Ian Yip

Current

Managing Consultant at Leafidity
CBO at blog.ianyip.com

Past

Product Management and Strategy at Pirean
Principal Solutions Architect, EMEA at Verdasys
Senior Security, Identity and Access Management Consultant at IBM

Senior Security Consultant at IBM Business Consulting Services
Application Support Analyst at IBM Global Services
Desktop Deployment Specialist at IBM Global Services
Developer at Macquarie Bank

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Education

University of New South Wales

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Ian Yip’s Summary

Experienced Information Security Consultant focusing on working with customers to strategise, architect, design, inform and advise on Security solutions and strategy. My areas of expertise are in the following areas:
* Identity and Access Management (IAM/IDM)
* Data Security and Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)
* Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC)

Most of my experience has been in a customer facing sales and architecture capacity, although I have a background in Information Security services and have previously worked on consulting/implementation engagements and projects in Security, Identity and Access Management.

I have also spent a sizable amount of time recently working in the Data Security arena, predominantly around Data Leakage Prevention (aka Information/Data Loss Prevention) solutions, strategies and architectures.

I blog regularly (http://blog.ianyip.com) and have co-authored an IBM Redbook on Identity Management.

Ian Yip’s Specialties:

Identity and Access Management (IAM/IDM), Data Security, Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), Application Security, User Centric Identity, Federated Identity, Digital and Online Identity, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC).

Ian Yip’s Experience

Managing Consultant

Leafidity

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Location: London, United Kingdom

Enterprise Information Security strategy consulting focusing on Identity, Access, Governance and Data Security.
CBO

blog.ianyip.com

(Internet industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Location: Wherever I happen to be

OK so this isn't a real job, at least not one that pays me anything. However, it feels like a full time job at times.

It's my professional blog and hence focuses on Information Security. You'll find ideas, thoughts, opinions, news and the occasional interview and survey.

People who read and subscribe include executives, key decision makers, influential security experts, industry analysts, journalists and professional security practitioners. Some of my friends do as well, but they never actually read anything.

As for what CBO means, just insert your own interpretation of what the "B" might be.
Product Management and Strategy

Pirean

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — November 2008 (7 months)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Responsible for Product Strategy, Management and Marketing.
Principal Solutions Architect, EMEA

Verdasys

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Responsible for working with existing and potential customers across EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) to address their data security requirements and protect sensitive data across the enterprise dealing with issues including data classification and data leakage prevention (aka information/data loss prevention).
Senior Security, Identity and Access Management Consultant

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2004 — February 2007 (3 years )

Location: Sydney, Australia

Security Sales Engineer working with customers to provide Identity and Access Management solutions leveraging the Tivoli Security Suite of products.
Senior Security Consultant

IBM Business Consulting Services

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2002 — March 2004 (2 years )

Location: Sydney, Australia

Security Consultant working in the Security & Privacy Services Consulting group. Have spent time on various engagements with a particular focus on Enterprise Identity and Access Management and Application Design and Integration (Java/J2EE). Roles performed on different projects include developer, team leader, architect and subject matter expert.
Application Support Analyst

IBM Global Services

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Member of the Application Support Group (ASG) which provided production support and handled requests of work for a major Australian telecommunications organisation. This involved supporting the most mission critical systems used by the client. These systems were central to the customer maintenance, connection maintenance and billing, payment and collection processes of the client and used an underlying Oracle database. As a result, a particular focus of this role involved performing development and maintenance of the underlying database, data and supporting middleware components.
Desktop Deployment Specialist

IBM Global Services

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — March 2001 (3 months)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Worked on the rollout and deployment of a desktop standard operating environment (SOE) environment for a major Australian bank. This included installation of required components and training of users post implementation.
Developer

Macquarie Bank

(Public Company; MBL; Investment Banking industry)

December 1999 — March 2000 (4 months)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Worked on a project implementing an online leasing system using Java, JavaBeans, Sybase, Servlets and JSPs (Java Server Pages).
This included performing the following:
* Interface design and implementation.
* Client walk-throughs.
* Detailed system requirements reviews.
* Re-engineering the design of the system.
* Database design and implementation.
* Object Oriented design and implementation of the business classes.

Ian Yip’s Education

University of New South Wales

Honours , Software Engineering , 1997 — 2000

Activities and Societies:

President Software Engineering Society

Additional Information

Ian Yip’s Websites:

Ian Yip’s Groups:

Information Security Expert Center
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Information Security Community
UNSW Alumni
Identity Management Specialists Group
Identity & Access Management
Friends of Australia
IBM co/ex workers independent group
League of IAM Architects/Consultants
Information Security Experts
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Information Security Network
Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC)
IBM Tivoli Software
Identity Management Group
Enterprise Identity Management
UNSW COMPUTING
UK Information Security Professionals Group
InfoSec Careers
Information Security Careers Network
IBM Security
Cloud Security Alliance