Agenda
IT Security Summit
One Day Event
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IDC Welcome Address
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (META), IDC
IDC Keynote: Orchestrating Resilience Amid Transformation, Regulation, and Emerging Threats
META’s cybersecurity agenda is shaped by unprecedented digital acceleration, regulatory dynamism, and the proliferation of advanced threats across IT, OT, and cloud. As organizations embrace AI, platform-centric architectures, and hybrid environments, the attack surface expands and adversaries become more sophisticated—leveraging GenAI, identity compromise, and cyber-physical exploits. At the same time, regulatory mandates around data sovereignty and trust are intensifying. CISOs are challenged to orchestrate holistic defense strategies that unify technology, process, and people: integrating real-time detection, adaptive controls, and continuous compliance, while investing in workforce upskilling and AI augmentation. Achieving resilience in this environment demands a proactive, inclusive approach—balancing innovation, operational continuity, and regulatory alignment across the region’s diverse digital landscape.
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (META), IDC
Defending in the Mythos era: AI’s impact on future of SecOps
Agentic AI is the new frontier and it’s pushing security teams into uncharted territory. The lines between defenders and machines are blurring, and new threats overwhelm traditional defenses. It’s why you need agentic SecOps. This session will provide practical insights and strategies for building the modern, human-led agentic SOC that operates at machine speed and scale.
Yaman Hakmi
Director, Solutions Engineer, Splunk a Cisco Company
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AI Security Gaps: Managing Risk in the Era of Enterprise AI
As organizations accelerate AI adoption to drive innovation, productivity, and business transformation, they are also expanding their cybersecurity risk landscape.
Many enterprises still face challenges in establishing the visibility, governance, and control mechanisms required to secure AI-enabled environments effectively. These gaps can create vulnerabilities across data protection, model integrity, access management, and regulatory compliance.
To unlock the full value of AI with confidence, organizations must adopt a structured, risk-based approach to identifying, prioritizing, and addressing security gaps. Strengthening AI governance and resilience enables businesses to scale AI initiatives securely while maintaining trust, compliance, and operational excellence.
Saghir Khan
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, SBM
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Operationalizing Cybersecurity Through Outcome-Based Delivery, Quantified Risk, and Resilience-First Prioritization
Cybersecurity leaders are increasingly challenged to demonstrate how security investment translates into measurable business outcomes. This session explores how organizations can operationalize cybersecurity through outcome-based delivery, quantified cyber risk, and resilience-first prioritization. Moving beyond fragmented tools and isolated initiatives, the discussion will focus on building security models aligned with operational continuity, faster recovery, and measurable risk reduction. Attendees will gain practical perspectives on prioritizing investments based on business impact and strengthening resilience through repeatable, outcome-driven cyber operations.
Notis Iliopoulos
EVP of MRC, Obrela
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Unlocking Your Unfair Advantage Against AI Adversaries
Attackers use AI to strike in minutes. To adapt, we must shift our perspective from manual reaction to automated mobilization. This session demonstrates how to utilize a ‘virtual crew’ of AI agents to ingest intelligence, build attack playbooks, simulate threats to find gaps, and mobilize fixes.
Tarek Kuzbari
Vice President EMEA, Picus Security
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Building Resilient, Intelligent Networks for the AI Era
AI workloads, autonomous agents, and machine-driven traffic are pushing enterprise networks beyond their breaking point. This session explores why legacy architectures are failing under distributed inference and intelligent adversaries, then shares five immutable principles for the next-generation network.
Saddam Alsad
Senior Sales Manager, Saudi Arabia, Cloudflare
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AI Resilience in the New Threat Landscape: Prompt Attacks and Business Risk
As organizations rapidly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI technologies, a new cybersecurity threat is emerging through prompt-based attacks and AI manipulation techniques. These threats can compromise AI behavior, expose sensitive information, disrupt business operations, and erode organizational trust. This session explores the evolving risks associated with prompt injection attacks, jailbreak techniques, and malicious AI interactions, while highlighting their impact on enterprise security and business continuity. The discussion will focus on how organizations can strengthen AI resilience through proactive detection, secure AI design, governance, and risk management strategies.
Attendees will gain practical insights into building resilient AI systems that can withstand emerging threats while enabling innovation, operational stability, and trusted adoption of generative AI technologies.
Bushra Alhetelah
Detection and Intelligence Fusion Specialist, Cyberani
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Ensuring Cyber Resilience In An Era of Destructive Attacks
As ransomware and sophisticated threats grow more destructive, prevention alone is no longer enough. This session explores how organizations can leverage modern data security platforms to withstand attacks, recover rapidly, and maintain business continuity when defenses are breached.
Hisham AlSuwi
Senior System Engineer, Cohesity
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Your Vulnerability Management Program Is Working Against You: Why Hacking Yourself Is the Future of Exposure Management
Vulnerability management has been on life support for years, creating noise instead of reducing risk. In the age of Mythos and AI-augmented threat actors, what matters is exploitability, how it can be chained into real attack paths, and the business impact it creates; not log lists of CVE’s. With the advancement of AI, security teams are now able to hack themselves continuously and at scale, therefore moving beyond static counts and outdated severity scores toward Risk Based Exposure Management with focus on real world attack paths.
Rami Gherbal
Senior Solutions Engineer, EMEA, Horizon3.AI
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Tea/ Coffee & Networking Break
Platinum Tracks (Parallel Sessions)
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Platinum Track A
11:30AM – 11:45AM
The Future of Security Operations in the Age of AI: Transforming Data into Intelligence, Action, and Trust
Sultan Alanazi
Country Regional Director, Exabeam
11:45AM – 12:00PM
Navigating the AI Era with Intelligent Data Security
Wissam Alkhaldi
Regional Manager of Sales Engineering, Forcepoint
Platinum Track B
11:30AM – 11:45AM
From Cyber Risk to Cyber Resilience: Building a Recovery Strategy for Modern Threats
Tarek Elsabaa
Regional Advisory Systems Engineer | Security Platform, Dell Technologies
11:45AM – 12:00PM
Managing Your Security Vendor Portfolio
Tom Seal
Senior Research Director, Enterprise Software Sourcing Strategies, IDC
Gold Tracks (Parallel Sessions)
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Gold Track A
12:00PM – 12:15PM
When AI Attacks AI
Siva Prakash
Security Specialist, ManageEngine
12:15PM – 12:30PM
Reimagining Mobile App Security in the AI Age
Pushkar Singh
Country Head, MEA, Protectt.AI
12:30PM – 1:00PM
End User Panel Discussion: Secure AI in Action: Lessons from CISOs
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (META), IDC
Thamer Alrowidhan
Chief Information Security Officer, Leading Government Entity
Eng. Khalid Alfaheid
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA)
Asma Alyemni
Chief Information Security Officer, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation
Dr. Saleh Alharbi
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Shaqra University
Gold Track B
12:00PM – 12:15PM
The Identity Attack Frontier
Charbel Chekie
Lead Sales Engineer, Delinea
12:15PM – 12:30PM
What All Saudi Compliance Frameworks Agree On
Georgy Ovanesyan
CEO, Axidian
12:30PM – 1:00PM
End User Panel Discussion: Identity Security: The New Battleground
Tom Seal
Senior Research Director, Enterprise Software Sourcing Strategies, IDC
Abdulaziz Alarfaj
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Confidential
Dr. Abdullah A. Alnajem
Head of Cybersecurity & Data Protection, Confidential
Aamir Khalid Pirzada
Chief Information Officer (CIO), National Metal Manufacturing & Casting
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