EC News DeskOn December 17, Global CIO Forum in association with F5 and Exclusive Networks successfully hosted the App Security: Why Advanced Threats Require Advanced Application Defense virtual roundtable. Apps enable the business to capture opportunities and customers, but attackers can disrupt strategic outcomes for financial gain. It is critical to protect apps and APIs across architectures, clouds, and third-party integrations to reduce risks and speed up digital transformation. Increasing application development velocity improves time to market and reduces friction. Protecting critical assets with the highest real-world security efficacy is of paramount importance.
Topics covered
- Why apps drive a business
- Application layer security
- Defeating application fraud
The speaker
The keynote speaker for the App Security: Why Advanced Threats Require Advanced Application Defense virtual roundtable was Yasser El Mashad, Cyber Security Specialist at F5. His presentation was followed by a round of Q&A.
About GCF Unite VirtualSummit
Global CIO Forum’s GCF Unite VirtualSummit 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 VirtualSummit 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 technocrats and 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 and IT executives.
