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HARSHUL JOSHI, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CYBER GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE AT DARKMATTER - DARKMATTER
End to End Security is Key
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arkMatter, an international cyber security firm with headquarters in the UAE, recently announced partnering for the introduction of an advanced voice and chat application to facilitate a highly secure communication environment for government agencies and commercial entities in the region. The application delivers secure voice and chat communications utilising iOS and Android operating systems, offering tap-proof capabilities, protecting the device from third-party attacks and ensuring that no backdoors are pres-
ent. While providing end-to-end secure communications, based on the latest advancements in cryptography and network protocols, the voice and chat application also features state-of-theart back-end infrastructure to allow secure communications. Addressing delegates at GISEC later this morning, DarkMatter Chief Executive Officer, Faisal Al Bannai will discuss the topic of building the optimum framework required to give an organisation a robust cyber security strategy, which extends to the provision of end-to-end security. “Our approach at DarkMatter involves an end-to-end outlook to cyber
security, incorporating servers and core networking components, through to transportation layers and end-user devices,” says Faisal Al Bannai. “We need to ensure the protection of data both at rest as well as in-transit, though there also has to be an added effort in raising awareness amongst technology users as they may be the inadvertent sources of cyber security breaches through lack of awareness.” DarkMatter’s Harshul Joshi, Eric Eifert, and Dimitrios Sarris are also participating in today’s event programme. Please refer to the schedule to confirm when and where you can hear them speak.
Fidelis is showcasing its end to end security solutions at the GISEC 2016. “There are a lot of different security solutions that people put in a stack but the goal is to have a limited number of systems because it makes integration easier and also helps the cyber security analysts to concentrate on one pane of glass rather than many screens,” says Fidelis Cybersecurity Chief Cyber Strategist, Jim Jaeger. Our value proposition for end to end security is that we look into 2 perspectives and go beyond the other players. We look at all the ports and the portals and we also look at the entire lifecycle of threat from attack to lateral movement in network to collecting the data and staging it. We bring the network and the endpoint together in a single frame,” adds Jim.
UNLOCKING THE WORLD OF SECURITY The theme for StarLink this year is ‘Cybersecurity Unlocked:Learn, Adapt, Defend.“It is our goal to accelerate the growth of market penetration, to accelerate revenue growth for vendors, to accelerate channel breadth development and the way to do that is to continue the typical distribution but also to provide direct touch of market awareness creation and opportunity creation. On the ground local support in every country we operate is our key distinguishing factor from our competitors.” said Avinash Advani, Vice President, StarLink.
CYBER CRIME COSTS GLOBAL BUSINESSES $445 BILLION ANNUALLY. WE DON’T WANT YOU TO LOSE A PENNY. At DarkMatter we’re in the business of mitigating risk - we do that by offering end-to-end cyber security services that protect governments and enterprise. Our Cyber Network Defence team works with leading companies to identify and respond to the most advanced threats, threat actors and cyber attacks. Our Secure Operations Centre (SOC) will monitor the full spectrum of cyber risks that threaten our clients’ intellectual property and financial security. Our Secure Communications solutions extend secure business processes into the mobile workforce. We’re proud to be the Founding Cyber Security Partner of Future Technology Week and the Cyber Security Innovation Partner of GISEC. Visit us to find out more about the next generation of cyber security.
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DAY TWO
Unleashing the Power of Healthy IoT
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THE CUSTOMIZED CUT FOR APPLICATIONS
Can you please brief us on Gemalto and what they are doing for Internet Of Things? Gemalto is a leader in secularization of digital interactions. Our main objective is to enable people to enjoy digital life freely and securely for that we are covering different market segments from telecom, banking, government as well as enterprise and ofcourse IoT segment which is the rising one. What are the solutions/products you go to the market with? On IoT specifically we are covering full range of services and products. We start from the very core of the products like modems or what we call mink cards that enable data to be securely stored, encrypted and ensure connectivity as well, and from there we go to platforms managing different types of applications, connectivity and everything related to monitoring of devices, auditing and many kind of things. IoT has become the buzz word now, but it always comes with a two edges sword of security and storage hazards, how do you deal with these problems when it comes to IoT? The principle of IoT is to connect things, you will have more than 21 billion things connected soon. It is a lot of data and a lot
CHRISTELLE TOUREILLE, VP FIELD MARKETING- MEA, GEMALTO
of connectivity, the purpose is to secure this data and then you transit the data in a secure way and you ensure whoever is getting this data is an authorized person. So we see this as a global ecosystem where you need to secure data when it’s at risk whether on move or whoever is accessing the data. This data is going in a pool of Big Data, whoever is accessing or manipulating the data it is important to know who is doing what to the ecosystem. Security measures to be taken for IoT? IoT is a revolution of M2M, the basics of ecosystem is trust and if we need it to be rampant we need to ask people who trust each other to use a network and secure a network and monitor it as well. In terms
of security there are various threats and hacking so people are more and more concerned about that and the impact of such wrenches is direct and hackers tarnish the brand names, and whenever brand name is associated with hacking, it is affecting the ecosystem. How do you cope up with competition and what differentiates you from your competitors? We have been growing significantly and our core mission is to re-ensure digital transactions. Digital transactions can be applied in any business, it can be related to telecommunication activity or banking transactions or government. We foresee a lot of opportunities to leverage our skills
Security A´la Carte Spire Solutions is very positive for the 2016 security market and looks forward to have a better year ad compared to 2015. Spire has been increasingly investing in events across the region and garnering some rave attentions to its security portfolio. “For GISEC 2016, we have brought to the table some very good solutions which are a bit different from the normal run on mill solutions. Deception technologies are one of it. We have also brought in full packet capture with multiple incident response and forensic facility which we believe are quick solutions which will be useful to the market,” says Sanjeev Walia, CEO of Spire Solutions. Talking about the collective strength that all the vendor bring along, Sanjeev says, “The uniqueness in the way that they look at the challenges and how elegantly they have solved the challenge is a collective strength that has brought great value to the customers and what makes us the partner of choice is that, we bring value not only to our technology partners but also to the channel partners and the customers.” Talking about the whole SANJEEV WALIA, CEO OF SPIRE SOLUTIONS concept of end to end security, Snajeev says “The one thing which we never use in security is 100%. There is a lot of gap which can be covered by utilizing our strengths. There are many organizations which are defensive in nature because of various legal compliance, but there are so many things that you can do aggressively by being defensive. By doing this, we can definitely close that gap.”
ALEXANDRA ILINSKAYA, HEAD OF SALES, MOBIDEV
Mobidev debuted in GISEC for the first time. The headquarters is located in Ukraine, it is an established company having clients from USA, UK, Canada. The organization has been dedicated to exploring new markets and mapping new clients and territories, therefore they chose to be a part of the much recognized GISEC platform. Customizing solutions and applications for mobiles and web has been the main focus of the organization. Mobidev is keen on exploring newer partners and channels in the Middle East. Alexandra Ilinskaya, Head of Sales, Mobidev said, “Basically we have two main development branches; mobile applications like iOs, android platforms like native developments and cross platform solutions like phone applications, and another branch is web development. We first understand the requirement and then provide the technological assistance for the deployment. It’s more about long term partnership. The biggest challenge for us is to understand the mindset of people in the IT sphere.” Mobidev concentrates not just on mobiles and tablets but on making solutions available on the go; anywhere and anytime.
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Niche Solutions for a Competitive Market In the highly competitive IT Security Distribution market and keeping wellpaced with ever changing Security landscape in the region, Bulwark has been successful in the introduction of niche Security Technologies which addresses customer pain areas and provides a complete end to end solution to their ever-growing and changing Security requirements. “Bulwark has excelled in providing and delivering value-added services, that include solutions pre-sales consulting, training, channel enablement programs, post-sales implementa-
tion and technical support, and adding value at every stage of product life cycle. Bulwark plans to keep its channel community up-to-date on the specialized cutting-edge technology products and solutions and simultaneously provide world-class service to its customers.” says Jose Thomas, CEO of Bulwarks. It is our continuous and ongoing effort to invest on channel initiatives which include long term partner growth plans, partner certification and reward programmes and channel enablement sessions. Our constant focus is on chan-
nel growth & development. We have been empowering our channel community, which has significantly contributed to our growth & development as a valueadded distributor in the region. We are also seeing more vendors approaching us to take up their products through our established channels utilizing our years of experience gained over many years of operation in the region. Talking about Bulwarks Prime strategy, Jose adds, “We have tuned our resources and offerings to effectively complement the above resolution by engaging our channel partners and vendors..”
Long Term Data Archiving Panasonic is showcasing its latest data archiving solution LB-DH8 Series Optical Drive at the Big Data Show, The reliable new LB-DH8 Series optical disc library system is a long term data archiving strategy designed for sustainability. This system will meet the most complex data challenges, attracting organizations with its ability to store data for an extended period of time. According to Yasuo Yamasaki – Director, System Solutions and Communications Division, Panasonic Marketing Middle East and Africa (PMMAF), “Our comprehensive study of the system solutions market revealed that there is a strong need to look beyond what’s been done and develop a strategy that would surprise the customers of Data Archiving product category. As a customer focused company, Panasonic is determined to propose products and services to realize customer values and to continue leveraging its expertise by offering innovative business solutions.”
EMPOWERING THE ENTERPRISE SECURITY ARCHITECTURE people who represent solutions that we can stand by. We are firm believers that ability to execute is a primary prerequisite in consulting on security especially, and this is something which we take very seriously when selecting our ecosystem SHEIKH KHALED TATWEER SOLUTIONS
How long have you been participating in GISEC and What is your GISEC/GEMEC 2016 Agenda? This is the first time Tatweer Solutions is taking part in GISEC. We’re looking forward to demonstrating our vision for security and the value we’ve been able to deliver for our customers. What are the various solutions that you go to market with?
Our Solutions cover what we call our Enterprise Security Architecture, which ultimately defines an approximate blueprint for organizations looking to cover cyber vulnerabilities within their network and organization at large. How does your partner ecosystem look like? Our partner ecosystem consists of solutions which cover the range of our Enterprise Security Architecture and
Define your organization´s prime security resolution in á sentence´. At Tatweer, what defines our security approach, and what drives us each day, is not trends-mongering or hyperbole but a resolute singularly focused approach on our customers; by focusing on their needs and their environments this allows us to zero-in on making their organization more secure from cyber threat, whether that be as a result of our solutions, our services portfolio, or simple consultation, it all works toward the same end goal.
IOT: A STEP FURTHER
NECIP OZYUCEL, CLOUD & ENTERPRISE BUSINESS GROUP LEAD, MICROSOFT GULF
The Microsoft booth is abuzz with some lively and unique real life demos at the Future Tech Week´s Big Data show. Microsoft is showcasing how machine data can be to intelligence, thereby harnessing greater insights by converting raw unstructured data into meaningful actions. Necip Ozyucel, Cloud & Enterprise Business Group Lead, Microsoft Gulf said, “Data is flowing everywhere. Data is the new electricity. Electricity gave birth to a new era with its power. It is all about using it in the right way. Big data, if used in the right way, can open a new horizon of business opportunities for the modern enterprises.” On the IoTx platform, Microsoft is bringing in new capabilities with its Emotion detection, IoT remote monitoring solution, and social analytics. Under the emotion detection, there is a demonstration of Azure Machine Learning project Oxford Apis, through an image processing application. The application is capable of taking pictures and analyzing the picture to predict the emotion on one’s face. The IoT Remote Monitoring solution will have demonstration of a remote monitoring solution based on Azure IoT Suite, IoT hub, Stream Analytics, Blob storage and Document DB. The social analytics will have demonstration of social listening platform, that listens to a social network in real time, analyze and visualize it with PowerBI. “IoT is very successful in the region. We are living in a region with extreme natural conditions so using technology makes a lot of sense. Think of oil and gas, healthcare, smart cities etc…. it is always better to put intelligence into these things, collect and analyze data and bring intelligence based on those data,” added Necip. Talking about Microsoft´s Cloud tools, he added, “Cloud supports the pay per use model. You can scale up and scale down very easily. Iot is very similar to this. Due to huge influx of data, the demand is very unpredictable, so a cloud model fits very well. Microsoft’s Cloud Tools take Analytics and Artificial Intelligence a step further.”
DAY TWO
Wearable Solutions for IoT
SUNIL PAUL, COO AND CO FOUNDER OF FINESSE
Finesse will be showcasing their solutions for IoT featuring wearable devices and other mobility solutions targeted to the Healthcare industry. Finesse’s solution for the Healthcare vertical eases life for patients connecting patients, doctors, primary care givers, nursing and hospitals. Some key areas where this solution can help to give better visibility and connectivity are: • Demetia Monitor: Helps caregiv-
ers keep track of family member having Dementia using a wearable device and smartphone application. • Visually Impaired Assistance: A smart walking stick that assists visually impaired by providing them real time inputs on obstructions and helps caregivers to keep track of their whereabouts and safety. • Post Opeative Care Assistance: A medical lab grade wearable device that
continuously keeps track of vitals in realtime for 36 hours in a single charge. • Medical Home Kit: An easy to use patient-centric connected portable medical kit for patients to record vitals at the comfort of their homes. Vital readings sent to doctors or caregivers through Mobile app. • Patient Care Monitor: Patient centric wearable device. It monitors and tracks patients to increase operational efficiency of patients engagement with respect to Doctors, Nursing & hospital. Finesse with its next generation unified and connected health devices and systems helps to monitor health proactively and address the safety needs during emergencies. The device agnostic cloud based IOT platform is scalable, secure and extendible to on-board IOT devices in a short time. The analytics platform in conjunction with CCX IOT Platform can be used to develop advanced algorithms to generate insights and make intelligent decisions.
THE WALLIX DEBUT Wallix, launched Wallix AdminBastion Suite in the Middle East. The new product integrates password management, access management, monitoring and comprehensive session recording into a single platform available via a web portal. Designed on a non-intrusive architecture, the company believes that the new WAB Suite is the easiest solution to implement, use and manage in the market today and can be installed within a day, making it three times faster to implement than its nearest competitor. Irrespective of the size of the organization, this area represents the greatest risk to its cybersecurity. Where information security professionals are facing a loss of control over an ever-growing number of users with privileges and an inability to monitor the use of privileged accounts. “We have brought together all the requirements for the effective management of privileged access onto a single platform that’s quick to deploy, simple to use and transparent to users. ” said Jean-Noël de Galzain, President of Wallix.
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FORSEEING SECURITY NEEDS
NIRAJ MATHUR, REGIONAL PRACTICE MANAGER-DATA CENTER & CLOUD NETWORKING AT GBM
“The GBM Cyber Security division offers best of breed solutions from various partners in different areas of People, Data, Application, Network, End-Point Security and Intelligence. Our diversified portfolio fulfills your evolving business needs and demands of the current threat landscape by providing customers best in class Assessment Services, Consulting Services or Integrated solutions to ensure risk mitigation. We foresee the need for organizations to become more collaborative in their defense strategy and not fight the battle alone.” says Niraj Mathur, Regional Practice ManagerData Center & Cloud Networking at GBM
PALO ALTO- SPOTLIGHT SECURITY PLATFORM 7.0
SAEED AGHA, GM OF PALO ALTO
Palo Alto Networks is working with some of the most demanding industries to keep their data and critical infrastructure safe from targeted cyberattacks. These organizations have learned firsthand the power of a next-generation security platform when it comes to safely enabling the use of all applications, maintaining complete visibility and control, and confidently pursuing new business ventures, while protecting the organization from the latest cyber threats. Our natively integrated platform brings network, cloud and endpoint security into a common architecture, with complete visibility and control, so your organization can detect and prevent attacks. This next-generation
enterprise platform streamlines day-to-day operations and boosts security efficacy, and the one-of-a-kind, multi-layered defense model prevents threats at each stage of the attack lifecycle. In January 2016, we partnered with Proofpoint, to provide our customers with extended protection from and intelligence into the sophisticated attacks targeting users, data and content via email and social media. Palo Alto Networks WildFire, a key component of the Palo Alto Networks security platform, when combined with Proofpoint TAP and Proofpoint SocialPatrol, offers ability to scan and, if necessary, remove malicious links throughout an organization’s social presence,.”
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Fortinet Launches Worldwide Network Security Academy Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today introduced the Fortinet Network Security Academy (FNSA). The FNSA is designed to develop and train action-oriented cybersecurity experts to manage new and advanced threats on the horizon. The Academy is designed to provide industry-recognized Fortinet training and certification opportunities to students KEN XIE, FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD AND around the world. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT FORTINET Students are prepared at international FNSA sites for success in a career in network security, obtaining both the theoretical lectures and hands-on laboratory practice needed to achieve a Fortinet certification. Seven organizations from the United States, Canada, and EMEA have joined the Academy now, with 20 additional global FNSA sites expected to open within the next quarter. Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Fortinet: “It’s no secret that security threats are increasing and impacting organizations in all industries, of all sizes, worldwide. Current estimates show up to one million cybersecurity job openings with demand expected to rise to 6 million globally by 2019. We are partnering with organizations around the globe, in an innovative way, to help fill the pipeline of cybersecurity experts needed to manage and thwart increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.”
ransom, hold a company for ransom etc The other trend we are seeing is the bulk export of Personally Identifiable Information from organizations Attacks with an intent to exploit the networking gear of an organization in order to have persistent access, to change security access control lists, to grant access to a protected environment, for reconnaissance purposes and for network traffic disruption. Exploitation of third parties to gain access to the intended organization
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Expanding to New Geographies How do you perceive the current threat and security landscape of the region? Few of the important threats in the security landscape in the region that we have noted are The malware infection rates in the
Middle East have been well above the worldwide average Cyber-attacks are being increasingly focused on SMEs as their cyber protection measures are relatively weak. Increase in the number of disruptive attacks namely those that hold data for
What are the various solutions that you go to market with? Our services solutions are grouped under Information Security Audit Services, Information Security Consulting Services and Managed Services. We are also PCI QSA and also provide consulting services for standards like ISO 27001 & NESA How does your partner ecosystem look like? We operate with partners across the Middle East, SE Asia & US. We are also looking at increasing our partner footprint in the GCC Define your organization´s prime security resolution in á sentence´. We at ValueMentor believe that a security program can be run efficiently without necessarily having to apportion large budgets.
DELIVERING MEASURABLE VALUE
MR. AADESH GAWDE, PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, PROVISE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY.
With ever growing use of Mobile device and hand held devices, end user technology foot print has increased to double fold. This has resultant into to wider threat landscape. All time connectivity is another issue which expose the users to cyber threat, malware and virus attack. UAE and Middle east is not too far behind from this threat. More embedded practices around RISK and COMPLIANCE is becoming a mandate along with the need of being cyber-aware and cyber-alert! ProVise prime security resolution is to deliver measurable value outcomes through the GRC capabilities enabling IT/IS organizations progress up the GRC maturity curve from being in SUPPORT role to SERVICE PROVIDER role to ENABLER role to DIFFERENTIATOR role. Talking about the security landscape of the region, he adds More attacks using Social Engineering exploiting Human behavior, Phishing, specially crafted malware attack, harvesting and stealing of personal information such as personal record and credit card information and Distribution of Denial of Service Attack will continue to rise in this region. Humans are still the weakest link and are easy targets but this risk can be mitigated if the SMART CYBERSECURITY projects take SMART APPROACH in managing risk along with SMART CYBER SECURITY AWARNESS initiatives, leading to a CYBER SAFE CITY. More attacks using Social Engineering exploiting Human behavior, Phishing, specially crafted malware attack, harvesting and stealing of personal information such as personal record and credit card information and Distribution of Denial of Service Attack will continue to rise in this region. Humans are still the weakest link and are easy targets but this risk can be mitigated if the SMART CYBERSECURITY projects take SMART APPROACH in managing risk along with SMART CYBER SECURITY AWARNESS initiatives, leading to a CYBER SAFE CITY.
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