e-Crime & Cybersecurity 2021 - Middle East | AKJ Associates Ltd | 9 March 2021 | Online

25th e-Crime & Cybersecurity Middle East Summit

Securing a sensor-saturated world
The distinction between digital and physical is gone: a new breed of security leader is needed to combine physical security, IT security, OT security, product management security, and supply chain security

The disruption caused by COVID, significant though it is, has obscured more important and long-lasting trends that will challenge traditional cybersecurity as never before. It is easy to talk generally about ‘digitalisation’ without really looking at how profoundly it is re-making businesses across all sectors, from the smallest to the largest.

Small merchants are adopting e-Commerce models, using Cloud providers for all significant IT needs, and dealing with an explosion of digital payment models and channels.

Larger companies, facing similar changes in customer and supplier behaviour, are adopting not just these technologies but an extraordinary range of new digital devices that render the description ‘Internet of Things’ inadequate. It is much more accurate to say that we are entering a ‘world of sensor saturation’ that will transform entire industries.

To take just one example that intersects with many others, in insurance an ongoing IoT revolution will transform the business model and security: cars with sensors will track driver style and determine premiums; in health and life insurance, wearable sensors and fitness devices will perform a similar function.

These technologies have huge implications for the whole sector: for premiums, around discrimination, and a fundamental shift to the prevention of incidents rather than reaction to them.

Most immediately, this creates huge data flows between sensors and the business vulnerable to interception, both by those who wish to steal the data but also by those who wish to alter data to make fraudulent claims or alter premium-defining models. And it’s not just insurance: a similar pattern of profound change is occurring across industry. And traditional security will struggle to keep up.

The e-Crime & Cybersecurity Congress for the Middle East will take place online and will look at how accelerated digitalisation requires a new kind of security. Join our real-life case studies and in-depth technical sessions from the security and privacy teams at some of the world’s most admired brands

Cybersecurity for business resilience
• Forced, rapid digitalisation has revealed the fragmented nature of many security programmes
• Protecting the business while enabling innovation and flexibility requires new models and approaches for cyber
• Are automation and orchestration the answer?

2021 Speakers

Abdul Razack Dileep
CISO, Government Sector

Bassel Assah
Head of InfoSec and Business Continuity, Bankmed

Sreedevi Jayachandran
Information Security and Risk Advisory, MIG Holding

Wissam Abed
Leader – Financial Intelligence Unit - Middle East & South Asia, Western Union

Frederik Weidemann
Chief Technical Evangelist, Onapsis Inc

Srikant Dasondhi
Cyber Security and Compliance Specialist, Alef Education

Roland Abi Najem
Cyber Security Consultant & Instructor, American University of Science & Technology

Mohammad Faheem
Senior Tech Security Architect, Chalhoub Group

Ron Peeters
Vice President Middle East and Emerging Markets, Synack

Dan Fein
Director of Email Security Products, Darktrace

Simon Brady
Managing Editor, AKJ Associates Ltd

Nour Fateen
Presales Manager, UKI & META, Recorded Future

Trevor Dearing
Technology Director, EMEA, Illumio

Migchiel de Jong
Systems Engineer, Illumio

Thom Langford
Security Advocate, SentinelOne

Kostas Lotsis
Senior Sales Engineer, Firemon

2021 Sponsors

STRATEGIC SPONSORS:
• Beyond Trust
• DarkTrace
• Illumio
• Pulse Secure
• Recorded Future
• Sentinel One
• Synack

EDUCATION SPONSORS:
• EnTrust Datacard
• FireEye
• Firemon
• LogRhythm
• Onapsis
• One Login
• ThreatConnect

NETWORK SPONSORS:
• Green Method
• ManageEngine
• Tripwrire