Fawad Bayunus

Cluster Head, Information Security Risk Officer Standard Chartered Bank

Having over 18 years of experience with demonstrated success and accomplishments in Big4 & financial institutions. He is a specialist with a focus on composing and implementing security policies & procedures, performing security maturity assessments, conducting security audits, ensuring security control compliance, and leading security transformation projects.

Fawad is privileged with diversified experience having worked in compliance, risk, technology & audit functions for different organisations. He has been a regional security lead for The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ. - Oceania and Information Technology Security Officer (ITSO) for ABN AMRO Clearing Bank – APAC.

He has also worked as a compliance specialist for Westpac bank, IT Risk Assurance & Security specialist for ING Bank, security assurance expert at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia. Other organisations include Askari Bank Limited, Samba Bank Limited, Silk Bank Limited and Aussie Forex & Finance.

He is a Masters in Information & Technology from the university of Canberra and holds certificate courses in cybersecurity, Info. System Audit, Operational Risk, Compliance and many others.

He is passionate about cybersecurity and believes that meaningful language for the “c-suite” and continuous learning for security specialists is the key to any organisation’s cybersecurity capability enhancement.