RSA Conference 2019 Asia Pacific & Japan Unveils Keynote Stage Line-up

RSA
Conference, the world’s leading information security conferences and
expositions, today announced its line-up of keynote speakers for RSA
Conference 2019 Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ). The Conference keynotes will
be opened by Mr.
Amrin Amin, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Singapore’s Ministry
of Home Affairs and Ministry of Health on Tuesday, July 16,at
the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center.

The APJ region is home to seven of the top 10 economies with the largest
ICT to GDP growth ratio¹. As economic growth and people’s
lifestyles become increasingly dependent on digital products and
services, this year’s keynotes will focus on how everyone – from the
C-suites to the frontlines – can ensure a more secure region while
collectively continuing to pursue progress.

Some highlights of the keynote line-up include Kyla
Guru, a 17-year-old student and internationally-renowned
cybersecurity prodigy and entrepreneur, who will share her thoughts on
transforming public education systems around privacy and cybersecurity
and what she believes should be the mission of all cybersecurity
initiatives. Also, a team of global computer forensics and ethical
hacking experts from the SANS
Institute will deliver unique perspectives on dangerous new
cyber-attack techniques and how we can make radical changes to improve
the current state of ‘cyber-insecurity’.

The
Hugh Thompson Show: DeepFakes and the Human Zero Day will be a
highlight on the Conference keynote stage. RSA Conference Program Chair
Hugh Thompson will feature special guests – actor and writer Alexis
Conran, and top cybersecurity researchers Saurabh Shintre and Dr
Vrizlynn Thing. Together, they will discuss what makes humans most
susceptible to being manipulated and compromised, how DeepFakes and AI
are being weaponized, and how this forever changes defense strategies.

“Driving progress and navigating an evolving cybersecurity landscape
come hand in hand. The rise of e-commerce and FinTech in Asia boosts
consumption and inclusion but makes us vulnerable to new forms of scams
and fraud. Sharper AI algorithms boost productivity but can also be used
to make cyber-threats harder to discern. The line-up that we’ve
assembled will help us better leverage digital opportunities while
managing associated risks. Our goal is to help create a brighter future
by highlighting what it takes to become more secure today,” said Linda
Gray Martin, Senior Director and General Manager, RSA Conferences.

Keynote speakers and sessions include:

• Mr. Amrin Amin, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home
  Affairs & Ministry of Health
  Opening keynote
  Guest-of-Honor for RSA Conference 2019 APJ, Mr. Amrin Amin is Senior
  Parliamentary Secretary for Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs and
  Ministry of Health. He is a Member of Parliament representing
  Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (Woodlands) since
  September 2015. Prior to political office, he was a corporate lawyer
  specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Amrin read law at the
  National University of Singapore (Bachelor of Law) (Honors) and
  Columbia University in New York (Master of Law) (Harlan Fiske Stone
  Scholar).

• Kyla
  Guru, Founder / CEO, Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education
  | Tales of a Teenage Security Supergirl
  Before her freshman
  year in high school, Kyla Guru founded Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity, a
  national organization that now sustains more than 20 national
  partnerships with school districts, corporations like Facebook and
  IBM, and educational platforms like Discovery Education, all to
  increase awareness, literacy, and fluency in privacy and
  cybersecurity. Guru will share her story of being a social
  entrepreneur, what she believes should be the greater mission of all
  cybersecurity initiatives, and what she sees as the future of the
  industry.

• The Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques and How to Counter
  Them
  Presented by the SANS Institute, this keynote panel will
  reveal the most dangerous new attack techniques, how they work and how
  we can stop them. Speakers include Robert
  M. Lee, CEO and Founder, Dragos, Inc, SANS Certified
  Instructor; My-Ngoc
  Nguyen, CEO / Principal Consultant, Secured IT Solutions,
  SANS Certified Instructor; Stephen
  Sims, SANS Faculty Fellow, PenTest and Cyber Defense
  Essentials Curriculum Lead and moderated by Nick
  Klein, Director of Klein & Co., Computer Forensics, SANS
  Certified Instructor.

• Rohit
  Ghai, President, RSA, and Holly
  Rollo, Senior Vice President and Digital Transformation
  Lead, RSA | The New Why of Cybersecurity
  Digital investment
  accelerates business velocity, transforms constituent experiences and
  spawns new opportunities. But this formidable force for human progress
  also magnifies risk. Together with leading industry experts from RSA,
  Rohit Ghai will address the management of digital risk as the new
  ‘why’ for cybersecurity.

• Diana
  Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft | Better
  Cybersecurity with AI and ML? Focus on Culture, Diversity and Inclusion
  AI
  and machine learning can speed up the threat response cycle, but
  without diverse teams developing these machine learning models, we may
  end up automating bias or even criminals’ attack paths. Diana Kelley
  will explain the importance of culture and diversity within
  organizations’ cybersecurity teams, to ensure they benefit from
  advances in the fields of AI and machine learning.

• Haiyan
  Song, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security
  Markets, Splunk | Embracing Chaos to Reimagine Cybersecurity
  As
  nation-state hacks and concerns around privacy continue to mount, data
  is playing an increasingly critical role in the success of the
  security operations center (SOC). With security professionals facing
  an ever-increasing volume of risk, Haiyan Song will share ways to
  embrace data chaos, fuel innovation and stay one step ahead of today’s
  biggest security threats.

• Aarti
  Borkar, Vice President, Offering Management, IBM Security |
  The New Rules of Security
  The reality today is that
  enterprises must secure business processes from and for the cloud. As
  we move into the next era of cloud computing, Aarti Borkar will detail
  how cybersecurity leaders can adopt a continuous security model to
  protect data and workloads, manage threats and compliance, and secure
  identities and networks.

• The Hugh Thompson Show: DeepFakes and The Human Zero Day
  From
  social engineering and exploiting human zero days to DeepFakes that
  are now harder to discern than ever before, the greatest threats we
  have ever faced sit inside the human mind. This closing keynote takes
  you behind the scenes to explore what it is about humans that makes us
  susceptible to getting manipulated and compromised. Learn how
  DeepFakes and AI are being weaponized from world-renowned
  application security expert and RSA Conference Program Committee
  Chair, Hugh
  Thompson, and special guests Vrizlynn
  Thing, Senior Vice President, Head of Cybersecurity
  Strategic Technology Centre, ST Engineering; Saurabh
  Shintre, Senior Principal Researcher; and Alexis
  Conran, a celebrity presenter and broadcaster best known
  for his role in highly acclaimed BBC TV show, The Real Hustle.

Additional information and online registration details:

• For more information on RSA Conference 2019 APJ keynote speakers and
  topics, please visit: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/ap19/agenda/keynotes
• To register, please visit: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/ap19/register
• Media can register for a press pass here: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/ap19/press

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¹ International Monetary Fund. Regional Economic Outlook:
Asia-Pacific. May 2018.

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