Dato’ Ts. Dr. Haji Amirudin Abdul Wahab is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CyberSecurity Malaysia, the agency that monitors e-sovereignty of the country. He has more than 25 years of ICT working experience in the telecom and IT sector in the Government as well as in the semi-government and private sectors. During his leadership as CEO, Cybersecurity Malaysia (CSM) managed to contribute to Malaysia’s achievement in attaining top 10 ranking in the world, at International Telecom Union (ITU) Global Cyber Security Index studies and became first Malaysian to chair World Trustmark Alliance (2014-2015). CSM was awarded as Best Cyber Security Innovation Award 2015 recipient by FireEye Malaysia and won Champion Prizes at the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) for 2 consecutive years (2016 & 2017). He was also selected to receive an ASEAN Award as the Outstanding Chief Information/Security Officer in conjunction with the 10th ASEAN CIO| CSO Summit and Awards 2014 held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amir also spearheaded various national and international Cyber security platforms such as serving as the cyber security co-chair in the Cybersecurity working Group for Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) since 2015, as Permanent Secretariat to Organisation of Islamic Conference Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC- CERT) since
2013, Deputy Chair to Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (AP-CERT) for 2015-2019. He is a Canadian-based POLCYB (The Society of The Policing of Cyberspace) Non-Executive Board of Directors for year 2015 to 2018. He served as an OIC Task Force Memberon ICT and Cyber Security and a Fellow at Malaysian Institute of Management.
Nationally, Dato’ Ts. Dr. Amirudin is currently the Chairman of National ICT StandardCommittee (ISCG) since Mar 2010; Chairman of Board of Governance Global Accredited Cyber Security Education or Global ACE Scheme for Malaysia Chapter and past Head of Secretariat to the National IT Council NITC chaired by YAB PM from 2010-2012. He is currently a Board Member of Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) IT Sdn Bhd since 2016.