Mr. Jason Lau, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Regional Leader for Hong Kong and Chief Information Security Officer, Crypto.com
Jason W. K. Lau has over 18 years in consulting experience for Fortune 500 companies in the fields of Management Consulting, Cyber Security, Compliance, IT Governance and Privacy.
Jason has traveled extensively and worked closely with government divisions in Australia, Switzerland, Singapore, USA and Hong Kong, where he most recently won the, “Hong Kong Cyber Security Professional Award”, co-organized by the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau of the HK Police Force, the HK Government Computer Emergency response Team, and the HK Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre.
Jason is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Crypto.com (www.Crypto.com), a global cryptocurrency mobile wallet, debit card and FinTech payment company, which completed a successful USD 28 Million ICO in 2017, and recently had a market cap of over USD 150 Million, where he is driving everything from ISO27001, PCI, to Cyber Security and Privacy programs, through to the new Cryptocurrency Security Standard (CCSS).
Prior to that, Jason was a regional Cyber Security Advisor at Microsoft, where he was leading Microsoft’s Cyber Security and Privacy/General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) initiatives and partnerships in the region, won Microsoft’s Champion Award and held the highest LinkedIn Index at Microsoft Asia; an influencer in the Top 1% of the Cyber Security Industry, and Top 1% in his Cyber Security network.
Prior to Microsoft, Jason had served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Security Officer, and Chief Operating Officer for a MNC IT company, managed regional P&L’s, and has also been an advisor with various startups in Australia, Hong Kong, Denmark and China.
Jason is active in the community, with several Non-Profit Organizations and is the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Regional Leader for Hong Kong, Co-Chairman for the IAPP Hong Kong Chapter, sits on the newly formed Advisory Group for the Hong Kong OGCIO Cyber Security initiative to promote cross industry collaboration, also a member of Hong Kong Cyberport’s Entrepreneurship Committee Advisory Group (ECAG), helping to provide Cyber Security / IT Governance and strategic mentorship to FinTech startups, and has provided Cyber Security guest speaker awareness training sessions at the University of Hong Kong (SPACE) and HK PolyU (Executive Masters in Digital Leadership), and a contributor to the University of Hong Kong’s new online FinTech course in Cyber Security/Privacy.
Jason holds a double degree, Bachelor of Engineering degree (Honours), a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and has completed Executive Programs at both Stanford and Harvard University.
Jason has also been a keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at numerous international cyber security and privacy industry events.
Jason holds the following certifications, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®) from (ISC)2, IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP®), Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe (CIPP/E®) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM®) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT®), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC®), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM®), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA®) from ISACA, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH®) and Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA®) from EC-Council, through to ITILv3 and being a Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) from the Scrum Alliance. Jason contributes to ISACA’s Global GDPR Working Group, ISC2’s GDPR Task Force, and was on Microsoft’s Global (GDPR) Field Team.