STEPHEN SINGAM

Stephen Singam is a Chief Information Security Officer with proven experience in the Defense, Biopharmaceutical, Consulting, Technology Services, and Financial Services sectors, especially FinTechs. Stephen has had senior cybersecurity responsibilities at Salesforce.com (San Francisco), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Sydney), The 21st Century Fox (Los Angeles), IBM Corp (New York and Singapore), Hewlett Packard (the Asia Pacific and Japan), Nokia (Helsinki, Finland), Guidehouse LLP (Washington DC) and cybersecurity start-up at Distil Networks (San Francisco), Versive (Seattle) TwoSense.ai (New York), and FinTech start-ups advisories at SingLife (Singapore), Bank Jago (Jakarta, Indonesia) and TribalCredit (San Francisco). He has built cybersecurity programs from the ground up at three FinTec startups (Bank Jago, Bank Amman, and Tribal Credit), which led to ISO 27001 certifications and PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliance. At Guidehouse LLP (formerly PwC's Public Sector), he was the Technical Program Manager at the United States Department of Defense (DoD)'s Credential Enterprise Solution & Services Program (ICEs2), serving the following agencies: US Air Force, US Army, US Marine Corps, and US Navy and the following services Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), Defense Information System Agency (DISA), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Missile Defense Agency (MDA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), White House Communications Agency (WHCA) and White House Military Office (WHMO). He holds a Secret Clearance from the Department of Defense (DoD). At the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he was deployed as a Trusted CSO Advisory personnel conducting technical reviews, creating security advisory alerts, conducting technology risk management workshops, and guiding Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)'s Federal Operational Cybersecurity Unified Strategy for the Fiscal Year 2021. At the 21st Century Fox, he created its first Anti-Piracy Standards and Intellectual Property (IP) Security Architecture for the most successful movie release of all time, James Cameron's Avatar - a $US3.8B asset encompassing the engagement of 60+ vendors worldwide with multiple technology platforms, legal requirements, and culture from the movie script to the theatrical release in December 2009. He has managed direct reports ranging from a team of 16 to 135 security personnel with $US5M to $US$50M annual budgets. He holds an MS in Management of Technology from the Wharton Business School & the School of Applied Science & Engineering. He is a Moore Fellow in Management of Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. Additional certifications are Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has been on the panels and presented at Tech ROI, New York Times Business-Innovation, Silicon Valley's ISACA Annual Meetings, RSA Conference, B-Sides, UK's KTN, and PwC's Data Privacy & Big Data. He presented 'ML Cybersecurity Programs & Emerging Audit Risks' - at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Audit Summit and 'Unmasking Chatbots: Hacking API.' B-Sides in Orlando, Florida. Moreover, Stephen is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and a certified trained professional in Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAAP). He serves on the advisory boards for numerous AI Security startups, including one funded by the founders of OpenAI and Hugging Face. Director of Security with [Number] years of experience managing investigations, personnel matters and sensitive information and intelligence. Leads, maintains and improves operations and functions of security department while effectively managing crises in fast-paced environment. Thorough knowledge of advanced security systems, computerized access control, and security-related legislation and regulation.

• The Economic Impact of Malicious Bots, NG Security 2017, Austin, Texas
• Banking Industry and API Security Breaches: A Lesson to be Learned, FS-ISAC European Summit 2017, Barcelona, Spain
• Unmasking Chatbots: Hacking API, B-Sides Orlando 2017, Orlando, Florida
• Securing a US$2.8B Digital Asset: The Movie - Avatar, RSA Conference 2017, Singapore
• Building a Real-Time State Storage and Machine Learning Algorithm to Mitigate Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), International Symposium on Big Data Management and Analytics - BIDMA 2017
• Cyber Security 2017 - Track 3: Cyber Security in the Movie Industry, 2017 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services, London, United Kingdom
• ML Cybersecurity Programs & Emerging Audit Risks, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Audit Summit, San Francisco, California
• Overcoming Software Supply Chain Risks and Mitigation Strategies, Tech in Asia x Snyk Virtual Event

• Technical Editor for the Cloud & Virtualization Security and Big Data Security for McGraw Hills' Information Security: The Complete Reference, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hills, February 22, 2013, 0071784357
• Technical Reviewer for Real-World Cryptography, Manning Publications, October 15, 2021, 978161729671

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