IDC Security Roadshow Elevating the Security of the Future Enterprise

In-Person Event | Crowne Plaza Riyadh RDC Hotel | June 27, 2022

Overview

Today’s security leaders are examining cybersecurity through a strategic-, business-, and industry-focused lens. Ensuring efficient and effective security across the entire enterprise is a necessity at a time when networks are evaporating, endpoints are proliferating, and relentless adversaries are continually adapting their tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Organizations across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region are increasingly looking to enable comprehensive threat detection and response, all while elevating their level of cybersecurity maturity. According to a recent IDC survey, 54% of Saudi CIOs have embedded cybersecurity into the planning, initiation, and assessment phases of all new business initiatives.

As the market matures and regulatory compliance becomes increasingly critical, this event will provide a timely platform for industry experts to highlight transformative technologies, analyze the evolving threat landscape, and examine the increasingly sophisticated nature of cyberattacks that enterprises of the future must consider.

 

Agenda

Time Event & Speakers

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8:30

Registration & Welcome Tea / Coffee

9:00

Welcome Address

Hamza Naqshbandi

Associate Vice President (Saudi Arabia & Bahrain), IDC
9:10

IDC Keynote: Elevating the Security of the Future Enterprise

Shilpi Handa

Associate Research Director

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.

9:15

Creating a Safer Future

Sultan Albaiz

Senior Account Executive, Networking & Advance Security, VMware

Cybersecurity remains at the top of every organization’s agenda. This keynote session will explore how public and private sector organizations, both large and small, address today’s most prominent security challenges. It will examine how they are securing the software supply chain, utilizing zero trust approaches, guarding against ransomware and other threats, and ensuring cloud governance and digital sovereignty. Whether transforming digitally in the cloud or operating mixed infrastructure, participants will learn about the latest security strategies to guarantee a safer future.

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9:30

Securing Modern Applications: What You Need to Know Now

Shabir Bhat

Regional Sales Director, Checkmarx

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9:45

Confronting the New Wave of Cyberattacks

Werno Gevers

Regional Manager (Middle East), Mimecast

Have companies begun to take cybersecurity more seriously? The State of Email Security 2022 findings stress the importance of a cyber resilience strategy, layered defenses, cyber awareness training, and the use of AI/ML for protection in the new digital landscape. With the number of publicly reported data breaches soaring past last year’s total, 2021 appears to be the worst year on record for cybersecurity.

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10:00

Threat Intelligence Role Within The Cyber Defense Strategy

Alexander Mazikin

CTI and Security Services Group Manager, Kaspersky

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10:15

Keeping Your Enterprise Business Safe with Security-First Cloud Infrastructure

Dragan Petkovic

Cloud Security Advisor, Oracle EMEA

Cloud security and compliance have always been key concerns for Saudi CISOs and CIOs keen to embark their organizations on a transformation journey to the cloud. Many businesses in the Kingdom have either moved or are planning to move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud for the values it brings, such as high performance and real-time elasticity for enterprise applications.

Hybrid cloud is also a popular option for organizations that have specific requirements for data sovereignty, security, latency, and field deployability. As enterprises continue to adopt new cloud services, they require more sophisticated capabilities to secure their entire cloud footprint. Partnering with a trusted cloud provider can bolster your enterprise's security and compliance posture with the latest defense-in-depth security designs.

Compliance with local regulations is also a key requirement for regulated industries such as the financial services, public, and telecommunications sectors. It imperative for organizations in these sectors to understand how their cloud provider caters for compliance with regulatory frameworks.

Join this session to learn more on:

• How your organization can better comply with national regulatory frameworks in Saudi Arabia enforced by regulators such as MCIT, NCA, SAMA, and CMA, along with international regulations and standards

• How you can implement and manage consistent security, identity, and access management policies across the hybrid datacenters while maintaining compliance

• How Saudi enterprises and organizations are managing their security and compliance in the cloud

 

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10:30

Networking Tea & Coffee Break

11:00

Managed Cyber Defense – When Professionals fight Professionals

Safwan Akram

MSS Director, Help AG

Cybercrime has turned into a booming business, with professional attackers leveraging advanced methods to devise and deploy increasingly sophisticated attacks that exploit the exponential digitalization of everything and the growing dependency on IT systems. Such attackers cost the global economy billions of dollars annually. In this context, it is not about if, but when, an incident happens. This session will consequently highlight the importance of a future-forward security operations center transformation. Such a transformation ensures effective incident response in the fight against advanced adversaries and builds resiliency in the cyber age.

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11:15

Weathering the Threat Storm – 2022 Edition

Roland Daccache

Systems Engineering Manager, META, CrowdStrike

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11:30

Looking Beyond the Obvious: A Comprehensive Approach to Investigate & Manage Risks

Al-Batoul Kutbi

Sr. Cybersecurity Area Specialist, Microsoft

A comprehensive security approach is not just about defending external attacks, but also about addressing internal threats. Insider threats are on the rise. Sometimes they're intentional and often times they're not. But impact from either can be very costly. Because it's difficult for organizations to even spot these insider threats, much less distinguish between routine behavior and the outlier that could be detrimental to the business, organizations need tools that can intelligently identify and detect which activities are mostly likely to pose real security threats, even inadvertently. Through its unique approach, Microsoft provides a comprehensive solution to investigate and manage both external & internal risks without compromising employee productivity and privacy.

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11:45

IDC & Microsoft White Paper Launch: The latest Cybersecurity Trends in Saudi Arabia

Shilpi Handa

Associate Research Director
12:05

Prayer Break & Coffee Break

12:50

Track Sessions (Parallel Sessions) (Parallel Sessions)

The Evolution of Detection & Response in the New Threat Landscape

12:50 - 12:55

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Jawairia Asif

Research Analyst
12:55 - 13:05

Extended Detection and Response - Demystifying Common Myths About XDR

Ozair Rashid

Sales Engineering Lead, (META), SentinelOne

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13:10 - 13:20

The True Potential of the Digital Economy

Christos Onoufriou

CEO, Odyssey

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13:25 - 13:35

Defense in Concert: Evolving Your SecOps Strategy

Gopan Sivasankaran

General Manager (META), Secureworks

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13:40 - 13:50

Ransomware Security

Marwan AlHuthail

Enterprise Sales Manager, Saudi Arabia, Veeam Software

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Elevating the Security of Future Enterprises

12:50 - 12:55

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Arif Sultan Shiekh

Senior Research Analyst, Software, IDC Saudi Arabia
12:55 - 13:05

Elements of Zero Trust Data Centers

Amr Masoud

Sr. Sales Engineer, Juniper Networks

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13:10 - 13:20

Beyond 2022: Get One Step Ahead of the Ransomware Attackers

Mohammed Al Tamimi,

Regional Director (MENA & Turkey), Rubrik

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13:25 - 13:35

XDR – Why it’s a must for Enterprises

Mutasem Iseidan

Strategic Account Manager, Trellix

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13:40 - 13:50

Building an Effective Threat Informed Defense Program

Esmat Salah El-Din

Sales Director iMETA, AttackIQ

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13:55 - 14:05

Cybersecurity Capabilities for Future

Eng. Khalid Alfaheid

CISO, Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture

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Rising Sophistication of Cyberattacks and the Impact on the Applications

12:50 - 12:55

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Azaz Ahmad

Associate Consulting Director
12:55 - 13:10

Innovation to Fight Financial Criminals in the Digital Era

Olga Parra

Principal AI (MEA), IBM

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13:15 - 13:30

Securing Modern Applications

Abdullah Khalaf

Senior Business Architect, SBM

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13:35 - 13:50

Predict, Prevent, and Respond to Modern Threats

Haytham Kotb

Threat Management Technical Leader, IBM

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The Evolution of Detection & Response in the New Threat Landscape
12:50 - 12:55

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12:55 - 13:05

Extended Detection and Response - Demystifying Common Myths About XDR

13:05 - 13:10

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13:10 - 13:20

The True Potential of the Digital Economy

13:20 - 13:25

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13:25 - 13:35

Defense in Concert: Evolving Your SecOps Strategy

13:35 - 13:40

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13:40 - 13:50

Ransomware Security

13:50 - 13:55

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13:55 - 14:00

End of Session Raffle: Apple Watch

Elevating the Security of Future Enterprises
12:50 - 12:55

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12:55 - 13:05

Elements of Zero Trust Data Centers

13:05 - 13:10

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13:10 - 13:20

Beyond 2022: Get One Step Ahead of the Ransomware Attackers

13:20 - 13:25

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13:25 - 13:35

XDR – Why it’s a must for Enterprises

13:35 - 13:40

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13:40 - 13:50

Building an Effective Threat Informed Defense Program

13:50 - 13:55

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13:55 - 14:05

Cybersecurity Capabilities for Future

14:05 - 14:10

End of Session Raffle: Apple Watch

Rising Sophistication of Cyberattacks and the Impact on the Applications
12:50 - 12:55

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12:55 - 13:10

Innovation to Fight Financial Criminals in the Digital Era

13:10 - 13:15

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13:15 - 13:30

Securing Modern Applications

13:30 - 13:35

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13:35 - 13:50

Predict, Prevent, and Respond to Modern Threats

13:50 - 13:55

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13:55 - 14:00

End of Session Raffle: Apple Watch

14:10

Lunch & Networking

15:10

Close of Event

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General Information

In-Person Event

Monday, 27th June 2022

08:30 am 

 

Language
English

Registration Fee
Free of Charge: For End Users (not IT + Consultant companies)

Contact
For more information, please contact: Dalia Jaarah,  Mobile: +966 500 198 046, Email: djaarah@idc.com

Proceedings

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Location

Crowne Plaza Riyadh RDC Hotel & Convention

 
Location

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AVP Conferences

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Senior Sales Manager, Conferences, IDC Middle East, Turkey & Africa

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