I have contributed 15 e-learning units to the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)‘s Accountify platform over the last year or so and was surprised to see that there has been 1992 total students, which I take to be enrolment numbers into my 15 units collectively. This averages 133 participants for each e-learning unit. The … Read more
Check out my article written exclusively for the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)‘s Chartered Accountants Lab (digital newsletter) on the topic of “Strengthening Cybersecurity for Financial Professionals”. The next run of DGT093 : Cybersecurity Strategies and Ethical Standards for Accountants and Auditors (One Day – Classroom Face-to-Face) will be on 21 July 2025. If … Read more
One of the regular exercises I carried out as a former Agency Chief Information Security Officer in an statutory board was to conduct regular phishing exercises. For the uninitiated, phishing is defined by Meta.AI as: “… a type of cybercrime in which attackers send fraudulent communications, such as emails, texts, or messages, that appear to … Read more
[Disclaimer: This Post is based on a real incident I encountered but the writing was assisted with generative AI (ChatGPT) but edited by myself because the phrasing used by ChatGPT were not typically how I would phrase some of the experiences.] It started with two emails from students, and little did I know, it would … Read more
Before became self-employed, my last role was that of being an Agency Chief Information Security Officer or ACISO. The job title itself sounds grand and impressive, but the work was mostly cleaning up after the fairly basic mistakes by staff and vendors of simple IT security and cybersecurity breaches. It also involved answering to a … Read more