HKSQ Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022/2023 was
held on 18th Aug 2023 both online and onsite in CityU. We invited Blackpanda
representative to give us AGM Seminar. Many exco and former exco members joined
the AGM and we took a group photo.
In the beginning, Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ)
briefed the chairman report 2024/2025 and reviewed different activities of HKSQ
in the past year.
I took a photo with Dr. Jack Wu during
registration.
Then Minda come and joined AGM.
We were honor to have Prof. PUN Kit Fai (HKSQ oversea
representative) and his family (Ms. Rebecca Yiu and Mr. PUN Ka Hei) to join HKSQ
AGM and Seminar as well as dinner.
Then our Hon. Treasurer Dr. Mandict Wong reported
HKSQ financial status. We had a very healthy financial situation and some
income last year.
Afterwards, the AGM seminar began. Our guest
speaker was Mr. Tim Toa (Regional Director of DFIR (Digital Forensics &
Incident Response), Blackpanda) and his presentation topic named “Cyber Crisis
Management – Insights from Digital Firefighters”. In the beginning, he said top
two industries employed their service were Banking & Finance and Manufacturing.
Then he mentioned three common myths about
hacking including target size, skills required and antivirus protection. Explains misconceptions that high skills are not required in the age of
AI, regardless of company size, and that antivirus software cannot fully
protect.
After that he took us top 5 root causes. The
most common was weak password!
Finally, he stated the business impact and eight
steps of Ransomware attract.
1.
Find the Open Doors!
2.
Find the Keys!
3.
Find the Money Safe!
4.
Destroy the Backup Servers!
5.
Install Backdoor!
6.
Burn Down Your House!
7.
Steal All the Money! Burn Down Your
Garden!
8.
Show You What I’ve Got!
Lastly, Mr. George Wong (Business Development
Director, Blackpanda) introduced their new service named IR-1 which was
maintenance service for protecting company devices before attract and suitable
for SMEs to due with cyber emergency.
After the seminar, Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman) and
Ms. Angela Wong (Vice chairman) took a photo with two speakers.
We then took a group photo with all onsite
participants.
At the end, HKSQ exco members, members and guests had dinner together.