EC News DeskOn June 15, Global CIO Forum presented leading cybersecurity experts from IronNet Cybersecurity, for a WebSummit titled Collective Defence: The only option to defeat today’s cyber threats. CyberKnight was the event partner for this WebSummit.
Collective defence is a proactive, collaborative approach to cybersecurity that involves organizations working together within and across sectors to defend against targeted cyber threats. By sharing correlated threat behaviours across the ecosystem, participating organizations can mutually aid in the detection, remediation, and mitigation of cyber threats to individual enterprises, business ecosystems, industry sectors, states, and nations.
Topics covered
The WebSummit focused on how organizations can solve even their most complex cyber challenges. Topics covered included:
- The current level of advanced threats and their targets and methods
- How to apply the accepted principle of collective defence to better protect your company.
- Why current cyber defences routinely fail.
- How to get beyond legacy signature-based detection to more effective behaviour-based alerts.
- How to leverage the strengths of the group to cover the vulnerabilities of individuals.
The session
The welcome note and introductions for the Collective Defence WebSummit were handled by Joel Bork, Threat Hunter at IronNet Cybersecurity. He also set the backdrop for the current cybersecurity landscape and the need for collaboration.
The keynote speaker was Brett Williams, Maj Gen USAF (Ret) and Co-Founder and COO of IronNet Cybersecurity. He explored the current level of advanced threats and talked about applying the accepted principle of Collective Defence to better protect organisations.
This was followed by a demo session. Closing remarks were by Alexandre Depret Bixio, Regional Director Middle East, Turkey and Africa at IronNet Cybersecurity.
The WebSummit brought together 80+ CISOs, CIOs and IT heads from UAE, KSA, Qatar and Kuwait.
About GCF Unite WebSummit
Global CIO Forum’s GCF Unite WebSummit is an online webinar that is aimed towards creating a global technology leaders’ community whose ultimate goal is to Integrate, Influence, Impact CIOs and tech leaders. The GCF Unite WebSummit will host a series of events in multiple chapters and 30+ countries featuring successful local Tech leaders, CIOs, IT Directors, innovators, educators and investors who share business leadership best practices, and lessons learned on the road to building great future with help of technocrat & technology.
About Global CIO Forum
The role of a CIO is one of the most critical one in today’s business and industry. Today, CIOs hold the future of innovation, productivity and competitiveness in their hands. At the Global CIO Forum, we not only provide our members with an exchange forum for best IT leadership strategies and practices to enhance business results, but we are also developing a strong voice to ensure that CIOs are represented at key industry and government decision tables. In other words: Integrate. Influence. Impact.
The Global CIO Forum’s mission is to represents IT Executives and CIOs globally. Currently working in META region and with expansion plans globally, the Global CIO Forum is a non-profit community of CIOs and IT leaders whose mission is to facilitate networking, sharing of best practices and executive development, and to collaborate on issues faced by the CIOs/IT Executives.
