IDC Security Summit
Cybersecurity Leadership: Bridging the Gap Between Tech and Strategy in the AI Era
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Overview
The cybersecurity landscape is increasingly complex, with organizations facing a dynamic array of threats that require a comprehensive understanding of the latest practices and technologies. Key areas of focus include security operations, application and cloud security, AI-driven security solutions, network security, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
Overall, the cybersecurity landscape demands constant vigilance, innovation, and a deep understanding of emerging technologies and strategies. IDC Security Summit provides an essential platform for professionals to stay informed, exchange knowledge, and develop the skills needed to protect their organizations in this rapidly changing environment.
Why attend?
The cybersecurity landscape is rapidly evolving, presenting unprecedented defensive challenges due to AI integration, Industry 4.0’s interconnectedness, and future quantum computing implications, with a recent IDC survey indicating that 77% of META organizations expect their current cyber defenses to be overwhelmed within two years. However, the industry is proactively leveraging these same technologies to counteract threats by augmenting cyber defenses with AI, quantum-proofing security systems, and upskilling the workforce. Despite these proactive measures, 53% of CISOs express concerns about their organization’s ability to detect and respond to insider threats in a timely manner. This highlights a crucial gap in current cybersecurity strategies, necessitating more robust and comprehensive approaches. To stay ahead of AI-driven threats, it is imperative for Saudi organizations to overhaul their cybersecurity strategies, integrating AI-driven technologies for enhanced threat detection, response, and prevention. By doing so, they can fortify their defenses, protect critical infrastructure, and support the nation’s ambitious digital transformation goals.
Join the 10th edition of IDC Security Summit to gain crucial insights from CISO’s, analysts, and solution providers on the latest trends, challenges, and innovations, empowering you to implement advanced, future-proof security measures and secure your organization’s digital future.
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Our Partners
Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world.
CatchProbe
CATCHPROBE is the world’s first AI-driven, SaaS-based, centralized, and autonomous intelligence platform (Intelligency Suite, version IDA Mountain). Our company is internationally recognized for providing actionable web intelligence, OSINT, deception scenarios, threat intelligence, and digital crime analytics solutions through powerful modules that enhance each other’s capabilities.
CATCHPROBE is a modular, centralized, and integrated digital intelligence orchestration platform, designed for intelligence gathering, enrichment, deception creation and management, attacker profiling, data leak analysis, and proactive attack prevention. Our platform collects the intelligence, enriches the data, establishes connections between sources, generates reports, and accelerates the detection and prevention of threats through accurate analysis.
In addition to verified threat intelligence data collected from public and private sources, deception systems (AI-Based Autonomous Deceptions), leaked data (Leak DBs) and dark/deep web resources are also utilized by CATCHPROBE and accessed through the centralized interface.
Manage Engine
ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of IT management solutions for organizations across the world. With a powerful, flexible, and AI-powered digital enterprise management platform, we help businesses get their work done from anywhere and everywhere—better, safer, and faster. To learn more, visit www.manageengine.com
CloudFlare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications, and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day.
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Rubrik
Rubrik’s mission is to secure the world’s data. Cybercriminals never sleep, and neither does Rubrik. By 2025, the cybercrime business will be worth $10 trillion, making it the third-largest economy in the world. To fight back, you need a way to secure your data, monitor for data risks, and quickly recover your data no matter where it lives. Rubrik helps you achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. It secures your data wherever it lives — across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS — making your business unstoppable.
SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard delivers the world’s most powerful, AI-driven platform that identifies cyber risk across all attack surfaces. Powered by the largest proprietary risk & threat intelligence dataset on the planet, SecurityScorecard takes customers from risk identification to resolution. With the world’s most trusted security ratings and AI-powered analytics, SecurityScorecard is trusted by 70,000 global enterprises and 70% of the Fortune 1000. Visit securityscorecard.com for details.
ISACA
As an independent, nonprofit, global association, ISACA engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. Previously known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, ISACA now goes by its acronym only, to reflect the broad range of IT governance professionals it serves. ISACA was incorporated in 1969 by a small group of individuals who recognized a need for a centralized source of information and guidance in the growing field of auditing controls for computer systems. Today, ISACA serves 140,000 professionals in 180 countries.
Lostar
Lostar has been offering consultancy, training and audit services in IT governance, risk and compliance (IT-GRC) since 1998. The Company is specialized in ensuring the continuity and security of information, an asset with increasingly growing value, as well as providing its regulatory compliance. The primary objective is to offer solution-oriented services with its multi-disciplinary team, which is able to provide brand-independent service. Lostar is Turkey’s leading firm in COBIT-related activities and CISA training programs, and offers a methodology that ensures human-independent and permanent information security management systems (ISMS) that also guarantee conformity with ISO 27001, and Security Checkup services that reveal security vulnerabilities. Recognizing that corporate changes will not succeed unless they are espoused by employees, Lostar implements the leading method in employee awareness and behavior change in Turkey.
Prodaft
As a pioneering threat intelligence company, we at PRODAFT have been mastering the art of cyber threat anticipation for over a decade. We have been supporting organizations in both private and public sectors that are exposed to cyber risks due to the lack of resources, no dedicated teams, inappropriate or complicated solutions, overwhelm, or simply the lack of awareness. That is why you will receive intelligence-led insights that are actionable, validated, and relevant to your business specifically. There is no half-cooked data – just contextualized findings that shape your cyber resilience of tomorrow.
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Knowledge Hub
IDC Spotlight
Yeşim Öztürk
Senior Research Manager, Turkey
IDC
In a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, IDC’s “FutureScape: Worldwide Security and Trust 2025 Predictions” report highlights the critical importance for organizations to adapt to emerging threats and technologies. In 2025, companies will focus on integrating advanced security measures to increase cyber resilience and combat sophisticated cyberattacks. Identity and access management, cloud security and AI-driven solutions remain key areas for investment. Organizations are prioritizing these technologies to protect their digital assets and comply with increasingly stringent regulations. IDC’s security and trust-focused forecasts emphasize the need for a proactive approach to cybersecurity, where continuous monitoring and rapid response capabilities are essential to mitigate risks and protect sensitive information. On the other hand, there remains a strong demand for managed security services in the Turkish market, particularly in areas such as detection and response, operational technology security and identity management. Companies in Turkey are focusing on the need for comprehensive security strategies that are aligned with their business objectives, while also dealing with economic uncertainties and the proliferation of AI technologies.At the same time, companies are building robust cyber resilience frameworks and leveraging AI/ML security solutions to meet the challenges of an expanding threat landscape.
Advisory Board Spotlight
Özer Gülce
Director of Information Security Management
Alternatif Bank
The age of artificial intelligence presents cybersecurity leaders with both great opportunities and new challenges. As advanced threats evolve rapidly, it has become critical to develop proactive security strategies and build a dynamic defense against threats with continuously learning systems. By building a strong bridge between technology and strategy, cybersecurity leaders have a fundamental responsibility to ensure that organizations are prepared not only for today’s threats but also for the uncertainties of the future.
Advisory Board Spotlight
Okan Şengül
Information Security Manager
Ekol Lojistik
Artificial intelligence brings both new risks and powerful solutions in cyber security. This change must be managed not only with technology, but also with the right strategies. Today, the task of cybersecurity leaders is not only to follow technology closely, but also to use it in line with business goals. To succeed in the age of artificial intelligence, security must not only be a technical issue, but also an organizational priority. Leaders who can strike this balance will carry their organizations more robustly into the future.
Advisory Board Spotlight
Önder Ziya Baş
CISO
İhlas Holding
Emerging artificial intelligence tools offer attackers both greater convenience and the ability to manipulate our eyes and ears more convincingly than ever before. This is why we must strengthen our defenses with human-centered approaches as well as technology-driven solutions.
Advisory Board Spotlight
İbrahim Aslanbakan
CISO
Medipol Eğitim ve Sağlık Grubu
The bridge between cybersecurity and AI security is not just about technical solutions; it’s about foresight, adaptability and collaboration. As Cybersecurity Managers, it is our responsibility to not only protect our systems, but also to shape a future where AI can thrive safely and ethically. The emergence of AI brings with it a set of challenges and opportunities that require a new perspective, innovative frameworks, and most importantly, a bridge between current cybersecurity practices and the AI-driven future.
Advisory Board Spotlight
Emre Erkıran
CISO
QNB Invest
Decision mechanisms shaped by AI-supported data-driven predictions, operational processes accelerated by automation, and cyber security at the center of this transformation should be considered not only as a line of defense, but also as a strategic priority and positioned in an integrated manner with AI-supported threat detection and risk management.
Advisory Board Spotlight
Kadir Yıldız
Head of Cyber Security
Türk Hava Yolları
It is valuable to plan technology in a way that serves strategic business goals, rather than simply following and implementing it. When evaluating AI-based solutions, security managers must also consider their ethical, auditable and sustainable use. Effective leadership is possible not only with tools, but also with proactive and visionary approaches that combine technology with strategy.
Advisory Board Spotlight
Ercan Cengiz
World Participation
CISO
Attacks are evolving, threats are getting smarter every day. Artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is the key to not only keeping pace with this transformation, but also getting ahead of it. Defenses now need to be as smart, fast and agile as attacks.
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