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The Summit brought together over 150 senior decision makers and IT security professionals to share best practices and highlight the latest developments in the cyber security landscape in the region.
RSA, The Security Division of EMC today announced the opening of the RSA Security Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a one day security conference aimed at helping organizations address evolving, complex and sensitive security challenges. The Summit, held at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel brought together an audience of senior security professionals from the IT industry, including Chief Security Officers, Compliance and Risk Managers, CIOs, and IT Directors to highlight the emerging trends in the space of cyber security and shed light on how organizations can help build an element of ‘trust’ in their IT organizations and the need to ramp up their team’s ability to face the unknown threats and ensure data protection and mitigation of the risk of an attack.
The adoption of third platform technologies such as cloud computing, Big Data, social networking and mobile devices to help enterprises achieve their IT and business transformation goals depends on entirely on a foundation of trust and the organization’s ability to secure their cloud environment ensuring that data is protected no matter where, how and what device it may be accessed from. The rapid evolution of the IT industry in turn introduces organizations to a whole new host of advanced risks and persistent threats that are far more complex, destructive and frequent in volume than ever known.
Set against this backdrop, the RSA Summit opened with a keynote by Art Coviello, Executive Vice President, EMC and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC highlighted the benefits of an intelligence-driven security approach to help enterprises secure their most sensitive information and networks and mitigate risks in the age of IT’s “third platform”.
The summit featured presentations from senior RSA executives and security experts which highlighted the need to harness Big Data Analytics to leverage the benefits of a transformational security monitoring and investigative solution. The subject follows from a recent survey conducted by EMC found that 67% of respondents in the UAE agree that Big Data technology will prove vital in identifying and protecting against cyber-attacks while only 66% of respondents in the UAE were confident of their ability to fully recover all their data should they have need to.
RSA Summit sponsors included HelpAG, ComputerLinks, Mid-East Data Systems, WIPRO and Paramount IT who all took the opportunity to discuss their solutions with attendees in the networking area of the summit. The RSA Security Summit UAE 2014 is part of a series of EMEA summits with planned additional stops in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, These events are designed to provide RSA customers and partners with an opportunity to gain insight into the latest developments in the field of cyber security and showcase the company’s host of innovations to help enterprises protect their information, networks and users from sophisticated internal and external threats in addition to helping meet the ever increasing demands from governance, risk and compliance within industries such as banking and finance, healthcare, telecom and government in addition to many others