ANREV BRIEFING
TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016
HONG KONG                                                  

IMPACT OF CYBERSECURITY ON PRIVATE EQUITY REAL ESTATE FUNDS

ANREV is pleased to invite you to join us for an afternoon briefing on Tuesday 24 May 2016 in Hong Kong. At this briefing, Mr. KT Gan, Partner and Felix Kan, Senior Manager of PwC’s Risk Assurance practice will help us to understand what types of cybersecurity challenges we are facing and how we can deal with the emerging risk.

Cybersecurity is more than an IT challenge—it’s a business imperative. New technologies, and interconnected business ecosystems have combined to increase our exposure to cyber attacks. This explains why property owners are seeing (or being involved in) more cybersecurity incidents (including payment data breaches) in the recent past, and all over the world.

As part of your ongoing operational processes, have you assessed the security levels internally, and counterparties who handle investor or asset level data? Have your service providers got sufficient cyber security awareness and procedures?

We will cover the following topics in the briefing:

• Latest cyber threats landscape
• Common cyber pitfalls
• Conduct "live" hacking to demonstrate the "how" of a data theft
• Sharing of real cyber "war stories" based on past projects
•  Provide tips to establish a holistic cyber security framework​

KT Gan
Partner – Risk Assurance
PwC

Kok-Tin is a Partner in PwC’s Risk Assurance practice with over 12 years of experience. Kok-Tin’s key areas of expertise and experience include Cyber security strategy, framework, IT governance, IT security framework, application and data security, IT risk, security management, security / technology architecture and ethical hacking. Kok-Tin is extremely well versed with a number of security technology solutions (such as identity, data loss prevention, firewall, security analytics, etc.), attack / cybercrime scenarios, payment security, and security assessment framework (such as PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, ISO 27001:2005/2013, CoBIT, OWASP, OWASP Mobile etc.), relevant technology regulatory guidelines (e.g., HKMA, SFC, MAS, AMCM’s guidelines and other guidelines in the Asia Pacific region), using both automated and manual penetration testing techniques, source code security review tool, and risk management procedures pertaining to security assessment. Kok-Tin has led ~300 small to large size of security assessment / transformation engagements and has worked across different continents including, Asia, America, Europe and Africa.

Felix Kan
Senior Manager – Risk Assurance
PwC

Felix is a Senior Manager in PwC’s Risk Assurance practice with 7 years of extensive experience. Felix’s key areas of expertise and experience include IT governance, IT security framework, application and data security, IT risk, security management, technology architecture and ethical hacking focusing on high security network, web and mobile applications, for more than 400 systems. He has also developed his own hacking tool for mobile apps. Translating his experience in ethical hacking, Felix is a co-author of one of the recent circulars published by a regulator in Hong Kong, to promote cybersecurity within the industry, and is well versed with a number of security technology solutions (such as identity, data loss prevention, firewall, security analytics, etc.), attack / cybercrime scenarios, payment security, and security assessment framework (such as PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, ISO 27001:2005/2013, CoBIT, OWASP, OWASP Mobile etc.), relevant technology regulatory guidelines (e.g., HKMA, SFC, MAS, AMCM’s guidelines and other guidelines in the Asia Pacific region).