Cyber Security - Our Belief, Your Future

Date: 13 November 2020 (Friday)
Time: 6-7:30pm (HKT)
Venue: Online via Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 922 2409 2635
Passcode: 2010cse
Title: Cyber Security - Our Belief, Your Future
Speaker: Dr. Ricci S. C. Ieong, CISSP, CCFP, CCSP; Principal Consultant, eWalker Consulting (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong; Adjunct Assistant Professor, CSE, HKUST

* This seminar is listed under both COMP 4900 and ENGG 2010.

About the Talk:

Cybersecurity is considered to be one of the hottest topics in the IT industry (similar to Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing). Unfortunately (or fortunately) we have insufficient candidates available to fill the gaps and available positions in the security market. In fact, CSE Department of HKUST was the very first university in Hong Kong to include IT security course into the undergraduate curriculum.

Do you want to fit yourself into the position? But are you ready to fit into the cybersecurity job? What does the industry needs? IT industry is evolving very rapidly these years, how should we participate and enable ourselves to this ever-changing ET industry. What should we do to make cybersecurity becomes your future career? Dr. Ricci IEONG will share his academic and industry experiences within this webinar.

Speaker:

Dr. Ricci S. C. Ieong, CISSP, CCFP, CCSP, Principal Consultant, eWalker Consulting (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong. Dr. Ricci S.C. Ieong has over 23 years of industry experience in the information technology as well as more than 20 years of experience in IT security area specialized in security risk assessment, IT audit, ethical hacking and penetration test, smart card and biometrics system deployment and computer forensics investigation. He is the Founder and Principal Consultant of eWalker Consulting (HK) Ltd. where he leads the IT security and digital forensics investigation services. He is also actively involved in teaching computer security related course at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in HKUST. Ricci is also the founding member and Vice-Chairman of the Information Security and Forensics Society (ISFS) which is a non-profit community in Hong Kong chartered with the mission to develop and adopt relevant IT security and Computer Forensics standards for Hong Kong IT industry and government, to uplift the security awareness in Hong Kong industry and to set training syllabus and accreditation examinations for members.

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