When computing graduate Claudean Zheng was looking for a job during her final year at the National University of Singapore, she came across an opening for an IT consultant at EY that paved the way for her career in cyber security.
She was called up for an interview, during which she showed her knack for hacking when she was asked about how she would break into an application. At the time, she had no experience in cyber security, but was somehow able to provide her interviewer with answers on how to circumvent the existing controls in the application.
Zheng eventually landed her first job at EY, but in a role that would see her take on projects related to cyber security. She received training in areas such as extreme hacking before she went on to secure industry certifications such as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) granted by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)².
From EY, Zheng progressed in her cyber security career, including stints at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, a China-based financial technology company and her current role as the Asia-Pacific head of technology risk and controls at…
