Strategically organized in close partnership with the UAE’s most influential cyber entities, including the UAE Cyber Security Council, Dubai Electronic Security Centre, Dubai Police, Telecommunications And Digital Government Regulatory Authority, Smart Dubai, the Investment Corporation of Dubai, ADNOC Refining and aeCERT, GISEC will curate and prioritize the region’s strategic cybersecurity agendas.
The UAE Cyber Security Council will host the first-ever Global Cybersecurity Congress at GISEC, where government cybersecurity leaders will share their expertise on some of the most pressing issues now facing the industry.
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Enabling Resilience in Digital Economies
Held under the theme ‘Enabling Resilience in Digital Economies’, GISEC’s hard-hitting conference agenda will host international cybersecurity innovators for three days of industry-shaping dialogue around the most pressing cybersecurity issues currently affecting enterprises and governments. Leading international solutions providers and cyber experts will gather at GISEC 2021, which will host debut country pavilions from Germany and Turkey.
GISEC 2021’s powerful conference agenda will attract leading international cybersecurity experts, including Craig Jones, Cybercrime Director, INTERPOL; Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President, and Chief Executive Officer, SolarWinds; H.E. Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Honorable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Nigeria; Victor Gevers, Ethical Hacker and Co-Founder, GDI Foundation, who hacked former the United States President Donald Trump’s Twitter twice; and Matthias Schranner, Founder and CEO of the Schranner Negotiation Institute, the FBI-trained negotiator who has advised the UN and will discuss tactics used in hacker blackmail negotiations.
GISEC’s Saudi Arabia Focus Day will evaluate the country’s growing cybersecurity spending, estimated to be worth $28 billion by 2025, and its evolving regulatory environment. Leading CISOs, regulators, policymakers, and security authorities will discuss the Kingdom’s roadmap, with speakers including Dr. Faisal Sibai, Vice President and CISO of a sovereign wealth fund; Sultan Altukhaim, Chief Information Security Officer, The Saudi Investment Bank; Muath AlHomoud, CISO, Tasnee; and Hafiz Farooq, Global Security Architect, Saudi Aramco.
