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Assistant Secretary for CyberSecurity and Enabling Technologies, Department of
Information and Communications Technology (DICT)
Executive Director, Cybercrime Investigation and Coordination Center (CICC)
Engineer Allan Salim Cabanlong is an ASEAN Engineer, a Professional Electronics Engineer, a graduate of Masters of Science in Global Information and Telecommunications Studies (Chief Information Officer/IT Disciplinary Research Course) at the Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and an alumnus of the Program for CyberSecurity Studies of the George C Marshall Center, European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany.
He was instrumental in the passage of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. For thirteen (13) years and two (2) months, Engineer Cabanlong served the Philippines through the Philippine National Police (PNP) - Information Technology Management Service (ITMS). He held various positions with PNP including Chief of Web Services and Cybersecurity Division and Chief of the Information Technology Office. Working with the police and witnessing the rising statistics in cybercrime have intensified his fervor to safeguard the Filipino people in cyberspace.
Engineer Cabanlong is a recipient of various local and international awards in the field of Electronics Engineering, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Law Enforcement, and Cyber Security. He is one of the Honorees of the 2015 Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Awards in the Senior Information Security Professional Category awarded by the (ISC-squared); a recipient of the Ten Outstanding Electronics Engineers of the Philippines in 2014; the PNP-ITMS Commissioned Officer of the Year 2014 and 2012; and also the recipient of the 2015 Special Citation for Outstanding Professional of the Philippines given by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC), just to name a few.
He was one of the contributors of the 2012 published book in the United States entitled “Law, Policy and Technology: Cyber Terrorism, Information Warfare and Internet Immobilization” which was edited by Pauline Reich and Eduardo Gelbstein; and “Cyber Warfare: A Review of Theories, Law, Policies, Actual Incidents - and the Dilemma of Anonymity in European Journal of Law and Technology”, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2010 which he co-wrote with Pauline C. Reich, Stuart Weinstein, and Charles Wild.
Engineer Cabanlong held the rank of Police Chief Inspector (Major) when he was appointed by the incumbent Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte as one of the four Assistant Secretaries of the newly created Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). His service as an Assistant Secretary of the DICT headed by the first Secretary Rodolfo A. Salalima is a landmark in Philippine history, being one of the firsts to have served the newly created government agency.
Early on in his stint with the DICT, he became instrumental in the creation of the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordination Center (CICC) and was given the responsibility of heading it as Executive Director. The CICC is the inter-agency body for policy coordination and implementation among concerned agencies, and for the formulation and enforcement of the National Cybersecurity Plan (NCSP). Currently, Assistant Secretary Cabanlong is working on getting the Center running on its full potential.
To enable the efficient function of the CICC and to give direction to the national campaign of a safer cyberspace for every Filipino, Assistant Secretary Cabanlong initiated and spearheaded the crafting of the National Cybersecurity Plan (NCSP) 2022. The Cybersecurity and Enabling Technologies unit of the DICT which he spearheads unveiled the National Cybersecurity Plan 2022 on May 2, 2017.
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Dr. Lemuel Rodolfo Braña has more than 25 years of combined experience in various industries such as Finance, Banking, Marketing, E-Commerce, Manufacturing and Information Technology industries. He held various positions in these industries such as Treasurer, Chief Finance Officer, E-Commerce Consultant, Chief Information and Technology Officer, Chief Executive Officer and President.
He earned his primary and secondary education from the University of the Philippines Integrated School in Diliman, Quezon City. He earned his bachelor’s degree, masters degree and doctoral degree from the University of the Philippines in Diliman Quezon City. He also earned technical certificates on Project Management, Software Engineering and IT Business Management from the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) in Aichi-Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Tokyo-Japan and Small Business Corp (SBC) in Ansan-South Korea respectively. Recently he also earned an Executive MBA Leadership Certificate from the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, India.
He served as IT professional and senior technical consultant to various companies and government agencies such as: Asian Development Bank, Office of the President at Malacañang Palace, Department of Finance, Bureau of Internal Revenue, IBM, LGCNS Korea, Philhealth, GSIS, DSWD, Bureau of Customs, Land Registration Authority, Philippine Depository Insurance Corporation, UP Information Technology Development Center, Hanns Seidel Foundation, European Union, European Information Technology Service Center and various Universities here and abroad.