Aloysius Cheang

Aloysius Cheang
Occupation	Managing Director
Employer	Cloud Security Alliance

Aloysius Cheang is the Managing Director APAC for the Cloud Security Alliance. He has another role as their Standards Secretariat overseeing all standardization efforts within CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) and owning the relationships with other SDOs. Aloysius was a former member of the Singapore government's Chief Security Officer roundtable, and founder of SIG^2^[1] in 2001.^[2][3] He also held senior executive positions with various consulting companies and telco with a worldwide remit.

SIG^2 rose to become the de facto security community in Asia, and lead to the formalisation of the Singapore government-backed Association of Information Security Professionals (AISP), where Cheang was pro tem chairman from 2006–2007. He was also co-editor for the ISO/IEC 27032 "Guidelines for Cybersecurity", and represented Singapore on ISO/IEC/JTC 1 SC 27 WG4. His previous contribution for SS 507 “Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Industry Standard” was adopted as ISO/IEC 24762. Cheang sits on the Singapore IT Standards Committee and the National Infocomm Competency Framework Security Sub-Committee.

Cheang's professional certifications include CISA, CISSP and GCIH, and is the first Microsoft Security MVP in South Asia, and a member of the Microsoft SEA MVP Hall of Fame. His views have been presented in Times Asia,^[4] CIO Asia,^[5] ZDNet,^[6] ComputerWorld, The New Paper,^[7] MyPaper, Sin Chew Jit Poh, Wen Wei Po,^[8] The Straits Times^[9] and ChannelNewsAsia as an independent source of specialist opinion.

Publications

• A framework for managing information systems security^[10]
• Analysis of the Linux.Ramen Worm^[11]
• Singapore Standard 493 Specification For IT Security Standards Framework^[12]
• Singapore Standard 507 Singapore standard for information and communications technology disaster recovery services, which has been adopted as ISO/IEC24762 Guidelines for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Disaster Recovery Services^[13][14][15]
• Security MVP Article of the Month – August 2007 and Security Technet Article of the Month, Role of Security in Infrastructure Optimization, August 15, 2007^[16]
• Security MVP Article of the Month – May 2008 and Security Technet Article of the Month, Privacy Issues – Business Disabler or Enabler?, May 14, 2008^[17]

References

1. SIG^2
2. Profile on SIG^2
3. Microsoft MVP site
4. Paris Hilton's Hack Attack
5. The Mobility Threat
6. Do former black hats make good hires?
7. banks not hit yet but warned to be vigilant
8. WiFi炒股 易遭盜密碼
9. New media: A case of Jekyll & Hyde
10. PACIS 2001 Proceeds, Paper 22
11. Analysis of the Linux.Ramen Worm
12. IT Standards Committee list of IT standard
13. S'pore pushes business continuity, disaster recovery standard
14. Singapore Standards on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery on its way to become an International Standard
15. PSB Certification Body – Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)
16. Role of Security in Infrastructure Optimization
17. Privacy Issues – Business Disabler or Enabler?