Eric Ashdown是 Microsoft 公司大中华区的首席安全顾问。作为一名高级顾问，他的工作是为影响 Microsoft 大中华区业务发展的安全和隐私问题出谋划策。他的工作重点是，为 Microsoft 公司在中国各地协助建立而且数量还在不断增加的政府安全中心扩展和增强安全解决方案。在工作过程中，Eric 将与中国、香港特别行政区和台湾地区的各个重要政府实体和私人部门一起，努力推动战略安全的发展。Eric 的职务反映了 Microsof t对使用自己的资源向客户提供支持以及解决与安全和隐私有关的政府政策问题所做的承诺。
Eric Ashdown is Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Greater China Region. His responsibility is to take a senior advisory role for both security and privacy issues that effect Microsoft's business in Greater China. His focus is to extend and enhance our security solutions through the growing number of Microsoft Technology Centers we have helped establish throughout China . Through his role, Eric will assist in driving strategic security with key Government entities and private sector clients throughout China , Hong Kong and Taiwan . Eric's role reflects Microsoft's commitment to use its own resources to support customers and address government policy issues related to security and privacy.
Eric 拥有 20 多年的从业经历，其中 9 年的信息安全经验和 11 年的投资银行家经历。他最近的职务是作为 合伙人 ，负责 Ernst & Young 安永公司 在大中华区的技术和安全风险服务（ Technology & Security Risk Services ）事务，在任职期间，他组建并管理一支人数达 50 名的专业队伍，并且与中国工商银行、平安保险、浦东发展银行、深圳发展银行、香港政府以及很多大型 跨国公司建立了安全顾问关系并进行了良好的管理。他在咨询服务和软件销售方面拥有经验，并曾经协助开发了安全和隐私方面的标准 – TRUSTe ，软件出版协会电子软件分发标准（与 Microsoft 合作）和针对加密应用的银行业标准。他和他先前管理的团队执行了由外国咨询服务公司与中国的银行签署的前 2 个“道德黑客”协议。这些工作获得了国家银行监督管理委员会的全面认可。 Eric 渴望将安全和隐私变成企业获得更多利润的助推器，并以此驱动了他自己的安全行业经历。
Eric has over 20 years of business experience, 10 years in Information Security and 11 years as an investment banker. At Microsoft, Eric has worked with large multinationals, on-line gaming firms, automobile manufacturers and Government entities. Prior to Microsoft, he was Partner in charge of Ernst & Young's Technology & Security Risk Services business for Greater China where he developed and managed a team of 50 professionals. In this capacity he built and managed security consulting relationships with ICBC Bank, Ping An Insurance, Pudong Development Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank, the HK Government and many large MNCs. His experience includes both consulting and software sales and he has assisted in the development of standards in security and privacy – TRUSTe, the Software Publishers Association Electronic Software Distribution Standard (working with Microsoft) and Banking standards for cryptographic applications. He and his previous team performed the first 2 ethical hacking engagements by a foreign consulting firm for PRC Banks in China . Both of these efforts received China Banking Regulatory Commission approval without comment. Eric's security experience has been driven by a desire to make security and privacy a profitable business enabler.
Eric 获得了乔治华盛顿大学国际贸易专业的 MBA 学位，以及太平洋大学国际研究（东亚）专业的文科学士学位。在大学学习期间，他曾作为学习中国历史和普通话的交流学生在台湾国立大学和台湾师范大学度过了一年的时光。
Eric received his MBA in International Business from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Studies/East Asia from the University of the Pacific. During his undergraduate studies he spent a year at Taiwan National University and Taiwan Normal University as an exchange student studying Chinese History and Mandarin.
