Cyber-attacks are posing a greater threat to new digitalization and transformation initiatives across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia creating the need for new and advanced technologies, making Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning a necessity to maintain and protect networks or data in the future.
The organizers of the 6th 2018 Middle East and North Africa Information Security Conference, VirtuPort, identified a number of areas in which artificial intelligence offers real value to cyber defenses, including the ability to predict risk by analyzing more than 100 terabytes of global threat data per day, detection of attack patterns, anomalies that indicate possible incidents. Additionally, incident analysis, investigation and providing responses-based threats in order to quickly identify the attackers motive, identify it earlier in the attack chain, initiate automatic responses to the specific attack, which includes containment and recovery, mitigation and defensive improvements, creating a high level of cyber resilience and trust.
Strategic Alliance
The CEO of the 6th MENA Information Security Conference, Samer Omar, noted that artificial intelligence is being incorporated by both cybersecurity firms and hacking groups. The ability to use automated learning along with predictive technology in addition to other data science across substantial amounts of threat intelligence and data sources at near-real-time speeds provides a powerful weapon in cyber defense. This makes artificial intelligence and machine learning an invaluable ally within the framework of the modern and next generation cybersecurity practices.
He also added that this allows artificial intelligence to add great value before, during and after an organization has been attacked but is quick to point out that it cannot replace human factor. The 6th MENA Information Security Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Riyadh RDC Hotel & Convention with Saudi Telecom Company (STC) Business as the diamond sponsor. The conference will be attended by many international leading companies in the field of cybersecurity and information technology.
The 6th MENA Information Security Conference 2018 is in line with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program 2020, which aims to promote an advanced society in the technology sector and enhance the opportunities for top leaders and thinkers to meet in the field of information security in the Kingdom.
Cyber Threats
The conference will discuss a series of crucial topics by Saudi and international industry experts which will help in creating a society of information sharing leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning in the fight against cyber threats against governments, financial institutions, service providers and health care institutions in addition to the integrity of sensitive national information infrastructures.
In addition to STC Business; this year’s conference boasts an increase in sponsorship on all levels including many returning sponsors upgrading due to the success of the MENA ISC 2017 event. The MENA Information Security Conference 2018 is also sponsored by A10 and Netscout | Arbor as Platinum Sponsors joined by Accenture, Aiuken Cybersecurity, Cisco, F5, Forcepoint, Fortinet, Kaspersky, McAfee, Micro Focus, Obrela Security Industries, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Symantec, Tenable as the gold sponsors.
Silver sponsors of the MENA Information Security Conference include, Anomali, Attivo Networks, Barracuda, Carbon Black, Citrix, CybrScore, Infoblox, Intel471, (ISC)2, Lookout, Qualys, RSA, SaasPass, Tripwire, Wipro and Zero Fox. Other Sponsors include, Marcom Arabia, W7Worldwide and CISOMAG