Testimonials Library

"You come to the course and you learn so much. The surprising thing is you know nothing as you come over here and find that you build on the experience that Amar had and you get things look from a different prospective which you never had. By this course especially, I learned that how mature our process is internally. So, there are a lot of work which I need to do according the learning experience. Thankyou." Jeyo Sargunam - Global Security Manager - IBM

"Thank you very much for a very good and informative session for me. It was actually one of the good refreshers. There are certain terminologies that I was aware of before. But given the expanded risk in cyberspace, I really find it timely, especially, now with the pandemic that cyber-related events are more active. And of course, me being a business continuity coordinator, I can see that with the tips that you have given, I can incorporate those new terminologies and knowledge and I am hoping that as we continue with the development of our plans & playbooks, we’re really looking forward to checking with the materials that you are going to share. That will be very beneficial for us." Francis Tezon - Systems Security & Access Administrator - Bank of Commerce

“It was a very informative session, and I did learn a lot. I have been in the cyber security industry for a long time myself. Before I became a CISO, I have been there as a security admin. The triangle that you presented earlier; it makes a lot of sense to me. By knowing that 70 percent of the known attacks should be automated, you don’t need to waste your time in the investigation, that is a big thing. Because that's the real problem. Our analysts are really having a hard time to investigate something, that doesn't really matter. Based on how you explain, it makes a good sense of understanding. It is going to help us to improve our security operations - the way we detect and respond to the incident. But as I have mentioned earlier that we want to improve our ability to recover. So, we will get in touch with you, and want to understand playbook specific to an attack so we can come up with a checklist. Because when we get attacked, it's the time that is very important. The sooner you understand how to answer, whom to communicate with, the healthier it will be.” Rommelwin Ardidon - Systems Security & Access Administrator - Bank of Commerce

"First of all, thank you for the session which was really informative. I think this is very helpful for us. Since we are using traditional security tools and we are exploring the more complex tools like SIEM. So, this is very informative and the information on what types of threats we are facing and what we must be focusing on… that is very helpful as we are working on the bottom of the pyramid. So, I need to do the automation on that. So, I think that's the best topic from this session." Jherom Sarmiento - Systems Security & Access Administrator - Bank of Commerce

"It's a very good session. I think it's a very good training. It's quite different from some that I have attended which is basically a lot of material just thrown down on us. So, thanks for sharing your real-life experience and then also the real-life security incidents to further emphasize your teaching point. That's very good with all the experience, it actually enhances the course. It's a very practical approach and also it gives us a lot of advice which I think is pretty good, thank you."Chin Yong Tan - Group IT Director, Governance & SG Division IT - Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd

I just want to give a feedback about the program we had today on cyber security management and expereince in kind of walking us through the cyber security management and importance of the current scenario that how an organisation need to be prepared in looking up things, is very interesting, useful. The most important thing is expereince, the vast experience in handling, consulting large entities that are national or multinational becoming handy and they certain steps in these were thoroughly covered in the session, thanks" RS Lakshminaraya - Director Cyber Security Services - Cognizant

"I have been doing security for more than ten years and offer hardcore ideas. From this training, I find a lot of gaps that I know. So, with these, I think, I am a better person in how to handle security because you have already filled up my cracks of knowledge of security and how to better handle it. This is something I find very useful for me to enhance the company I work with on security and how to respond. Tay Giap Seng - HOS - IT Security and Infrastructure- Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd

"Although I come from non-IT as previously I was into the operations. I think Amar, you have actually presented a very concise, a very simplified version. It should be actually very valuable for us to actually explain it to the rest of our colleagues because we are actually all over. So, I find it very valuable. In short, whatever sharing, in terms of document and knowledge, we can actually share it across." Tan Wei Chun - Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd

"Thank you so much, Amar. I have learned a lot from this training. What I found most interesting is the alert fatigue. Every day we receive these alerts from the security operations and what we do is to verify this every day. If it's authorised or not. So, we got a pointer from you that we should have an automatic response to reduce these alerts and focus on what really matters." Mary Ann Valcos - Event Log Analyst - Bank of Commerce