GEC NEWS WIREAs the security breaches are becoming rampant in the Middle East and Africa region, it becomes incumbent upon every responsible security vendor to work on the security awareness.
Cyber security is one of the hottest topics today in the market due to the growing threat landscape and attack vectors. The biggest challenge apart from the technology is awareness about the whole thing. Looking at the market requirement, Spectrami along with Imtac organized an information security event aka Cyber Security Trendz 2015 in Oman during the last week of May.
Started at 9:00 o’clock on 27th may 2015, Cyber Security Trendz 2015, Oman witnessed a gathering of more than 45 C-level executives from various vertical industries including Oil & Gas, BFSI, Govt. Aviation, hospitality, etc.
The event highlighted the presentation of Amar Singh, Founder & CEO, Cyber Management Alliance and Industry Influencer & Leader. He addressed the audience about today’s infrastructure with challenges of tomorrow and protecting their infrastructure. He mused on the trends in the industry and how one can defend his/her organization. Also in the forum were leading vendors in the security solutions including Fidelis, LogRhythm and Tenable who addressed the audience.
Speaking about the context Anand Choudha, MD, Spectrami said that there is a huge opportunity in the security market in the region. Every alternative day there is some news regarding security breaches; therefore we require a concerted approach to address the whole market. “Today, we are fortunate that we have Amar Singh, Founder & CEO, Cyber Management Alliances on our side who bringshis expertise on the whole subject. We have collaborated together to bring out standard programmes to help the user community here,” he added.
“We started off with our event from Oman some days back, where we got good number of CISOs who attended and Amar had workshops with them. Not only did he speak about the present situation of the cyber security specific to this region and how could they mitigate those threats but also he tried to evaluate the readiness of those companies,” he maintained.
Amar Singh said, “Globally and in this region too advanced persistent threat is definitely is the biggest cause of concern but the challenge is not about knowing the time of attack but it is about how to respond to the attack. In the western countries, the focus has shifted from the attack to response of the attack within a short span of time. So our objective is to make the organisations and people to detect the attack and respond to the attacks.”
Anand added, “I am happy that so many people came and joined us. I would like to thank our partners who put up a great show. We know that 30% of the entire defence against the attacks is technology and 70% is about people, process and understanding about it. Therefore a lot of education has to be to be done in this, where we felt the gap lies.”
Anand also revealed that in October they are planning an event in this region for the CISOs of the top organisations to come together for a workshop where Amar will create the framework and during that workshop, the CISOs will come out with a white paper around threats and mitigation specific to the Middle East market.
One of the CXOs who were present in the event said, “I find this event to be very informative. I would urge the security vendors across the region to come forward and work aggressively on the awareness creation in this region as Spectrami and Imtac have done today.”
