Sheung Chi Ng

Sheung-chi Ng is the Sr. Security Consulting Manager for SafeNet Asia. He is responsible for pre-sales and post-sales technical support covering all sales and marketing around Asia Pacific. He also oversees a team of Sales Engineer for technical and pre-sales support for SafeNet’s commercial data protection portfolio in the region. He has joined SafeNet Asia as Security Consultant since 2005 and possesses solid knowledge in both mobile and internet security from solution development/architect to system review/analysis. Prior to SafeNet, he held technical consultant role in several multi-national IT security vendors such as Betrusted (now Verizon) and PrivyLink. He was also one of the members of Center of Wireless Information Technology (CenWIT) in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He had contributed to develop a new algorithm in the cellular receiver to reduce the power consumption and complexity, which was filed in US patent in 1997. Besides, he joined the New Concept Implementation Group of Nokia Research Center in Finland in developing one of the world first testbeds for 3rd generation wireless communication system. Apart from his knowledge in mobile communication, he acquires solid knowledge in information security by participating in various information security projects such as fingerprint recognition algorithm development, PDA-based mobile internet security platform protocol design, WAP-based security platform development and Smart-Card-based or HSM-based PKI application development. He was the Chief Architect of the first commercial WPKI solution in Hong Kong. He has invented the first WML script-based pin security solution for a local bank in Hong Kong and also developed a XML security gateway deployed in Macau. He participated in IT solution security review for Hong Kong Government and a Singaporean investment bank as well as critical IT security projects for banks and government around Asia Pacific. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree and Master of Philosophy degree, from Electrical and Electronic Engineering department in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also received a Diploma degree of Information and Internet security from The City University of Hong Kong. He is now a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information System Auditor (CISA).