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10:50 – 16:30
Critical Infrastructure  
11:10 – 11:20
Critical Infrastructure   Moderator Opening Remarks
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

11:20 – 11:40
Critical Infrastructure   Special Address: What is Your Incident Response Plan? As per a industry report cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure around the world jumped from 20% to 40% in 2022. How are organizations assessing business continuity plans when reacting to these attacks? What are the initiatives to combat malicious activity for both physical & virtual assets? 
Speakers

Karen Evans MD, Cyber Readiness Institute, USA

11:40 – 11:55
Critical Infrastructure   Hello, Mantis just sent you 26 million request per second  Have you met Mantis? This powerful botnet was able to generate the 26M HTTPS requests per second attack using only 5,000 bots. Who is this botnet attacking? How to protect against Mantis and other DDoS attacks, find your answers here.
Speakers

Bader Shaath Senior Solutions Engineer, Enterprise, Cloudflare, UAE

11:55 – 12:10
Critical Infrastructure   Security Validation at the Heart of Exposure Management Surprisingly, the majority of breach-reasons today are NOT vulnerability-related, but rather caused by misconfiguration, application interfaces, supply chain or credential related security gaps. Exposure Management is here to allow a strategy and process for addressing the reduction of risk over the entire attack surface. This presentation will highlight a simple, pragmatic approach to implementing an Exposure Management strategy with minimal incremental investment while focusing on automation and validation.
Speakers

Oren Kaplan Senior Director MEA, Pentera, Israel

12:10 – 12:50
Critical Infrastructure   Panel: Critical Infrastructure Apocalypse Now? Blurring threat attack landscape with digitization increases vulnerability. Imagine millions of homes and businesses are plunged into darkness, communications are cut, banks go offline, hospitals close and air traffic is grounded. With more than 41 billion IoT devices across enterprise and consumer environments expected by 2025, what are the risks of IT/OT convergence? What should our response to those risks be?
Moderator

Ali Khan Risk Advisory – Cyber Partner, Deloitte, UAE

Speakers

Nicholas Charnley Chief information Security Officer, TAQA Group, UAE

Christos Syngelakis Group CISO & DPO, Group Motor Oil, Greece

Lieutenant Colonel Francel Margareth Taborlupa Battalion Commander, 7th Signal Bn, Army Signal Regiment, Philippine Army

Prof. Dr. Rob de Wijk Founder, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, Netherlands

12:50 – 13:10
Critical Infrastructure   The evolution of the information security – hunting for fake domains
Speakers

Tural Mammadov Director of CERT.gov.az, Special Communication and Information Security State Service, Azerbaijan

13:10 – 13:25
Critical Infrastructure   A Strategic Approach to Protecting National Digital Assets and Critical Infrastructure  The continued success of digitization initiatives in Middle Eastern countries brings an additional and growing risk of cyberattacks. These attacks can derail the progress of digitization and jeopardize its benefits Every national government in the region strives to create a secure digital environment, but too often, these efforts are fragmented, tactical, and reactive. As a result, government responses often need to catch up to the ever-evolving threat landscape, and defenses put in place are circumvented or exploited.  Middle Eastern governments are the only actors with the power, reach, and resources to develop and advance a genuinely national cybersecurity agenda that ensures alignment of efforts and promotes collaboration and continuous improvement. It is imperative that Middle Eastern governments define a national cybersecurity program, assign high-level responsibility, and launch the program. Therefore, a strategic approach to cybersecurity is needed to build preventive and reactive cybersecurity capabilities that provide the foundation for national cybersecurity and its critical infrastructures.
Speakers

Pranav Bhopatkar Director Cybersecurity EEMEA, Honeywell – Connected Enterprise, UAE

13:25 – 13:45
Critical Infrastructure   Australian Enormous Cyberattacks, Government 2030 Response
Speakers

Khaled Abdulsalam Managing Partner - Cyber Security, iTEAM SYSTEMS, Australia

13:45 – 14:30
Critical Infrastructure   Break
14:30 – 14:45
Critical Infrastructure   How HCO and observability can assist a critical organization or critical infrastructure
Speakers

Moaz Deyab Solutions Engineer, Solarwinds, UAE

14:45 – 15:05
Critical Infrastructure   Protecting critical infrastructure from terrorist cyber-attacks
Speakers

Akvile Giniotiene Head of Cyber and New Technologies, UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), USA

15:05 – 15:25
Critical Infrastructure   Evolving Landscape of Ransomware and Next steps
Speakers

Karanveer Padghane Chief Architect, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei Middle East & Central Asia

15:25 – 15:45
Critical Infrastructure   Live Hack: Hacking into a SCADA system simulation The presentation on hacking into SCADA systems is an exploration of the techniques and tactics used by attackers to breach industrial control systems (ICS). The presentation covers the history of SCADA systems and how they are used to control critical infrastructure, as well as the vulnerabilities and attack vectors that make them susceptible to compromise. The presentation also provides an overview of the tools and techniques used by attackers to exploit SCADA systems, including network scanning, SQL injection, and social engineering. Real-world examples of successful attacks on SCADA systems are discussed, along with the potential consequences of such attacks, including physical damage, environmental hazards, and loss of life. The presentation concludes with a discussion of best practices for securing SCADA systems, including network segmentation, user access controls, and regular security assessments. The goal of the presentation is to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities in SCADA systems and to provide guidance on how to protect these critical infrastructure systems from attack.
Speakers

Shahmeer Amir Founder, Younite, Authiun, Veiliux, Pakistan

15:45 – 16:00
Critical Infrastructure   Fireside Chat: Enhancing Aviation Safety with Cloud Computing and AI As aviation safety regulations become more stringent, the industry must find innovative ways to improve. The use of cloud computing and AI provide efficient solutions to increase safety, lower costs, and continue to innovate in the aviation industry.
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

Speakers

Patrick Moshe Perelsztejn Infrastructures Security & Cyber Manager, EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd, Israel

16:00 – 16:45
Critical Infrastructure   Panel: Cloud Vulnerability & Crucial Security Strategies Rapid adoption of remote working has accelerated the need for cloud-based services, creating security and privacy-related considerations for enterprises. Following industry reports, it is estimated that by 2025, over 85% of organizations will adopt a cloud-first approach. As such, CISOs must ensure cloud security is properly implemented to ensure operational continuity during their cloud migration. This panel will discuss the security and privacy frameworks for managing hybrid cloud infrastructure, explain the potential risks associated with cloud-based systems, and analyze the security measures and protocols that may exist in place to protect these systems. 
Moderator

Jaspal Singh Sawhney Chief Information Security Officer, TATA Communications, India

Speakers

Shahab Siddiqui Global Head of Cyber Security, Petrofac, UAE

Dr. Raed Al-Shaikh EXPEC Information Security Manager, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri Head of Cyber Defense and Offensive Security Information Security, Habib Bank Limited, Pakistan

Sanil Anand Nadkarni CISO, Cummins

Prasanna Kumar Burri Group Chief Information Officer, Dangote Group [Nigeria]

16:45 – 16:45
Critical Infrastructure   End of Day 1
10:50 – 16:15
Critical Infrastructure  
11:00 – 11:10
Critical Infrastructure   Moderator Opening Remarks
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

11:10 – 11:25
Critical Infrastructure   Special Address: Digitalization of Interconnected Complex and Fragile critical National Information Infrastructure
Speakers

Dato’ Ts. Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab CEO, Cybersecurity Malaysia

11:25 – 11:40
Critical Infrastructure   Keynote: Towards a Critical Cybersecurity Culture Embedding sustainable cyber-awareness across the organisation.
Speakers

Prof. Dr. Rob de Wijk Founder, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, Netherlands

11:40 – 12:10
Critical Infrastructure   Ensuring Cybersecurity Maturity Across the Connected Grid Moving beyond a compliance-based approach towards an integrated outcome-focused model to increase capability, maturity and resilience. Establishing trusted and effective information sharing mechanisms to help drive end-to-end grid security and become more responsive to active threats.
Speakers

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric, UAE

Christos Syngelakis Group CISO & DPO, Group Motor Oil, Greece

Ali Abdulla Hassan Chief of Information Technology, Ministry of Oil and Environment, Bahrain

Suhail Khalid ISR Auditor, DESC, UAE

Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem Al Zaabi Assistant Information and Cyber Security Operations Director, ENEC, UAE

Dr. Ernesto Damiani Director, Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS), Khalifa University, UAE

12:10 – 12:30
Critical Infrastructure   Examining the depths of Industrial IoT (IIoT) for CI protection This session will elaborate on the risks and threats caused by using IIoT devices and Ecosystems that might allow process manipulation and harm the data integrity. This Fireside Chat discussion will highlight the needed measures to ensure operation safety and business continuity. 
Moderator

Daniel Ehrenreich Consultant and Lecturer – Cyber Security, Secure Communications and Control Experts, Israel

Speakers

Jaspal Singh Sawhney Global Chief Information Security Officer, TATA Communications, India

12:30 – 12:45
Critical Infrastructure   Invincible Critical Infrastructure: Best Practices for Safeguarding Revenue-Generating Operations
Speakers

Eric Vedel Director,  CISOs Advisory EMEA, Cisco Secure, France

12:45 – 13:00
Critical Infrastructure   Why XDR is the way forward to protect critical infrastructure
Speakers

Hani Nofal VP of Digital Infrastructure Solutions, GBM

Jennifer Lavender Director & Integration Executive Randori, IBM, USA.

13:00 – 13:20
Critical Infrastructure   CYBER AWARENESS SESSION BY MOI UAE •Blue team roadmap
•Incidents response 
•Social engineering 
•how cyber security is important in life
•Different between SOC and CERT
Speakers

Eng. Mariam Eissa Alhammadi Senior Information Security Specialist - MOI, Blue team leader, CERT member, Ministry of Interior, UAE

13:20 – 13:30
Critical Infrastructure   BREAK
13:30 – 14:00
Critical Infrastructure   FIRESIDE CHAT: THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF PPP''S IN SECURING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Public-private partnerships are the foundation for effective critical infrastructure security and resilience strategies.
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

Speakers

Karen Evans MD, Cyber Readiness Institute, USA

Christopher Painter President,The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, USA

14:00 – 14:15
Critical Infrastructure   Deeper Data, Better Protection: How A Middle Eastern Energy Company Harnessed the Potential of OT Asset Data A middle eastern natural gas production company did not have an asset management system in place for their complex OT/ICS and IT infrastructure. By implementing a comprehensive asset management solution, they were able to use hybrid asset data collection methods to quickly discover configurations and vulnerabilities in their large OT environment. This presentation will explain why implementing an OT asset management solution helped this organization achieve comprehensive asset management, configuration change management, detailed and automated compliance reporting and actionable intelligence for threat detection.
Speakers

Greg Valentine SVP, Solutions Engineering, Industrial Defender, USA

14:15 – 14:45
Critical Infrastructure   Panel: Focus - Telecom Cybersecurity To protect the telecom industry from cyber threats, companies must invest in robust and comprehensive security solutions like firewalls, spam filters, encryption, and security protocols. Cybersecurity policies and procedures must be developed and implemented as well, to ensure that best practices are followed and all threats are detected, isolated, and mitigated. There must also be ongoing training and awareness programs to ensure that staff are educated and kept up to date on the latest security trends.
Moderator

Dr. Paul de Souza President & Founder, Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI), USA

Speakers

Celia Mantshiyane Chief Information Security Officer, MTN (Mobile Telephone Network), South Africa

Roja Kiran Basukala Deputy Director, Telecommunications Authority & Vice President, Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, Nepal

Walaa SalahEldeen Group Cyber Security Director, Telecom Egypt, Egypt

14:45 – 15:05
Critical Infrastructure   Rethinking Critical Infrastructure Protection through Blockchain By taking advantage of the transparent nature of blockchain, organizations can better safeguard their CI from cyber-attacks. It offers a secure and verifiable data storage layer and provides secure authentication of users, devices, and applications within the infrastructure. Blockchain can be used to facilitate the secure transfer of data between different sites and networks. However, the implementation of this technology comes with its own challenges. Complexity, scalability, cost, regulations and more. 
Speakers

Dr Deepak Kumar Sr. Cyber Intelligence & Digital Forensics Expert, India

15:05 – 15:35
Critical Infrastructure   Panel: Focus - Aviation Security Digital or connected airplanes as well as the airport of things, brings new vulnerabilities to the table. Big Data and Predictive Analytics plays an important role as with aircraft sensors and processors this will add security to the aviation data throughout all the aviation ecosystem, from connectivity,  operations to predictive maintenance.
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

Speakers

Thomas Heuckeroth SVP IT Infrastructure & CyberSecurity, Group CISO, The Emirates Group, UAE

Mohammad Sarhan General Manager - Cybersecurity, General Authority of Civil Aviation, Saudi Arabia

Yuosof Radi Director of Cyber Security, SAL Saudi Logistics Services, Saudi Arabia

15:35 – 15:55
Critical Infrastructure   Ensuring Robustness of AI-ML systems
Speakers

Dr. Ernesto Damiani Director, Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS), Khalifa University, UAE

15:55 – 16:15
Critical Infrastructure   Focus - Maritime Cybersecurity • What pressing challenges do maritime policymakers, industry stakeholders, naval forces and practitioners face in the cyber era?
• How do we effectively secure critical national information infrastructure in today’s maritime domain? 
•What can policymakers, industry and practitioners in national security do about it?
Speakers

Dr. Osei Bonsu Dickson Chief Legal Advisor, Ministry of National Security,Ghana

16:15 – 17:00
Critical Infrastructure   Workshop: City preparedness to terrorist cyber-attacks
Speakers

Akvile Giniotiene Head of Cyber and New Technologies, UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), USA

17:00 – 17:00
Critical Infrastructure   End of Day 2
10:30 – 15:30
Critical Infrastructure  
10:30 – 10:40
Critical Infrastructure   Moderator Opening Remarks
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

10:40 – 11:10
Critical Infrastructure   Fireside Chat: Risks Associated with Emerging Technologies from the Global Law Enforcement Perspective
Moderator

Karen Evans MD, Cyber Readiness Institute, USA

Speakers

Dr Madan Oberoi Executive Director for Technology and Innovation, Interpol, Singapore

11:10 – 11:25
Critical Infrastructure   National Cyber Ecosystem This presentation will shed light on how building a National Cyber Ecosystem offers broader defence capabilities relative to solely depending on Cybersecurity technologies.
Speakers

Fadi Mutlak Risk Advisory – Cyber Partner, Deloitte, UAE

11:25 – 12:00
Critical Infrastructure   Panel: Look into Your OT Environments The challenge across critical infrastructure is, you can’t defend your environments if you don’t know what’s in them, and you can’t proactively detect a threat unless you’re actively looking for it. This session will provide an in-depth overview of the current cyber security threats facing OT environments, identify attack vectors, outline the steps needed to create a resilient OT environment and discuss the importance of including people and processes in any OT security strategy. 
Moderator

Siham Benhamidouche MEA Cybersecurity Officer, Schneider Electric

Speakers

Dr. Srijith Nair Chief Information Security Officer, Careem, UAE

Ekrem Zoroglu Group Manager, Mercedes-Benz Tech Turkiye, Turkey

Javed Habib Global Head of ICS Cybersecurity – Thermal & Supply Global Business Unit, Engie, UAE

Safal Shrestha, Deputy Director, National Information Technology Center, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Nepal

12:00 – 12:15
Critical Infrastructure   Biggest Cyber Threats to Space Systems If the space vehicle''s ability to communicate is subverted, what are the tactics used to attackTelemetry, Tracking & Command (TT&C) systems? Disabling the asset to support its mission, what happens next?
Speakers

Panagiotis Kikiras Head of Unit Technology and Innovation, European Defence Agency, Belgium

12:15 – 12:35
Critical Infrastructure   Exploring the Satellite Vulnerability to Cyberattacks What does this mean for the satellites on orbit used every day for weather predictions, communications, or GPS?
Speakers

Adham Etoom Director of Policy and Compliance, National Cybersecurity Center, Jordan

12:35 – 12:55
Critical Infrastructure   Secured Integration of ICS-OT with IIoT in CI facilities
Speakers

Daniel Ehrenreich Consultant and Lecturer – Cyber Security, Secure Communications and Control Experts, Israel

12:55 – 14:00
Critical Infrastructure   Workshop: Effective ICS/OT Tabletop Exercise Design and Facilitation
Speakers

Michael Hoffman SANS Instructor, Technical Lead Consultant, Dragos, USA

14:00 – 14:20
Critical Infrastructure   Risk Management and Cybersecurity Measures for Space Assets
Speakers

Dr. Aquib Moin Associate Professor at UAE University & CEO at Alhazen Space, UAE

14:20 – 14:40
Critical Infrastructure   Focus - 5G Security Standards Rapid expansion of 5G coverage in 2023 will allow devices to communicate faster. Governments and regulators can be expected to step up efforts to ensure that connected devices comply with latest cybersecurity standards. 
Speakers

Unguec Stephen Kang Ilario Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, National Communication Authority (NCA), South Sudan

14:40 – 15:00
Critical Infrastructure   Cyber-attacks exploitations in nuclear power generation plants for discovering hidden vulnerabilities
Speakers

Dr. Abdullah A.I. Alnajem Licensed Nuclear Cybersecurity Professional, Saudi Arabia

15:00 – 15:20
Critical Infrastructure   Strengthening partnerships between government and private sector for CI protection
Speakers

Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola Chair, African Union Cyber Security Expert Group, Nigeria

15:20 – 15:20
Critical Infrastructure   End of Day 3