Virgilio Viegas

Virgilio Viegas, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CEH, CCISO, has more than 25 years of experience in the banking sector,

having worked in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Currently, he is the Senior Vice President of international IT security at one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East and Africa, with a strong presence across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Virgilio previously worked for more than 20 years for a major Portuguese financial institution, where he participated in the design and implementation of an Internet services reference platform and later developed an information security reference architecture.

While working in Asia, Virgilio developed projects related to information security, compliance, and retail, such as Internet banking, ATM and POS network implementation, issuing and acquiring international card schemes, anti-money laundering, and customer fingerprint authentication. He also supported projects with significant impact in the Timor-Leste financial sector, such as the definition of the country’s International Bank Account Number (IBAN) standard, the implementation of the real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), and the national ATM and POS switch.