Ensign InfoSecurity (Ensign), one of Asia Pacific’s largest pure-play cybersecurity firms has appointed 19-year cybersecurity and IT industry veteran and founding member of the Ensign team Tammie Tham as Chief Executive Officer. Tham takes over from outgoing interim CEO Mr Yeoh Keat Chuan (KC), who shall remain on Ensign’s board of directors.

Tham had been working as Ensign’s Executive Vice President for its Enterprise & Services Group, where she oversaw and managed its enterprise business portfolio. The portfolio included professional services, designing and building of enterprise-wide cybersecurity solutions, and managed security services.

Prior to Ensign, Tammie has worked with Accel Systems & Technologies as CEO and founder of the cybersecurity systems integrator. She has also held senior leadership roles at other leading companies like BT Frontline, IBM and Netrust.

Tham shared how in the past year, Ensign has consolidated different leading firms into an integrated end-to-end cybersecurity provider offering consulting, implementation and managed services underpinned by our own R&D. She mentioned that such integrations are never easy and appreciated the Chairman and CEO for creating the right environment for success through their leadership, resilience and guidance. 

Now as Tham takes on a new role and more responsibilities, she looks forward to the new journey she embarks on with Ensign. 

“I’m looking forward to lead Ensign on to the next phase of its journey, where we are able to cross-leverage our strengths and scale to provide holistic and leading edge services to our customers. I’m also excited by the platform that we will now be able to provide to transform our workforce as well as groom the next generation of cybersecurity talent in Singapore,” said Tham. 

Ensign also recently launched its global headquarters in Singapore and established a new security operations centre. Powered by a proprietary Cyber Threat Detection & Analytics engine, the facility provides Singapore-centric cyber threat intelligence to better protect public and private organisations in Singapore and across Asia Pacific.

The cybersecurity firms have great plans for its business in the future, with expansion as its key priority and for that Lee Fook Sun, Chairman of Ensign feels that Tham is the right choice for CEO.

Sun shared “Tammie has been working closely with the executive team since Ensign was founded and she thoroughly understands the company’s purpose and capabilities. I have no doubt that her astute business acumen, strong cybersecurity expertise and proven leadership skills will sharpen Ensign’s capabilities and strengthen our partnerships and business relations with stakeholders.”

With most businesses going digital and increased use of technology, cybersecurity has become critical for organizations and individuals. The technologies have led to the development of global threat landscape of exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware. Ensign aims to help organisations become secure cyber-resilient digital companies by combining analytics, intelligence and high-end execution capabilities. It aims to protect firms against evolving cyber threats and build resiliency while enabling them to navigate the complex cybersecurity landscape with confidence. 

With more and more companies looking for such solutions, Ensign holds many opportunities to tap onto. However, the global market is highly competitive with a presence of various prominent players and Ensign must prepare for this competition as well. Some of the key players in the industry include Symantec Corporation; Cisco Systems Inc.; and Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd. The security providers are offering increased sophistication of their services aimed to mitigate unforeseen online attack. Ensign must also constantly focus on improving its solutions and making them as relevant as possible.