Lim Thian Chin
Deputy Director, Head of CII Protection
Critical Information Infrastructure Division, Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, Singapore

Lim Thian Chin is currently the Head of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Protection at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). He leads a team that is responsible for building the cyber resiliency of the Nation’s essential services across 11 CII sectors covering government, utilities, transport and services clusters.  His team works closely with sectoral regulators to strengthen the cyber resilience of CIIs, promotes confidence building measures and to deepen the public-private partnership between the government and CII stakeholders. 

Mr Lim has over 16 years of experience in Information & Technology governance, risk management, resilience and compliance, and Operational Technology cybersecurity.  Prior to joining CSA in August 2015, he was responsible for the regional Technology Governance function in United Overseas Bank. He also led the Technology Risk function in GIC from 2008 – 2013. In his earlier years, he was a Manager and had led a team of auditors in Information Technology in Ernst & Young.

Thian Chin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and is an alumnus of the George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He is certified as a CGEIT, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, CISA and SABSA practitioner.