Tariq Malik

Member Board of Advisers

Mr. Tariq Malik is known for involvement in articulation of various national level projects and establishment of imperative National IT assets.

“To contribute towards resolution of pressing issues of society.”

He believes in:

“Immersion of ICT for the benefit of society. Following a top- down approach; initiating at Government level, taking it to other public sector verticals and then to common man.”

He has the singular honour of operating as Chief Technology Officer, Pakistan Army. Where he had the opportunity to bring about change and apply his vision both for army and for the rest of the society. It required an emulsion of business process re-engineering duly supported with fool proof security systems.

Currently he is providing consultancy services to International and local organisations on security of their critical infrastructure requiring utmost secrecy and security from Techaccess platform.

He is “Member Advisory Board” of “Centre for Global and Strategic Studies.” A think tank based out of Islamabad, Pakistan. The centre conducts studies on all sort of issues including security, environment, social and economics.

He is also part of the Government e-commerce group, which is instrumental in providing input to Government on payment systems and ecommerce in Pakistan.

He is also working with Akhtar Fuiou Technologies, a joint venture between Akhtar group and Fuiou (China) with several FinTech services, including mobile wallets, payroll services, international remittances, RPA, AI/ML based products, etc. Fuiou is amongst the biggest financial services provider in the world (China).

From Techaccess platform he also launched a Security Information and Event Management product with User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA), Cogito. The product has the capability to detect APTs using advance Machine Learning Algorithms.

He was an Independent Director of Askari Bank management board, where he chaired Board IT Committee and was member of Board Audit and Compliance Committee and participant / contributor on Board Risk Management Committee. His major contribution was in conversion of board strategy into IT initiatives, policy making and establishment of strict governance with audit policies.

Before providing services to Government he was at Sun Microsystems. He provided services to regional telecom operators like EtiSalat, STC etc. Financial institutions like NBAD, HB AG Zurich etc. He participated in Design and Implementation of Dubai Internet City. Lead the architecture and deployment team of the Dubai E-Government.

Participated in implementation of ARAMCO SAP project. The biggest ever ERP project of that time. Performed Enterprise Security Assessments of several large regional Banks, Defence and Telco operators.

Represented Global Enterprise Security Services Group that led MENA (Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan) Cyber Security Practice.

He has been honoured to deliver lectures in accredited national institutions like National Defence University (NDU), National School of Public Policy Lahore (NSPP), and National University of Science and Technology (NUST).

Mr. Tariq Malik bears Honours in Applied and Information Science from Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.