Chris Peiris

Dr Chris Peiris’s information technology career spans over 25 years, last 15+ years dedicated to cybersecurity. Chris is an avid publisher and a thought leader in the cyber security, enterprise architecture and cloud integration space. He has advised Fortune 500 companies, Federal & State governments, Defence and Intelligence entities across USA, Asia Pacific Japan, Middle East Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Chris is a published author of 10 books on multiple technologies including Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Web Services, C#, and Java topics. These books have been translated to 9 languages (from English) and available in 30+ countries. He is also an academic researcher at Monash University and University and Canberra. Chris was awarded an Associate Professorship (Adjunct) fellowship at University of Canberra in recognition of academic research contributions to Cyber Security and Cloud Computing. He has multiple tertiary qualifications from Harvard University, University of Canberra and Monash University. He is an author of multiple academic research journals and frequent speaker at professional IT conferences.

Chris was the Director of Cybersecurity for Microsoft Asia Pacific Japan and Australia. He was also the National Security Lead for Avanade (Accenture and Microsoft joint venture) and advisor to multiple Defence and Intelligence think tanks. Chris has assisted creating “government wide secure threat management frameworks” in Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. He also created Incident Response, Security Operations Centre / Cyber Fusion Centre, Advisory Services and threat intelligence capabilities across Asia Pacific Japan, Middle East Africa and Americas.