct reports at Group Cybersecurity Department and indirect reports across regional offices and local business units in 42 countries.
He oversees both IT and OT Security Governance, Global Cybersecurity Technology Management and Incident Response as well as Cyber Security Masterplan Office. He also leads the Group IT Security Centre of Expertise and Technology Scanning and Cybersecurity Practice Forum to franchise best practices to business units, driven cyber initiatives, developed standards, managed threats, identified 0day vulnerabilities and promoted awareness.
Always keen to give back to the community, he also volunteers at the ISACA Singapore Chapter (which won ISACA Global Outstanding Chapter Achievement in 2022) in as the President (from 2021 to 2022) as well as at OT-ISAC (since 2021), the second key thrust of the Singapore’s OT Cybersecurity Masterplan 2019, as the Chair of the Executive Committee, and holds a Masters in Computing, CCISO, CGEIT, CRISC, CISM, CISA, CDPSE, CISSP as well as technical certifications GICSP, GREM, GCIH and GPPA.
He is an APMG-accredited trainer for ISACA's core certifications and a member of the Cybereason Cyber Defense Council, CyberEdBoard, Microsoft APAC CISO Council, Fortinet Executive Cyber Exchange (ECE) and SANS Offensive Operations Community. He regularly shares his thoughts on cyber risk and security, lectures on an adjunct basis at National University of Singapore Institute of System Sciences (on Enterprise Security Architecture) and other institutes of higher learning, speaks and panels at both international and local conferences and published articles.
He is recognised as #1 CSO in the inaugural IDG’s CSO30 ASEAN Awards 2021, as a winner in the ISACA Outstanding Chapter Leader Achievement Awards 2022, #7 in Global Cyber Security Thought Leaders under the IFSEC Global Top Influencers 2022, as a Global Cybersecurity Leader 2022 (CXOTV), an ISACA Global Outstanding Chapter Leader in 2022, in the Peerlyst 29 Highly Influential CISOs list, a Singapore SkillsFuture Fellow and a Professional (Leaders) Finalist in the inaugural Singapore’s Cybersecurity Awards 2018.
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