Charles CooperConsulting Editor
The RSA Conference 2021 Virtual Experience is happening May 17-20 and Symantec, as a division of Broadcom, will be providing a summary of some of the leading stories from the conference to help you stay informed.
After a tumultuous and draining 2020, it’s not surprising to see the term ‘resilience’ featured prominently during so many sessions at the RSA Conference 2021. And just in case some missed the message, the show organizers adopted the word as the show’s official motto this year.
But what does resilience mean for the security world? As enterprises turbocharge their digital transformation plans, security teams will need to find ways to stop cohorts of increasingly sophisticated threat actors from exploiting mistakes to steal their coveted data. After a tumultuous and draining 2020, it’s not surprising to see the term ‘resilience’ featured prominently during so many sessions at the RSA Conference 2021. In the face of that challenge, resilience speaks to a mindset and an approach for a profession that must meet the new demands of a fast-changing world. And not just in North America or Europe. The conference organizers brought together a panel featuring four Chief Information Security Officers from the Middle East to hear what resiliency meant to them.
The panelists included Abeer Khedr, the Information Security Director for the National Bank of Egypt, Arwa Alhamad, the Cyber Security Enablement Director of the Saudi Telecom Company, Biju Hameed, the Director of Technology Infrastructure and Operations for Dubai Airports and Dr. Reem Al-Shammari, the Digital Transformation Leader of Corporate Solutions and Digital Oil Fields for the Kuwait Oil Company. The following excerpts have been edited for clarity. Khedr:
I'm the CISO of the national bank of Egypt, the largest in the country by market share. The constantly evolving threat landscape is the primary challen ..
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