DATO' TS. DR. HAJI AMIRUDIN ABDUL WAHAB

Chief Executive Officer

CyberSecurity Malaysia

Tanvinder Singh

Director Cyber Security & Privacy

PWC

Michael Daniel

President & CEO

Cyber Threat Alliance

Lena Yu

CEO and Founder, Malmons World Ltd

Founder, World Cyber Health - Malware Village

  • CEOs
  • CTOs
  • CSOs/CISOs
  • Regulators
  • Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Researchers

Dynamic cyber security leadership is recognized and reinforced through awards, knowledge sessions, panel discussions, training, and networking opportunities that enable CISOs to enhance skills and build relationships with critical stakeholders.

  • Compliance & AI – Governing the New Technology on the Block
  • Internal Threats – Strategies for Partner-Dependent Organizations
  • Disaster Recovery – What Works, and Doesn’t, in the Real World
  • Leading with Risk – How CISOs Can Drive Business Decisions
  • Data Without Borders? – Sovereignty, Trust, and the Cloud Dilemma

AVAR 2025’s CISO Awards recognize impactful cybersecurity leaders who have transformed the real-word effectiveness of enterprise cyber defenses in their organizations. Nominate exceptional CISOs from Malaysia for the Best CISO Award in 5 categories.

Training session: Building a Secure Malware Analysis Environment
Lena Yu, Malware Village
Training session: AI Management Systems for CISOs – Navigating Governance, Risk, and Compliance
S Kumar Subramania, K7 Cyber Security
  • Sniffing Around: Unmasking the LongNosedGoblin operation in Southeast Asia and Japan
  • ValleyRAT Unleashed: A Deep Dive into its Modern Arsenal and Tactics
  • Inside the Shadows: APT Tactics Using MSC Files, Grim Resource Injection, and AppDomain Hijacking
  • Meet VenomSEO: New Threat Targeting Malaysian Websites for Black SEO
  • Unmasking AI-Themed Malvertising Targeting Social Media Users
  • Lotus in Perpetual Bloom: Sustained Espionage in Southeast Asia with Evolving Sagerunex Backdoors
  • Countering the Unthinkable: Disrupting Advanced Threats with Unconventional Defenses
  • From Clusters to Actors: A Practical Threat Actor Attribution Framework
  • ConnectUnwise: How Threat Actors Abuse ConnectWise installer as Builder for Signed Malware
  • Yet Another Cyberespionage Operation In Vietnam
  • High Stakes, Hidden Threats: Unmasking the Vault Viper Network with DNS
  • SESE: Social Engineering Second Edition
  • Cracking the Vault: Real-World Crypto Wallet Exploits and Defense Strategies
  • Operation DRAGONCLONE: Chinese Telecommunication industry targeted via VELETRIX & VShell malware
  • The Open doorX : From Directory Listing to Attribution
  • IDFKA Backdoor: The Hidden Threat of Rust Implants in Modern APT Campaigns

These are just some of the papers that will be presented at AVAR 2025. View the agenda for more information.

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