Events

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An Identity Centric Approach to Cybersecurity: Building on Zero Trust

Jeremy Grant • September 19, 2022

With the IAM framework growing to fame, most practitioners are toying with the idea of using IAM to address their organization’s challenges, including security, trust, risk appetite, and managing the critical business risk to drive more value. How can identity be a business enabler in the digital transformation...

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Industry 4.0: How to Protect Your Data in This Critical Era

Dr. Haji Amirudin Bin Abdul Wahab, CEO, CyberSecurity Malaysia , Steve Uma, CIO & Head, Information Services and Technology, NSIA Insurance Limited • September 19, 2022

The interconnected nature of Industry 4.0-driven operations means that cyberattacks can have far more severe impacts than ever before. As enterprises adopt Industry 4.0, they become an increasingly appealing target for attackers who can now move laterally across a network, jumping across IT and OT systems for their...

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Plenary: Africa Cybersecurity Policy: How Practical is it?

Varsha Sewlal (Conference Chair), Executive : Legal and Deputy Information Officer, Railway Safety Regulator , Julius Torach, Commissioner, Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communications Technology • September 19, 2022

The European Union has the GDPR - a common privacy law across the region. Most regions have not been able to replicate GDPR – a common privacy law. The United States too has not been able to agree upon a common privacy law. Regulators of various countries in Africa want to see a common cybersecurity law. How...

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Cloud Security With Zero Trust: A Strategic Approach

Albert Yirenchi Danquah, CISO, Stanbic Bank Ghana • September 19, 2022

It has been predicted that public cloud services will grow and reach a record $420 billion by 2022. The massive increase in cloud adoption has motivated cybercriminals to target the cloud environments where most data resides now. Around mid-2021, the International Data Corporation (IDC) surveyed 200 CISOs and reported...

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Mobile Application Security: Getting Ahead of Criminals

Zechariah Akinpelu, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Unity Bank Plc , Tunde Dada, Group Head IT/BCM, inq. Digital • September 19, 2022

The latest statistics by the IDC show that smartphone vendors shipped a total of 19.7 million smartphones across Africa in the first quarter of 2022. More users than ever before rely on mobile applications compared to traditional desktop applications for a majority of their digital tasks. High-profile data thefts like...

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Are CISOs Seeing Value of XDR? An Implementation Strategy

Philip Aiwekhoe, Chief Information Security Officer/DPO, NPF Microfinance Bank Plc • September 19, 2022

Today, extended detection and response (XDR)’s adoption among enterprises is at 5% and is predicted to increase to 40% by 2027. CISOs from leading organizations are commencing XDR implementations to keep up with the evolving threat landscape. Along with the rapid adoption of XDR, there is often a lack of clarity...

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Panel: Third-Party Risk Management: How to Evolve a Program

Chinenye Chizea, Consulting Security Architect, World Bank and Federal Government of Nigeria, Digital Identification for Development (ID4D) project , Dr. (h.c)Fene Osakwe, Director, Group IT, GRC and Strategy, IHS Towers , Kenneth Palliam, President, ISACA South Africa Chapter , Dr. (h.c) Bharat Soni, CISO,DPO, GTBank Plc. • September 19, 2022

With breaches involving third-party vendors regularly making the headlines, most companies have become aware of the risks created by this extended attack surface — often because they have been victims themselves. By following the right path, security and risk leaders can feel confident in their approach to managing...

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How Can CIO and CISO Collaborate for a Shared Vision

Nastassja Finnegan, Cyber Security Officer, FNB South Africa • September 19, 2022

The session discusses how to get a CIO and the CISO work on a common goal to facilitate the continued success of their organization. Where is the disconnect and how can these gaps be addressed? The session will cover: Understanding the CIO’s challenges and technology aspirations The importance of...

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Fortify Healthcare: Scaling Defenses in Age of Globalization

Tom Field • August 31, 2022

No secret: Public cloud provides the technical catalyst to the healthcare industry’s modernization and the keys to the kingdom in terms of globalization. The resulting access to usable swaths of data is invaluable - and high-risk. ClearDATA's Chris Bowen weighs in on mitigating the risks.

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Business Email Compromise: Secret Service on How to Respond

Tom Field • August 31, 2022

Ransomware gets the headlines, and phishing sets off the most alerts, but business email compromise costs enterprises the most - more than $43 billion since 2016. U.S. Secret Service agents Stephen Dougherty and Michael Johns discuss the criticality of rapid detection and response.

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Simplified Approach to Solving Modern Security Complexities

Ajay Kumar Dubey, Channel Director, Forcepoint , Ankit Sofet, Regional Sales Manager, Forcepoint • August 31, 2022

Organizations that depended upon traditional, centralized networks and designated offices found themselves suddenly in a highly distributed world, with employees working from anywhere. Application migration to the cloud in the form of SaaS from third-party providers or as a private cloud with AWS or Azure became the...

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Plenary Session: Updating Your Cybersecurity Strategy in the New World: Are CISOs Tuned In?

Dr. Sanjay Bahl • August 18, 2022

It’s no longer a matter of if, but when you’re going to be the victim of a cyberattack. Are the organizations prepared? With the increasing attacks on critical infrastructure, securing it is no longer a theory. Post SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, Log4j and Ukraine, it’s a different world today. Hence, a...

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A Strategic Approach to Cloud Security With 'Zero Trust'

Sujit Nair, Cloud Security Architect - APAC, Palo Alto Networks , Deepak Prasad, Customer Engineer, Security Specialist, Google Cloud • August 18, 2022

It has been predicted that public cloud services will grow and reach a record $420 billion by 2022. The massive increase in cloud adoption has motivated cybercriminals to target the cloud environments where most data resides now. Around mid-last year, IDC surveyed 200 CISOs and reported that nearly 98% of the...

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Keynote: Enterprise Cybersecurity Resilience in 2022 and Beyond: Resetting Your Cyber Plans

Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Rajesh Pant, National Cybersecurity Coordinator-PMO, Govt. of India • August 18, 2022

With the ongoing hybrid cyberwar, cyberattacks are at an all-time high and have become a permanent and persistent threat for cybersecurity teams. Cybersecurity leaders are under constant fear of how to fend off an attack by a well-equipped nation-state. Given the situation is “not if a cyberattack will happen,...

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Continuous AI Loop: Turning the Tables on Cyberattackers

Dr. Oakley Cox, PhD, Analyst Technical Director, APAC, Darktrace • August 18, 2022

In the face of skyrocketing cyber risk, detecting and responding to attacks is no longer enough. Still, hardening systems is essential to a proactive approach to preventing threats. Darktrace presents an ambitious new security vision with a Self-Learning feedback ‘loop’ enabled by AI technology to prevent, detect,...