Paraskevas Panayi is the Chief Information Security Officer at Astro Bank. He holds an MSc in Network Management and Security from London Metropolitan University and a BSc in Computer Science. He has worked as an Information Security Analyst, Head of InfoSec Risk Management team and Manager ICT & InfoSec Risk Management at Bank of Cyprus. In a previous life, he has also worked as a web developer in leading organizations offering financial and billing services, with the mission of digital transformation, optimizing, digitizing and automating CRM related services. During the last decade, he has devoted himself to the field of information security in the banking sector. Currently his main duty is to ensure that risk management processes are efficient and run smoothly to timely identify risks, define action plans to mitigate these and monitor their implementation.