Programme Highlights:

Last year, The Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT, 香港電腦保安事故協調中心) of the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) handled 8,393 security incidents, an increase of 9% over 2021, the first increase in four years. The most significant incident was Botnet (4,858 cases), up 40% from 2021; the second major incident was phishing (2,946 cases), which was 21% lower than in 2021, but the number of URLs involved (15,736 links) increased by 4%, with more than 60% of them related to e-commerce, online banking and cryptocurrency.

HKCERT identified five major information security risks that public must pay attention to in 2023:

1.       Identity/Credential Theft

2.       Attacks Utilising A.I. 

3.       Crime as a Service

4.       Cyber Attacks Targeting Web 3.0 

5.       Attacks Arisen from Widespread Application of IoT

In this webinar, Alex will summarise the information security situation in Hong Kong in 2022 and release the security forecast for 2023 and provide a deep-dive presentation on IoT cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Language: Cantonese

Speaker:

Mr. Alex Chan, General Manager, Digital Transformation, Hong Kong Productivity Council

Biography of Speaker:

Mr. Alex Chan is the General Manager, Digital Transformation at the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC). Joined HKPC in 2020, Alex is a seasoned IT consultancy professional with more than 20 years of MNC experience in the consultancy, utilities and telecommunication industries. Alex currently lead the units of industry consulting, digital enablement and cybersecurity in HKPC, including HK Computer Emergency Response Team (HKCERT).

Prior to joining HKPC, Alex was holding an executive position in Accenture and was responsible for technology consulting and industry advisory. 

Alex has extensive experience in delivering and managing various types of projects, including digital transformation, IT strategy, design thinking transformation, mobile application development, complex system implementation and business process reengineering.

Alex received his Bachelor of Information Engineering and Master of Electronic Commerce from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). For more reference: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcmchan/

Registration and Enquiries:

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