Lico Resources

Lico Resources is a specialist recruitment firm focused on cybersecurity and technology Governance, Risk and Compliance. Founded in 2013, it works to the principle that less is more and that specialisation matters, and it states plainly that it does not recruit outside those two lanes. Its search runs end to end in four steps: a discovery brief on the role, team, stack and culture that separates must-haves from nice-to-haves; a curated shortlist of three to five candidates, each interviewed and contextualised, with no spam; confidential interview coordination with structured feedback both ways and reference work; and offer negotiation, counter-offer management and a 90-day check-in after onboarding. The firm says that behind every search is a person making a major career decision, and that it treats that with the weight it deserves.

On the cybersecurity side, Lico Resources recruits CISOs, heads of security, BISOs and VPs of information security for board-facing roles, cloud security architects across AWS, Azure and GCP, application security and DevSecOps engineers covering secure SDLC, container and Kubernetes security, and operational specialists including SOC managers, incident response leads, threat hunters, red and purple team specialists and penetration testers. On the technology GRC side it covers heads of IT governance, ISO 27001 and NIST programme owners, technology PMO leaders, heads of tech risk, second-line oversight, MAS TRM specialists, operational resilience and third-party risk managers, heads of IT audit, internal technology auditors, SOX IT controls specialists, IT compliance leads, and DPOs and PDPA or GDPR specialists.

The firm operates from Singapore across APAC and the Middle East, and reports more than 500 professionals placed with over 78 partner companies in nine countries. Its placements have been made at organisations it lists as a tier-one Singapore bank, a global Big Four consultancy, a MAS-regulated fintech, an APAC cloud provider, a regional healthcare group, a sovereign wealth fund, a Middle East energy major, a global reinsurer, a defence contractor and an e-commerce unicorn. Named referees from HCLTech, AIA Singapore, Singapore Exchange, PetroChina International, Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Sembcorp Industries, Rabobank Hong Kong and Standard Chartered Bank describe a deep understanding of the tech risk landscape and consistent delivery.