Elaine Ma

Pioneered new risk advisory and consulting offering in AI safety, establishing first-of-their-kind cross-border case studies. Building parameter-level AI agent with patented architecture and delivering AI governance services.

Led 24/7 SOC, VM, DevSecOps, and IT audit with direct board-level reporting. Architected enterprise AI Security-by-Design framework and developed agentic AI SOC architecture, reducing false positives and MTTR significantly.

Advised HK SFC-licensed digital asset platforms on SOC2, MAS TRM, AML/KYC compliance, and cybersecurity frameworks. Designed hybrid SOC architecture and AI/blockchain governance frameworks, reducing client alert fatigue and MTTD.

Built SOC, IR, AppSec, and audit from ground up, elevating security maturity from Level 2 to Level 4 in 2.5 years. Remediated 100+ critical audit findings and established forensic readiness and vendor SSDLC program.

Served as DPO for 8 APAC countries, implementing PDPA/GDPR/MLPS and AML-aligned data governance with zero regulatory fines. Built unified VM platform with risk-based prioritization achieving 48-hour SLA for critical fixes.

Embedded SAST/DAST/SCA into CI/CD for e-commerce and mobile platforms. Conducted quarterly purple team exercises to validate detection against modern threat actor TTPs, reducing post-release defects by 30%.

Led security operations across 6 APAC markets, reducing data leakage incidents by 50%. Drove MAS TRM and HKMA compliance and integrated security gates into core digital banking apps, including early-stage crypto custody pilots.

Secured 200+ workloads to PCI DSS Level 1 and designed application security framework reducing critical findings by 40%.

Designed embedded security, secure boot, and GDPR-ready health data architecture for IoT devices.

Managed OT/ICS/SCADA security for semiconductor fabs, reducing OT vulnerabilities by 35% via segmentation and BCP implementation.

Core SOC member for 2008 Beijing Olympics, handling 50+ incidents with zero service disruption.

Product management and application engineering role at a security company.

Software engineering and web design role.

Completed AI Product Design program at MIT in 2022.

Earned an MBA from BI Norwegian Business School in 2016.

Earned a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2015.

Earned a Bachelor of Science from China Agricultural University in 2003.