Narinrit Prem

Mr Narinrit Prem (aka A.Fon) is a cybersecurity expert with more than 20 years of experience. He has extensive and full-range of experience from system security analysis, penetration testing, process & policy development and IT-related legislation development. He is a well-known speaker in this topic in both national and international arena. He had shared knowledge to the industry through number of seminars and TV programs & NEWS.

​After he educated from the faculty of computer engineering of Assumption University, he started his career as oil & gas production automation engineer of an American company operating in the middle of the Thai gulf. Then he joined one of the world largest and legendary IT company, IBM, and that was where he started his cybersecurity consulting career. He had a chance to exchange knowledge and experience with ethical hacker from all over the world once he was sent to IBM campus in NY-USA. After that he came back and provided ethical hacking service for IBM Thailand’s client as the 1st ethical hacker of IBM Thailand.

Afterward, he had a chance to join Thailand largest energy corporation, PTT Group. That was when he got his title as “CSO” or Chief Security Officer and was the first officially appointed CSO in PTT Group in the whole group’s history. In 2010, he was awarded with “ASEAN CSO Award” by IDG together with Vietnam Government. And in the same year, he was awarded with “ISLA Award” or Information Security Leadership Award by world-renowned information security association, (ISC)2.

Mr Prem specializes in cyber investigation and digital evidence analysis, so he was appointed as an advisor for technology-related trial for The Department of Special Investigation or DSI. He was also appointed as the first group of cybersecurity advisors to The Defence Information and Space Technology Department, Ministry of Defence. He has been contributing as committee and subcommittee for number of organizations. He also received number of royal honorary symbols for himself and his family’s honor.

​Recently, he is a member of “Future Think Tank” of Royal Thai Armed Forced to provide futuristic analysis and provide advice for national strategy to accommodate the forthcoming events effectively.

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