University of the Western Cape,
Cape Town, South Africa

Christo Coetzer is a cyber security innovator with over 20 years of industry experience. He is the Director & CEO of BlueVision, a global cyber security professional services business specialising in early intervention and threat detection. Alongside multiple industry certifications, he holds an MSc in Computer Science (Information Security) from Rhodes University and is pursuing PhD research at the University of the Western Cape, where he is developing a decision support model for managing cybersecurity debt in the South African FinTech sector. His research has been featured at the International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS), most recently in 2025, where he expanded on the financial quantification of cyber risks.