Cyber Security MEETUP
Cyber Risk Meetup Interview with Shamane Tan, the Founder of Cyber Risk Meetup
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018 has been an incredibly rich year, packed
it comes to experience. If we are patient enough,
(Shout out to Privasec for being our biggest
with conferences and events as the Cyber
there is so much that we can draw from their deep
supporter and for all their active contributions to
Security industry tries to keep up with trends
wells of knowledge. I started the Cyber Risk Meetup
the different industry events.) After a period of time,
and governance. In the midst of all that, there was
in Sydney in 2017 with the intention to create a
even strangers will become a friendly face and it
a meetup group that stood out amongst all other
platform where talented people can share their
helps to speak to a peer or one of the executives in
meetups and very quickly became known as a class
experiences and key learns. ‘It’s said that a wise
the same industry. I was recently watching Ocean’s
of its own. It was the Cyber Risk Meetup, which has
person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns
Eight on the plane and it’s interesting to see how
rapidly become a well-known favourite and one of
from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all
the bad girls had to collaborate together to pull off
those NEED TO ATTEND event.
learns from others’s successes.’ Hence, I wanted to
the biggest steal of the century. How much more
build a community where like-minded professionals
do we need to work together and be more active in
Cyber Risk Meetup on its uniqueness. As the APAC
can network with one another. In doing so, I find
sharing our ideas as we battle together to protect
Cyber Risk Adviser with Privasec, a leading Cyber
out their actual challenges, and was inspired to
our loved ones and workforce in this digital age.
Security consulting firm, she also works with her
organise my events around topics that industry
The meetups provide a fantastic opportunity for
GRC and Technical Assurance team together with
leaders are so passionate about! I never expected it
professionals, our new generation and the general
the different CISOs to bridge security gaps in
to scale up the way it did.
public to come together and learn from one another
We interviewed Shamane Tan, the Founder of
organisations.
in a comfortable and safe environment. Indeed it
Q. How does it work? Q: Why do you do what you do? We meet up once every quarter and start off first In my last 9 years in this industry, if it’s one thing I
with networking over complimentary food and
learnt - is that people are our biggest wealth when
drinks courtesy of our Cyber Risk Meetup sponsors.
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takes a community to build a community.
