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ERIC TAN

ERIC TAN

Bangkok Link

Summary

Eric Tan is a highly experienced cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of expertise in IT and industrial security. He specializes in large-scale security project delivery, risk management, and strategic leadership across Southeast Asia. At TXOne Networks, Eric has deepened his expertise in industrial cybersecurity, focusing on protecting critical infrastructure from cyber threats. He has been instrumental in implementing native OT security solutions, ensuring seamless protection for industrial environments and supply chain security. His work emphasizes securing operational technology (OT), addressing challenges such as lack of operational downtime, industrial control system (ICS) vulnerabilities, and threat mitigation strategies. Eric has extensive technical proficiency across multiple security domains, including Data Protection, Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) CCOP2.0 framework, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 270002, CIS, Network Security, Firewalls, IPS, EDR, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, CASB, Web Proxy, DDoS Mitigation, OT Monitoring, and Managed Security Services. He also has expertise in Agile development and application security. Holding professional certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, and PMP, Eric demonstrates a commitment to industry’s best practices and continuous professional growth. His leadership style is defined by strategic vision, customer-centric solutions, and collaboration across internal and external teams. He takes a trusted advisor approach, ensuring security strategies align with business objectives while delivering functional and impactful security solutions. Eric’s reputation as a dedicated security leader is built on his ability to navigate complex cybersecurity challenges, drive innovation in OT security, and foster trusted relationships across the industry.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Senior Regional Security Engineer

TXONE Networks
05.2024 - Current
  • Build Opportunities by technical Pitch and demonstrating capabilities
  • Team Lead in sales engineering for Southeast Asia focusing on Singapore and Indonesia and Thailand.
  • Part of a high-performance team, that focuses on ICS and OT Cybersecurity solutions to help customers defend against attack on critical infrastructure.
  • Communicate, Understand and Propose TXONE’s solutions at all levels within a customer organization.
  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations to explain product features and benefits to clients. Conduct product demonstrations and provide technical support.
  • Developed architecture designs, engineering bill of materials, and implementation specifications for ICS and OT cybersecurity solutions.
  • Build positive relationships with partners and customers in helping them address their cybersecurity challenges.
  • Conduct Training for partners
  • Present in key Events and workshops
  • Proven technical capability with in-depth knowledge of IT/OT domains of cybersecurity.
  • Team player and ability to work independently to fulfil team objectives and create technical wins.
  • Contributed to the winning of Major Account in Singapore for a key multinational manufacturing Plant in Singapore total valued at 3 million USD over 3 years utilizing TXONE suite of solutions.
  • Singapore Critical infrastructure business totaling 1 million SGD in FY2024.
  • Tradeshow events presenter for TXONE Asian events in Indonesia and OTCEP 2024. Presenting in CyberSEC Event on Strategies for protecting ICS.
  • Eric has the strength and ability to meet timelines and provide value added services to customer’s pain points by proposing fit for purpose solutions.
  • While acting as a trusted advisor advocating TXONE Network solutions. Eric also Participated in workshops and many events to promote and create awareness in the OT cyber security industry.

Senior Cyber Security Manager

Thales Cyber Defense
01.2021 - 05.2024
  • Conduct presentations on Cybersecurity solutions and services, emphasizing Thales Cyber Security OT SOC services.
  • Actively engaged in Solutions Design workshops within the Cyber Security domain.
  • Identify, partner with, and onboard technology partners for the CDS Team. Offer collaborative solutions to customers through strategic channel and partner alliances.
  • Perform thorough Security Design reviews and risk assessments of critical systems.
  • Complex Bids related to Cybersecurity, specifically in the Air, Land, and Sea domains where Thales competes, focusing on Defense, Air Traffic Management, and Automated Border Management Systems.
  • CSA's Cybersecurity Challenge in 2021.
  • Privacy information Tokenization on Demand for a collaboration with a local medical institution to develop a PII protection and tokenization solution for the medical cluster in Singapore.
  • Actively participated in agile practices, including Scrum meetings and product sprints, emphasizing collaboration.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor in Cyber/IT security, supporting IT and business stakeholders. Work across different business lines, providing tailored Cyber Security advice based on customer requirements.
  • Formulate Cyber/IT security solutions and services integral to the scoping and bidding for various projects.
  • Provide guidance on the appropriate security solutions to be included in tender proposals. Support bid managers in addressing the cyber-security requirements of potential business lead.
  • Successfully won the Data protection project as part of the winning team of the CSA’s Cyber security Challenge 2022.
  • Successfully formulated and designed best of breed cyber solutions suitable for securing systems that Thales operates and offers to different domains.
  • On board 4 Partners successfully as part of the Cyber Security solutions that Thales offers for its customers and increasing its portfolio of services.
  • Credited by Customer for significant contributions to the successful development of PITOD project overcoming challenges.
  • Participation in Events and tradeshows for Presentations.

Senior Security Sales Engineering Specialist SEA

BT Security
10.2017 - 09.2021
  • Lead Pre-sales Engagements: lead in various pre-sales engagements for BT portfolio products, specifically focusing on Managed Cybersecurity Platform and Security Solutions.
  • Collaboration on Cloud SIEM/Managed SIEM: Collaborate with Sales and product teams to address Cloud SIEM/Managed SIEM solutions. Understand, propose, and contribute to the development of solutions tailored for the Southeast Asia region.
  • Act as the Regional Security Presales representative, actively working on exploring and expanding into new market segments within Southeast Asia.
  • Assist in the design of technical security solutions for technical bids, particularly in the commercial sector within Southeast Asia.
  • Major focus on providing security solutions for the Banking, Transportation, and Resource sectors.
  • Part of the winning team for a major shipping company with cloud CASB solution worth 1million USD in 2020. Contract for 3 years. Involved in initial setup of PII detection for the customer.
  • Part of the winning team for a new regional transport Hub project worth 2 million USD for 3 years contract in 2019. The project consists of firewall and Network access Control solution.
  • Supported and led a winning RFP for an enterprise project in 2020 for Secure Private access using Zscaler Private Access.
  • Establish and work with Channel partners with good understanding of a channel-centric go to market approach.
  • Conducted Security Gap Assessment and CIS assessments.

Head IT Security Implementations (SG & SEA)

BT Security
12.2011 - 09.2017
  • Responsible for leading the Professional Services team, supporting managed security services, managing service delivery for a major commercial customer, driving security product selection and delivery, collaborating with the Sales/Presales team, and fostering team building and mentoring within the organization.
  • Leads the Professional Services team responsible for security implementation services and BT’s threat monitoring services in Southeast Asia.
  • Supports Managed Security Services, specifically BT’s Advance Threat Detection (ATD), to meet the security requirements of Southeast Asia.
  • Manages service delivery for a major commercial customer, focusing on Vulnerability Assessment, Cyber Threat Monitoring, SIEM use-case development, and incident response. These services are provided as a managed service to a financial institution in Singapore.
  • Initiates, identifies, and drives the selection and delivery of security products in Southeast Asia. This includes Next-Generation Firewalls (NG FW/IPS), SIEM solutions, Anti-Virus tools, log management solutions, firewall tools, and vulnerability assessment tools, as well as malware detection tools.
  • Works closely with the Sales/Presales team to fulfil customer requirements. This involves project planning, determining the scope of work, and resource planning, including engagement with third-party partners.
  • Participated in winning and successfully implemented a multi-site deployment of the largest DDOS project in Singapore and received commendation letter from the customer in successful deployment of the solution from Oct 2014 to Apr 2015.
  • Successful completion of a multi-year project on end point and IPS project for one of Gov ministries- 2010 - 2014.
  • Successfully Implementation of Vulnerability Assessment scanning tool throughout Southeast Asia for a commercial customer.
  • Implemented Vulnerability Assessment process and guidelines for operations team.
  • Successfully set up and manage the Security break-fix and operational Maintenance team in 2013 to deliver Break-Fix Support in the region.
  • Led 18 engineers in Post Sales delivery and consulting of large-scale enterprise security projects > 300k.

Education

BSC - information Technology

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Advanced Diploma - undefined

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Diploma - Electronics Comm

Singapore Polytechnic

Cambridge 'O' Level - undefined

Bedok View Secondary School

Skills

Security information and event management

Certification

PMP, 01/01/11

Timeline

Senior Regional Security Engineer

TXONE Networks
05.2024 - Current

Senior Cyber Security Manager

Thales Cyber Defense
01.2021 - 05.2024

Senior Security Sales Engineering Specialist SEA

BT Security
10.2017 - 09.2021

Head IT Security Implementations (SG & SEA)

BT Security
12.2011 - 09.2017

Advanced Diploma - undefined

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Diploma - Electronics Comm

Singapore Polytechnic

Cambridge 'O' Level - undefined

Bedok View Secondary School

BSC - information Technology

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
ERIC TAN