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

Arivindran Saidoo

Partner, Technology Risk and Cybersecurity Consulting

Ashok Kumar J

Founder & CEO

Dharshan Shanthamurthy

Founder and CEO

Dinesh Barathy

Group Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Peter Leong

Co Founder

Ekneswaran Matandor

Erik Heyland

Management Board

Jacky AW

Head of Tech Risk and BCM

Jairam Ramesh

Director of Cyber Security

James Thang

Group CIO

Jonathan Tam

Regional Cybersecurity Officer

Ken Soh

CEO

Malini Kanesamoorthy

CISO /Head of Group Technology Risk

Murugason R. Thangaratnam

CEO

Ridzwan Mahdi

Head of Cybersecurity GRC & Data Protection

Ruban Bala

Digital Trust & Cyber Risk Advocate

Santeri Kangas

CTO

Selvakumar Manickam

Professor and Director of Cybersecurity Research Centre

Shah Mijanur Rahman

Head of Security

Syahril Aziz

Managing Consultant

Tanvinder Singh

Director - Cyber Security and Privacy

Vikneswaran Kunasegaran

Malaysian Representative/SVP, Security Assessment

Vimalaasree Anandhan

Head of Cybersecurity

Xavier P. Capilitan Jr.

COO

Yusfarizal Yusoff

Head of Security Architecture

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

Chetan Raghuprasad

Cisco

Eddy Willems

WAVCi

Igor Zdobnov

Doctor Web, Ltd.

Ivan Korolev

Doctor Web, Ltd.

Jaromír Hořejší

Check Point

Joey Chen

Cisco

Righard Zwienenberg

ESET

Sathwik Ram Prakki

Quick Heal

Shogo Hayashi

NTT Security Holdings

Subhajeet Singha

Quick Heal
  • 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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