Cyber Leaders Dialogue for Financial Services

Reuben Koh is a Director of Security Technology & Strategy at Akamai Technologies where he provides deep thought leadership in helping clients align critical security strategies with their core business initiatives and digital transformation strategies. He also works with Fortune 1000 enterprises and business partners across Asia Pacific & Japan in providing cybersecurity consultations, guidance, and expertise, especially in domains such as Zero Trust, SASE, XDR, network security and SecOps. 

Reuben also held past Solution and Technical leadership roles at HP, Symantec, CA Technologies, VMWare and prior to Akamai, he was the APJC Head of Security Channels Engineering at Cisco Systems. Reuben also hold various industry certifications and accreditation, among them ITIL, CCNP, CISA, CISM and CISSP.

Albert “Abet” Dela Cruz us Security Bank’s First Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He brings with him over 35 years of experience and expertise in IT and Information Security, handling various roles in both the private and public sector.

As Security Bank’s CISO, he is responsible for developing policies, processes, and procedures as well as drive the implementation of critical and relevant information security controls to improve the resiliency and readiness of the bank against attacks that threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its information assets.

Aside from being Security Bank’s CISO, Abet actively provides technical assistance and advisory services to various government agencies of the country “pro-bono publico” as a private citizen and as Founder and Director of the Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team Coordinating Center (PHCERT/CC).

Prior to joining the Bank, Abet worked with USAID and Nathan and Associates as Cybersecurity Lead, with Microsoft Philippines as Platform Strategy Manager, and with the Energy Development Corporation, Department of Justice, Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Information and Communication Technology , Supreme Court of the Philippines as Information Security Advisor. He also previously held CISO and CTO roles in leading technology and digital organizations in the country, and founded and nurtured several successful startups in Systems Integration, Mobile Application Development, and Information Security.