Steven Sim has worked for more than 25 years in the cybersecurity field with large end-user enterprises and critical infrastructures, undertaken global CISO role, driven award-winning CSO50 security governance and management initiatives and headed incident response, security architecture, technology, awareness and operations at local, regional and global levels. He leads cybersecurity across large MNC, heading 8 direct reports at Group Cybersecurity Department as well as indirect reports across regional offices and local business units in 42 countries.

Prior to co-founding CI-ISAC Australia in 2022, Scott worked as the Regional Intelligence Officer for FS-ISAC, (2019-2022) where he was responsible for leading threat intelligence fusion for the global financial sector in APAC. Scott’s shift to the private sector followed over a decade in academia at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia. Scott’s journey to academia followed a stint (2006-08) at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) critical infrastructure protection directorate (CIPD), where he was Lead Analyst responsible for banking and finance and oil and gas sectors. There, Scott authored national threat assessments and delivered assessments to key state government and private sector CI owners and operators. Scott is regularly engaged as a subject matter expert by governments, international private sector MNEs, universities, and think tanks.