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APAC Research Advisory Council (APRAC)

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The APAC region represents a vibrant and burgeoning business ecosystem that spans markets with vastly varying degrees of development, regulatory and legal frameworks, consumer sophistication and needs. Unlike in the Western Hemisphere, ‘homogeneous’ is likely the last adjective one would use to describe the region. Yet it is the norm for many organizations in the region to conduct business across multiple borders, in a bid to survive or expand.
 
The dynamic nature of cross-border delivery of businesses and offerings in this region represents unique challenges for the cloud, in terms of both security and the myriad of technologies that interacts with the cloud. And to cater to the specific and differing needs of individual markets, while maintaining some level of homogeneity at the business level is one of the key goals, as well as key challenges for organizations with a regional presence. 
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The CSA recognizes the importance and potential business benefits that can be brought to bear if these challenges and gaps in the region can be identified, deliberated upon, and innovatively addressed. CSA also recognizes that to tackle region-specific issues and drive APAC-specific research, we need to tap upon brilliant minds, talents and expertise located in, and familiar with the region. 

Mission

It is with this impetus that CSA has decided to embark on convening a CSA APAC Research Advisory Council (CSA APRAC), with the mission to:
 
Enhance overall capabilities in cloud security for CSA APAC members, through collaboratively addressing APAC-specific gaps, challenges and problem statements; and developing and maintaining a vibrant APAC-driven research portfolio.
 
An APRAC will be key to ensuring relevance, sense of ownership and motivated adoption of the resulting research artifacts by key stakeholders in the region. Beyond regional adoption, resulting research artifacts also serves a larger purpose through helping CSA international members better understand the region to make inroads into this vibrant market. ​

Purpose

The purpose of the CSA APRAC is to provide high level advisory, guidance, directions, ideas to CSA APAC-driven research initiatives (e.g. Working Groups, projects, events, outreach) with a collective APAC voice.

Scope

The scope for the CSA APRAC includes, but is not limited to:
 
  1. Provide high level advisory and guidance on existing CSA research initiatives (e.g. Working Groups, projects, events)
  2. Identify APAC-specific gaps, challenges, problem statements
  3. Propose new APAC-specific research initiatives to develop and maintain a strong & vibrant APAC research portfolio in cloud security
  4. Tap on APRAC’s strong networks to create awareness and outreach for CSA APAC research initiatives

Council Co-Chairs

Dr Ryan KO, Chair and Director, UQ Cyber Security, University of Queensland, Australia 
Onn Chee WONG, CTO, Resolvo Systems, Singapore

Council Members

Dr. Lopa Mudraa BASUU, Global Head - Cyber Security Risks Governance & Compliance, Group IT Department, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd, India (Effective 18 Nov 2019)
Dr. Joe CHAN, CEO, AdvStar, Hong Kong
Stephanie HUNG King Chung, SVP Cloud Business, ST Engineering, Singapore ​(Effective 1 Nov 2020)
Sai HONIG, Senior Security Consultant, ANZ Bank, New Zealand ​(Effective 28 Feb 2020)
Leon JACKSON, Healthcare Technical Lead, Asia Pacific & Japan, Amazon Web Services, Malaysia
Ian LOE, SVP, Cybersecurity, NTUC Enterprise Co-operative Limited, Singapore (Effective 1 Nov 2019)
Dr. Sudsanguan NGAMSURIYAROJ, Assistant Professor, Mahidol University, Thailand
Narudom ROONGSIRIWONG, SVP, Head of IT Security, Kiatnakin Bank, Thailand (Effective 1 Nov 2019)
Ronald TSE, Founder & CEO, Ribose, Hong Kong (Effective 1 Nov 2020)
Arun VIVEK, 
Head of Cloud & Container Security – Cyber Security Services (CSS), Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore (Effective 28 Feb 2020)

Past Council Members

Dr. Lucas Chi-Kwong HUI, CTO, ASTRI, Hong Kong
Ravikishor MUNDADA
, CEO, Center of Excellence in  Cyber Security, Government of Karnataka, India
David SHU, ED, Security & Trust Solution Centre, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
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Josephine TAN, Director Regional Security - Asia Pacific, MasterCard
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