IDC United Arab Emirates Security Roadshow Elevating the Security of the Future Enterprise

Digital transformation has become a major disruptor of how companies operate today, and its importance is only growing with time. As companies increasingly turn toward technology to drive and innovate their business models, they become more vulnerable to cyberattacks from hackers and other malicious actors who are now innovating their attack vectors in parallel. Recent research has revealed that developing security and resilience excellence — through establishing security operations and enhancing security skills and processes — is the biggest strategic investment planned by 58% of CIOs and CISOs over the coming two years. While striving for greater efficiency, agility, and speed is a major priority, the lack of skills needed to navigate the constantly evolving cybersecurity landscape presents its challenges, and finding the right balance sets apart successful and well thought out cybersecurity strategies.

Privileged Accounts are known to be the number one target for hackers as they represent the keys to the kingdom. This is why managing and securing these accounts should be at the core of every enterprise security roadmap. We will discuss how security projects don’t always have to come at the cost of high overheads and additional management controls, and how following the best practices should be seamless and result in drastically reducing the attack surface for organizations.

To better manage and reduce cybersecurity risk the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) and its five functions; Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover provides as a top-level security management tool that helps assess cybersecurity risk across your organisation. In this session, Mohamad Rizk will discuss how When you combine that with your data protection solution, you create or add to a solid cybersecurity program.

Confidently secure your data center applications. Whether you’re looking to ensure 24x7 application availability and security or migrating to a “cloud-first” adoption model that requires seamless support, we’ve got you covered. Juniper Connected Security delivers a Zero Trust data center architecture with advanced threat management that extends visibility, intelligence, and enforcement beyond the traditional firewall. With centralized management, policy enforcement, and analytics, Juniper’s data center security solution keeps applications and microservices secure and distributed across physical data centers, private clouds, and public cloud environments simultaneously.

Artificial intelligence is already being applied to defending and attacking networks. We cannot tell where the balance of advantage lies. An attacker could use AI to predict the defender's moves. For defenders, predicting threat actors and their attack strategies may help them better orchestrate their defenses. Gamification of AI attack and defense methods is part of an arms race that is accelerating:

In this presentation, we will try to uncover some use cases around AI attacker-defender balance and discuss how AI has become a two-edged sword and is helping defenders and attackers at the same time.