Po Yau

Po was born and educated in Wales, UK before going to Royal Holloway, University of London. It was during his year-in-industry placement, when responding to an incident to recover from a cyber attack, that started a journey of over 20 years in information security. Currently broadening to multiple types of technology and operational risk in the Financial sector, looking for ways to improve risk management, governance and communication to promote innovation and work with the ever changing ways of working. Po continues to passionately support both current and next generation information security professionals, as part of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway. Engagements include European research programmes and numerous publications and two previous patents. He is currently teaching a distance learning module on application security and completing a PhD on ad hoc network security. Other related interests include: service design and UX (including coding again with PowerApps). Keen volunteer for Crisis at Christmas homeless shelters, helping to run IT cafes, organise activities and support guests.