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Two days of artificial intelligence talks led by world experts, demonstrating what the potential ROI is to your organisation by adopting AI.

World’s First AIGenerated Score to be Unveiled

he global AI market is expected to reach USD 15.7 trillion by 2030 reports PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This is expected to be mainly due to the society-shaping computer science and machine learning that continue to play an increasingly important role in global governance, business and daily life. Constant innovations and new economic opportunities emanating from increasing AI adoption

are set to contribute $96 billion to the UAE’s economy by 2030 and the latest innovations and AI trends will take centre stage at the Future Tech Week Expo (FTW) 2018. Highlighting its position at the forefront of the emerging tech revolution, the agendasetting expo will witness a world-first when the firstever AI composed song dedicated to a city is released. Pierre Barreau, CEO of AIVA Technologies, is the man and mind behind the world’s first

AI-composed song for a city, which will be unveiled on day one of FTW. As a computer scientist, award nominated director and composer, Pierre leads the company towards its vision of fueling the world with personalised music. Barreau will make a keynote speech at the event following the launch of ‘Ode to Dubai’ on May 1. He said: “Dubai is an innovative, fastpaced city, known for its ambitious and record-breaking projects.”

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KEY SPEAKERS OF THE DAY KAMRAN AHSAN, SENIOR DIRECTOR SECURITY SOLUTIONS, ETISALAT DIGITAL

MR. JAMIE BUTLER, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, ENDGAME

MR FUAD AL-ANSARI, VP INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ADNOC REFINING

MR JARKKO RAUTULA, GROUP CISO, IKEA GROUP

Mimecast to Demonstrate Cyber Resilience for Email Mimecast will address the growing issue of targeted cyberattacks, at this year’s, GISEC. Mimecast will highlight on defending against malicious attachments, dangerous file types, impersonation attacks and spam to help provide customers with Cyber Resilience for Email. By showcasing its full-range of advanced email security and data protection services, including new enhancements to Targeted Threat Protection, Mimecast will highlight the importance of building a cyber resilience strategy in an evolving cyber threat landscape. Cyber resilience expert, Hany George, will give a talk and perform live hacks to reveal simple techniques that hackers use to infiltrate organisations. These demonstrations will show how organisations can protect themselves against advanced cyber BRANDON BEKKER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, MIMECAST MEA attacks like impersonation fraud. According to Mimecast’s recent and volume of advanced attacks that lead to financial quarterly Email Security Risk Assessand intellectual property loss, unplanned downtime and ment (ESRA) report, incumbent email security systems decreased productivity,” said Brandon Bekker, Managing are not providing sufficient security protection against Director at Mimecast MEA. known malware and impersonation attacks. It highlighted “We encourage our customers to embrace a cyber resilthat 23,072 impersonation attacks were caught – increasience for email strategy that empowers them to secure, ing 22% in comparison quarter over quarter. “A defencepreserve and continue the flow of information via email. only security strategy does not protect against the level

Despite investments in defence, attackers continue to innovate, developing advanced email-borne threats that are no match for defence systems. Mimecast will use the region’s largest security conference to educate IT decision makers about the need to provide comprehensive security controls before, continuity during, and automated recovery after an attack,” Bekker added.

Businesses at Risk Due to Unidentified Network Traffic Sophos released the findings of its global survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls, which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45% of their organization’s network traffic. In fact, nearly one-in-four cannot identify 70% of their network traffic. The lack of visibility creates significant security challenges for today’s businesses and impacts effective network management. The survey polled more than 2,700 IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses in 10 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa. Considering the debilitating impact cyber-attacks can have on a business, it’s unsurprising that 84 percent of respondents agree that a lack of application visibility is a serious security concern. Without the ability to identify what’s running on their network, IT managers are blind to ransomware, unknown malware, data breaches and other advanced threats, as well as potentially malicious applications and rogue users. Network firewalls with signature-based detection are unable to provide adequate visibility into application traffic due to a variety of factors such as the increasing use of encryption, browser emulation, and advanced evasion techniques. “If you can’t see everything on your network, you can’t ever be confident that your organization is protected from threats. IT professionals have been ‘flying blind’ for too long and cybercriminals take advantage of this,” said Dan Schiappa, senior vice president and general manager of products at Sophos. “With governments worldwide introducing stiffer penalties for data breach and loss, knowing who and what is on your network is becoming increasingly important. This dirty secret can’t be ignored any longer.”

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Carbon Black to Showcase Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) at GISEC

RICK MCELROY, SECURITY STRATEGIST FROM CARBON BLACK

Carbon Black will be participating at GISEC for the fourth consecutive year, which will be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 1st to 3rd of May 2018 in conjunction with IoTx, under the umbrella of The Future of Technology Week. Carbon Black will showcase the Cb Predictive Security Cloud™, a converged endpoint protection platform that deliv-

ers next-generation security and IT operations services through the cloud and ensures products and services are delivered in an effective and timely manner. Traditional endpoint security programs often require multiple, independent systems running their own resource-intensive agents, which can bog down end users and complicate platform management. We believe the Cb

Predictive Security Cloud provides a comprehensive and effective approach to endpoint protection, delivering greater visibility and better prevention capabilities to combat today’s advanced threats. Carbon Black will also be discussing the recently launched Cb Integration Network (CbIN), a technology partner program designed to improve cybersecurity through collective defence and powered by Carbon Black’s open APIs and the PSC. Rick McElroy, Security Strategist from Carbon Black said: “There are growing concerns around advanced threats across the Middle East and companies in the region are keen to build and maintain strong change management and quality assurance practices to combat cybercriminals. During GISEC 2018, we will be showcasing how these companies can leverage the power of the Cb Predictive Security Cloud.”

SANS Experts Share Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques

JAMES LYNE, HEAD OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, SANS INSTITUTE

Experts from SANS recently presented the five most dangerous new cyber-attack techniques in their annual RSA keynote session in San Francisco, and shared their views on how they work, how they can be stopped or at least slowed, and how businesses and consumers can prepare. The five threats outlined are: 1) Repositories and Cloud Storage Data Leakage. 2) Big Data Analytics, De-Anonymization, and Correlation. 3) Attackers Monetize Compromised Systems Using Crypto Coin Miners. 4) Recognition of Hardware Flaws. 5) More Malware and Attacks Disrupting ICS and Utilities Instead of Seeking Profit. Ed Skoudis, a top hacker exploits expert, SANS Faculty Fellow and lead for the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum, talked about the data leakage threats facing us from the increased use of repositories and cloud storage: “Software today is built in a very different way than it was 10 or even 5 years ago, with vast online code repositories for collaboration and cloud data storage hosting missioncritical applications. However, attackers are increasingly targeting these kinds of repositories and cloud storage infrastructures, looking for passwords, crypto keys, access tokens, and terabytes of sensitive data.” He continued: “Defenders need to focus on data inventories, appointing a data curator for their organization and educating system architects and developers about how to secure data assets in the cloud. Additionally, the big cloud companies have each launched an AI service to help classify and defend data in their infrastructures. And finally, a variety of free tools are available that can help prevent and detect leakage of secrets through code repositories.”

JUNIPER NETWORKS REVEALS THE EXPANSION OF CONTRAIL ENTERPRISE MULTICLOUD Juniper Networks reveals expansion of Contrail Enterprise Multicloud to enable end-to-end policy and control capability for any workload running in physical and virtual environments, any cloud and across multivendor environments. Contrail Enterprise Multicloud integrates both overlay and underlay management into an open platform. Whether an enterprise is looking for device or fabric management, or overlay policy and control, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud provides a unified approach to enterprise operations that streamlines workflows and improves end-to-end visibility across bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers, along with network devices. Understanding that any evolution requires the graceful coexistence of both existing and new infrastructure, Juniper has architected Contrail Enterprise Multicloud to support multivendor environments. Based on open interfaces and standard protocols, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud can be inserted into diverse networking environments, allowing enterprises to avoid unnecessary vendor lock-in. Additionally, for the vast majority of enterprises, the multicloud evolution may play out over multiple steps as enterprises adopt and deploy new technology. Enterprises will need to leverage every opportunity to ensure they are simultaneously meeting existing requirements while also becoming multicloud-ready. To help facilitate this progression, along with the technology advancements in Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, Juniper is delivering a newly unveiled 5-step multicloud migration framework that is intended to provide enterprises with a set of best practices, natural technology insertions and recommended products and services to more easily complete the journey to a secure and automated multicloud.

Etisalat Digital to highlight innovative digital security offerings at GISEC Etisalat Digital will be participating at GISEC which highlights its continued commitment to build awareness, showcase its digital security solutions, collaborate with industry peers, and share insights on the latest security trends. Kamran Ahsan, Senior Director, Digital Security Solutions, Etisalat Digital, will be a speaker on May 1. His presentation titled ‘Building Digital Resilience for Digital Businesses’ establishes a context of digital adoption by businesses and highlights a new dimension of risks. In view of latest security incidents in various industry verticals, a pragmatic approach will be presented for continuous digital security and defense.In addition, Etisalat Digital Security experts will be present at Stand number B18 demonstrating a wide range of innovative security offerings covering areas of Network Security, Cyber Security and Security Operations. Etisalat Digital Security experts will also be conducting demonstrations at the X-Labs on all three days of the event to highlight Etisalat’s unique “Advanced Cyber Defense” proposition. A presentation titled “Demystifying Cyber Threat Intelligence” will be delivered by one of the experts on the final day of the event for the banking, financial services and insurance industries. Etisalat Digital’s Security Solutions has been delivering cutting edge digital security offerings to businesses in the UAE powered from a state of the art in-country Global Security Operations Centre. Its robust portfolio across Network, Managed and Cyber Security has been proactively safeguarding business customers from impending cyber-attacks.

SCOTT MANSON, CYBERSECURITY LEAD - MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA, CISCO

Cisco to Advocate That it’s Time to Put Security Above Everything Cisco will address the maturing and more sophisticated tradecraft by attackers and will spotlight how adversaries are evolving their approaches to exploit new technology security gaps at this

year’s Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference (GISEC). Themed, Security Above Everything, Cisco believes that organisations need to start building an industry wide culture – whether they

are moving to the cloud, launching a new product, bringing on new digital devices – where security must be top of mind and integrated seamlessly into everything the organisations does. As a Platinum Partner, Cisco will address why securing networks and IT infrastructure is mission-critical for businesses to succeed today and build for tomorrow and discuss the evolving role of security. “Cisco delivers the breadth of innovation, so network and security teams can set the pace for securing their organisations with the visibility and protection necessary for users and workloads that drive business. Our portfolio is built on coordinated threat intelligence becoming an action to detect, prevent or respond. If we want to succeed in the fight to protect our networks, it’s time to put Security Above Everything,” said Scott Manson, Cybersecurity Lead – Middle East and Africa, Cisco. “Defenders are implementing a complex mix of products from a cross-section of vendors to protect against breaches. This complexity and growth in breaches has many downstream effects on an organization’s ability to defend against attacks, such as increased risk of losses. Today, nearly half of all legitimate security alerts are not remediated, and it’s clear that a more cohesive approach is required. Cisco’s deep and broad view of threat data across endpoint, network and cloud, through email, web, and applications means that we know more about what is trying to attack our customers and therefore how to stop it from succeeding,” Scott Manson concluded.

FIREEYE’S WAR ROOM

FireEye is organizing a Cyber Attack Simulation experience at Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC), which takes place from May 1-3, 2018.. In the Cyber War Room which is an augmented reality experience, customers can have the opportunity to sit inside FireEye’s War Room. They can choose and participate in one of three attack scenarios from Iranian, Russian or Chinese groups. The experience will allow for them to participate in a live hacking experience and witness remediation options. Secret briefing by FireEye - Customer can join Madiant Director Alister Shephard as he walks through the right way to manage cyber events inside and outside of organizations. You They will get to experience a 360-degree view of an incident and how experts take back control during a real-time attack.

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