Management Team



Behind every successful enterprise lies a Client-focused, dedicated, knowledgeable and honest management team.

We at believe you should have confidence that our management team will work to deliver quality work for every Client. ThinkSECURE is led by the following senior officers :

CHRISTOPHER LOW
OSSA, OSWA, OSWAP, OPST, GSEC, CISSP, SISP, TCI, CCSE
Certified OSSA Trainer #CT18274102
Certified OSWA Trainer #OW126H111
Certified OSWAP Trainer #WP312L001

Christopher started his career in 1993 with Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), a government organization involved in the regulation of telecommunications in Singapore (formerly known as NCB). His role in IDA, involved the development and implementation of large-scale government projects.

After accruing three years of enterprise application development experience, he decided to specialize in network and application security. Apart from providing regular security update sessions for his counterparts as well as conducting security and system audits, he was also involved in Census 2000, a nation-wide project, where he spearheaded the infrastructure and security setup of the entire operation. In addition to his role in this critical project, he was also ITPA to an extremely senior government official.

Prior to setting up ThinkSECURE, Christopher worked at Sensecurity Institute as a technology director, which allowed him to continue his involvement in the areas of security consultancy, security testing and security product deployment for a wide array of private and public sector organizations. His experience covers a wide array of security fields such as biometrics, authentication systems, network- and host-based intrusion systems all the way to Single-Sign-On (SSO) solutions.

One of his passions in the training arena is to improve the overall security skillset of security professionals across all industries. As one of the two creators of the Organizational Systems Security Analyst™ (OSSA) enterprise-security certification programme, a highly practical Enterprise-level IT-Security certification programme which equips technical staff with the skills and capability to defend their organizations' IT network and systems against internal and external threats, he infuses his classes with experiences drawn from his real-world consulting experience and knowledge. Christopher has also created various free security tools while at ThinkSECURE such as Probemapper™ and MoocherHunter™ and is also a co-author of the 3rd Edition of the book "Hacking Exposed: Linux".

Christopher is a frequent speaker at various security conferences covering broad ranging topics from web security to open source security and has been featured in the press. Christopher was the Co-Creator, with Julian Ho, and Chief Judge of the BlackOPS:HackAttack 2004 Challenge, an attack-and-defend hacking competition simulating organizations under threat in the areas of wireless- & wired-connectivity and applications. Held in August 2004 at Singapore NICC's PACE2004 event in Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Center, this internationally-reported event drew teams of Security Professionals from Brunei, China, Myanmar and Singapore and was covered by the Associated Press and ChannelNewsAsia, amongst others. Building on this, in August 2005, he and Julian Ho conceived, planned and implemented AIRRAID, Asia’s First-Ever Wireless Hacking Tournament. This event drew interest from Brunei, France, Malaysia and Singapore and was featured in both the IT-Security world and mainstream media. Their follow-up custom-designed wireless hacking event, AIRRAID2, was held in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2008 and was Thailand's first ever security tournament of any kind. In October 2010, he co-designed and organized AIRRAID3, Asia's largest integrated wireless/wired/application IT-security/hacking tournament which was run at Singapore Polytechnic and which drew 41 registrations from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

JULIAN HO
OSSA, OSWA, OSWAP, OPST, CISSP, SISP, MAISP, CCNA, A+
Certified OSSA Trainer #CT18274101
Certified OSWA Trainer #OW126H110
Certified OSWAP Trainer #WP313H002

Julian has extensive security experience in telecommunication and IT consultancy in the Asia Pacific and the United States. He has also been featured in the Straits Times and on Newsradio 93.8, discussing various security-related issues. He was responsible for the security management of the public data network infrastructure at StarHub, a Singapore-based telco with a multi-platform environment consisting of numerous routers, switches, servers and core telco devices. His experience in this field includes security policy planning & implementation, network/systems auditing & lockdown, development & consolidation of security overlay network design, Incident Response and threat-research/prioritization.

Julian was also primarily responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of security and operations for AsiaPac's largest hotspot deployment: StarHub's Wireless Hotzones in Changi International Airport Terminals 1 & 2 and Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Centre, totaling 100+ enterprise/carrier-class access points, routers, switches, SSGs and servers.

Julian's international work experience includes work at KPMG Consulting Pte Ltd, Western Digital, Songy Partners Limited/Songy Partners Realty Ltd (USA) and Standard Chartered Bank (London & Hong Kong). He was part of a special project team at Standard Chartered (Hong Kong) deploying a key internal ERP system, and providing system administrator and end-user training, while at Songy Partners Limited, a US$100 million-capitalized REIT, he successfully managed and implemented their HQ's network, systems and applications migration, from Boca Raton, FL, to Atlanta, GA.

Julian has leveraged his extensive international and local work experience into the creation and development of the Organizational Systems Security Analyst™ (OSSA) Enterprise Security Certification Programme, the Organizational Systems Wireless Auditor® (OSWA) Wireless Auditing Certification Programme and the Open Source Wireless Integration Security Professional™ (OSWiSP) Secure Wireless Deployment Training Programme. Along with releasing the WEP-Client-Communications-Dumbdown (WCCD) vulnerability in Dec 2005, he also developed and released the free Practical Wireless Deployment Methodology (PWDM).

Julian created and maintains the OSWA™-Assistant wireless auditing toolkit, which was awarded BEST in the "Wireless Testing" category and RECOMMENDED / EXCELLENT under the "LiveCDs" category by Security-Database.com in their “Best IT Security and Auditing Softwares 2007” article. This free specialized wireless auditing toolkit was also distributed at both BlackHat and DEFCON 2008 in Las Vegas by the famous Wall-Of-Sheep team as their official LiveCD distribution for that year. He is also part of ThinkSECURE's free MoocherHunter™ wireless tracking tool development team.

Julian was the Co-Creator, together with Christopher Low, and GameMaster of the BlackOPS:HackAttack 2004 Challenge, an attack-and-defend hacking competition simulating organizations under threat in the areas of wireless- & wired-connectivity and applications. Held in August 2004 at Singapore NICC's PACE2004 event in Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Center, this internationally-reported event drew teams of Security Professionals from Brunei, China, Myanmar and Singapore and was covered by the Associated Press and ChannelNewsAsia, amongst others. Building on this, in August 2005, he and Christopher Low conceived, planned and implemented AIRRAID, Asia’s First-Ever Wireless Hacking Tournament. This event drew interest from Brunei, France, Malaysia and Singapore and was featured in both the IT-Security world and mainstream media. Their follow-up custom-designed wireless hacking event, AIRRAID2, was held in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2008 and was Thailand's first ever security tournament of any kind. In October 2010, he co-designed and organized AIRRAID3, Asia's largest integrated wireless/wired/application IT-security/hacking tournament which was run at Singapore Polytechnic and which drew 41 registrations from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

Julian holds a Joint-Honours Degree in Business Studies and Law from Edinburgh University in the UK and is also a co-author of the 3rd Edition of the book "Hacking Exposed: Linux".