WIBF’s Global Panel – Understanding New Cybersecurity Risks & Threats in Banking and Finance

About this event

Gain invaluable perspectives from industry leaders and cybersecurity experts on emerging risks and threats facing the banking and finance sector in the coming year. Explore the latest advancements in cybersecurity technology, including AI-driven threat detection, blockchain security, and proactive defence mechanisms tailored for financial institutions. Stay informed about regulatory changes and compliance requirements affecting the banking and finance sector, ensuring that your organisation remains fully compliant with evolving standards.

Our Speakers

Senior Manager Cyber Security & Data Privacy - EY Annabel Dalby

Annabel is a Senior Manager in EY's Financial Services Cybersecurity Consulting practice, based in London.

With over a decade at EY, including secondments in the US and Spain, Annabel leads client engagements and drives business development activity across Cybersecurity and Data Privacy.

Annabel recognises that staying ahead of cyber risks and privacy threats requires a global mindset and diversity of thought.

Head of IT Security - IG Group Kevin Gourlay

Kevin has over 20 Years of experience in security delivering technical and leadership roles.

In his current role at IG Group, he leads the IT security capability and is accountable for security operations, security engineering, application security, privilege access and identity access.

Prior to IG, Kevin has held various roles delivering managed security services and operating in central government. He also had a 15-year career in the Royal Air Force operating in various roles aligned with telecommunications and IT security.

Kevin is currently studying an Executive MBA in Leadership & Senior Management (part-time) at Cranfield University, which takes him far beyond security and the world of cyber.

Senior Global Alliances Manager - Amazon Web Services Calum Davis

Calum Davis is the Senior Global Alliances Manager at Amazon Web Services and WiBF’s Board Observer. He helps Asia based technology companies (such as Atlassian and Canva) expand internationally and deliver new products to market.

Prior to Amazon he worked in Microsoft's incubation organization, building out new businesses in advertising, cloud infrastructure and mobile device management.

Calum has 15 years of experience in the tech sector leading teams to invent for tomorrow. He is passionate about how automation will affect the future of work (again).

Senior Manager of Application Security, Westpac Group Bernard Cacayan

Bernard Cacayan is the Senior Manager of Application Security for the Westpac Group where he leads a high performing team responsible for ensuring software developers deliver secure applications at scale.

With over 15 years of cybersecurity experience in a major Australian bank, Bernard has driven success across all cybersecurity domains. Between 2017 and 2021, Bernard was the Lead Information Security Architect where he drove the technical direction of Westpac's next generation of cyber security capabilities and significantly improved the bank's ability to manage cyber risk. Prior to this, Bernard spent over 7 years defending Westpac's systems and customers from cyber threats in a variety of operations, incident response and consulting roles.

Bernard is a passionate lifelong learner since graduating with a Bachelor of Information Technology (with honors) from the University Sydney in 2006. He enjoys solving problems using technology and inspires the people around him to do the same.