Virgilio Viegas, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CEH, has more than 25 years of experience in the banking sector, having worked in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Currently he is the Group Head of International IT Security in one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East and Africa with a strong presence across Europe, Africa and Asia.
Virgilio previously worked for more than 20 years for a major Portuguese financial institution, where he participated in the design and implementation of a Internet services reference platform and later developed an information security reference architecture.
While working in Asia, Virgilio developed projects related to information security, compliance, and retail such as Internet banking, ATM and POS network implementation, issuing and acquiring international card schemes, anti-money laundering, customer fingerprint authentication, amongst others. He also supported projects with significant impact in the Timor-Leste financial sector such as the definition of the country International Bank Account Number (IBAN) standard, the implementation of the Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS), and the national ATM and POS switch.
Oben Kuyucu, CISSP, CISA, has 15 years of experience in IT security, cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, and PCI DSS, as well as other international standards and regulations. Currently, he is an IT Security Governance and Oversight Senior Analyst at one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East and Africa.Oben previously worked as Senior Information Security Expert and PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) at a leading information security company in Turkey. He was the first PCI 3DSecure Assessor and one of the first PCI QSAs in Turkey, and he carried out more than 150 IT security-related engagements, mainly related to PCI DSS and ISO 27001 internal audits. Throughout his career Oben has performed PCIDSS auditing, system administration, design, penetration testing, security analysis, consulting, pre-sales activities and post-sales support for companies in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He also has made a significant contribution to many information security projects, including providing support to a PCI SSC Approved Scanning Vendor portal and transforming it into a governance, risk, and compliance vulnerability management tool.