Ken Soh
Athena Dynamics (BH Global) / CEO
Ken Soh holds concurrent appointments as Group CIO of BH Global since 3 March 2014 and as the founding CEO of the award-wining cyber security consulting company Athena Dynamics since 15 July 2014.He also serves as Chair for the Cyber Security Chaptor in SGTech, a 40-year-old technology trade association in Singapore.
Ken has more than 30 years of working experience in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industry. He has been an avid industry thought leadership speaker and writer and has contributed hundreds of thought leadership speaking engagements and papers in industry conferences, press and media.
He holds a Master of Science in Computer Studies (AI) with distinction award from the University of Essex (UK); and a Master of Business Administration (eMBA) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), a joint programme between Nanyang Business School of NTU and University of California, Berkeley.
Premiere: 4/15 13:20 - 13:50
Replays: 4/15 19:20 - 19:50, 4/16 01:20 - 01:50
Since BIMCO (The Baltic and International Maritime Council) first published its cyber security guidelines in 2016 and IMO’s (The International Maritime Organization) “Resolution MSC.428(98)” Maritime Cyber Risk Management guidelines in 2017, the maritime sector saw gradual progression of cyber safety awareness. Subsequently, OCIMF (the Oil Companies International Marine Forum) published its cyber safety chapters in its Ship Inspection Report Programme in 2018. This was followed by IACS’ (International Association of Classification Societies) technical guidelines in 2021 which stipulated all new builds in 2024 onwards to be cyber compliant.
While cyber incidents are not uncommon in the maritime sector, mostly are still within the IT on-shore and off-shore scenarios. What about the so-called moving and floating OT onboard rigs and vessels?
A live journey of this observation will be shared in this presentation in a bid to raise the awareness and to recommend the focused areas for maritime cyber going forward.