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Cyber Security Visionaries to Gather at #WCSSAfrica to Define, Describe, and Forecast the Market

Taking place on 24 May 2021 in Africa, the 10th global edition of World Cyber Security Summit will focus on topics such as Cyber Security framework and strategies for the African Government Authorities; National security, Cyber Threats and Governance: The Rise of Security Culture in Africa; Zero Trust Networks & Resilient ICT Re-Budgeting for Corporate sectors; Cyber Security trends and crucial security strategies for sectors and enterprises and much more.

The African Prospect

The Africa cyber security market size is anticipated to witness strong growth over the coming years on account of rapid growth in internet users combined with growing dependability on e-governance, IoT, commercial services and social networking.

This is also bolstered by an increasing number of cyber crime within the country that have, unfortunately, been seeing a surge in pushing governments to support sectors such as telecom, retail, finance and health to help amplify the demand for enterprise cyber security products, services and consumer software in the country.

“Cyber security landscape is rapidly changing & evolving in Africa” stated Naresh Kumar, Director – Regional Sales Development at emt Distribution META. He further added “Find, Fix, & Protect – Take Control Of Your Network and It’s our ongoing efforts to educate, position and protect our partners IT ecosystem with Progress and emt Cyber security and ICT solutions.”

What next for the continent?

Enterprises and governments are leading an increased effort to strengthen the internet infrastructure and improve the solutions and aid provided by the software industry in a bid to protect its citizens from cyber attacks in the future.

Apart from this, factors such as the need for unified cyber solutions, increased internet subscriptions, data disclosure mandates, enhanced enterprise mobility, and increased spending patterns on security forums are boosting the demand for cyber security solutions in the nation.

“Cyber security leaders play an important role in today’s business. They have to put out a strong message of influence as security is a culture and business should become a part of this security culture,” stated Mithun Shetty, CEO, Trescon.

World Cyber Security Summit – Africa will feature a ground-breaking collaboration of experts such as Dr Ahmedin Mohammed, State Minister, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Innovation and Technology; Peter Hunguru, Head of Information Communication and Technology, Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA); Themba Mnguni, Deputy Director, IT Audit, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform; Collins Osagie Omokaro, Special Assistant to the Honourable Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, FCT, Abuja; Muyowa Mutemwa, Senior Cyber security Consultant, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; and Humphrey Mutuma, Youth Governor & Executive Director, Youths for Youths Network to name a few.
The summit will be hosted on the virtual events platform Vmeets to help participants network and conduct business in an interactive and immersive virtual environment. Participants can also engage with speakers in Q&A sessions and network with solution providers in virtual exhibition booths, private consultation rooms and private networking rooms.

The World Cyber Security Summit – Africa is officially sponsored by Platinum Sponsor – Nanjgel Solutions and Accops; Gold Sponsors – emt Distribution FZ-LLC and Progress Software Corporation; Silver Sponsor – ManageEngine and SHELT.

About World Cyber Security Summit

World Cyber Security Summit is a thought-leadership driven, business-focused initiative that provides a platform for CISOs who are looking to explore new-age threats and the technologies/strategies to mitigate them.

To register visit – World Cyber Security Summit – Africa.

For further details, please contact:
Karthik A, Marketing Lead, Trescon
marketing@tresconglobal.com

Top African Cyber Security leaders are gathering virtually to address the region’s evolving cyber threats

World Cyber Security Summit will virtually connect the most influential voices in Africa’s cyber security space this May. Notable speakers include the likes of Daniel Adaramola – CISO, Unity Bank PLC; Themba Mnguni – Deputy Director, IT Audit, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform; Muyowa Mutemwa, Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); Faheem Ali – Expert Financial Inclusion, FinTech and Digital Transformations – Chief Risk Officer, Musoni & more.

Thursday, 22 April 2021: Taking place on 24 May 2021, the virtual event will focus on topics such as envisioning cyber security as a tool for a safer Africa; Digital Hijacks: Ransomware Threats Are on the Rise, Real-time threat analysis, visualization and incident response; Cyber Security framework for OT, ICS & IoT environments and much more.

Why Africa?

African governments face a rapidly evolving variety of digital challenges, ranging from espionage to critical infrastructure disruption, organised crime, and combating innovation. And, so far, most African governments’ responses have lagged behind the rapid evolution of the cyber threats that their countries face.

Lack of understanding of cyber-related matters, lack of effective supervision and issues like oversight have increased the potential for cyber violence in Africa.

Given that African countries are among the most vulnerable to cyberattacks, it is in their best interests to participate more actively in international fora that are currently forming norms for state behaviour in cyberspace.

World Cyber Security Summit – Africa will feature keynotes from thought-leaders and industry experts, private networking sessions, private video meetings and more.

“At the World Cyber Security Summit, we have hand-picked thought leaders and experts from a variety of fields to address the foremost pressing cyber security challenges confronting African governments and businesses. The event will also include technology vendors specialising in cyberspace to assist organisations in identifying threat areas and appropriate strategies to address them,” says Mithun Shetty, CEO of Trescon.

The summit will feature a ground-breaking collaboration of experts such as Humphrey Odhiambo – Head of Partnerships & Content, CIO East Africa; Hisham Mohamed Aly – Egypt CISO, Risk Division, Emirates NBD; Fene Oskawe, Director, Group IT – GRC & Strategy, IHS Towers; Confidence Staveley, Founder and Executive/Director, CyberSafe Foundation, Top 50 Women in Cyber Security Africa 2020; to name a few.

The summit will be hosted on the virtual events platform Vmeets to help participants network and conduct business in an interactive and immersive virtual environment. Participants can also engage with speakers in Q&A sessions and network with solution providers in virtual exhibition booths, private consultation rooms and private networking rooms.

About World Cyber Security Summit

World Cyber Security Summit is a thought-leadership driven, business-focused initiative that provides a platform for CISOs who are looking to explore new-age threats and the technologies/strategies to mitigate them.

To register visit – World Cyber Security Summit – Africa.

For further details, please contact:
Karthik A
Marketing Lead
marketing@tresconglobal.com

The Oman edition of the World Cyber Security Summit shed light on Mitigating Cyber Threats and Securing Oman’s Data Network

In an age of unprecedented possibilities, World Cyber Security Summit – Oman attracted prominent voices in the cyber security space. Some of the top speakers who attended the event that took place on 24 March 2021 included, His Excellency Eng Redha Bin Juma Al Saleh, Chairman, Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Ali Hassan Moosa, CEO, Oman Banks Association; Maqbool Hm Yousuf Al Lawati – Chairman, Board Member, CFO, FCCA Stellar Consultancy LLC, Stellar Process Solutions, MHMY Auditors; Laila Abdullah Al Hadhrami – Digital Transformation & Change Management Expert – Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology, Oman, Director – Oman Smart City Platform; Rasha Al Abdali – In-charge Director of Compliance, Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology; to name a few.

World Cyber Security Summit – Oman covered key topics such as the Government Cyber Security and defense strategies, Creating Cyber Security framework for Critical Assets and Critical Infrastructure, Cyber security legal framework and regulations, Cyber Security Technologies for Smart Cities of the Future, Digital workplace security: Creating safe remote workplace and more.

Highlights and key takeaways from the World Cyber Security Summit – Oman
“Cyber Security is key to the survival of the financial order,” said Ali Hassan Moosa, CEO, Oman Banks Association in his opening keynote at the World Cyber Security Summit – Oman.

A tech talk by Emad Haffar – Director, Security Consultant Team, META, Kaspersky, UAE threw light on the strategic, tactical and operational influence on the decision-making paradigm.

World Cyber Security Summit also featured an interesting tech talk by Andrew Tsonchev, Director of Technology, Darktrace on the topic ‘Operational Integrity, Safeguarding Your OT Systems with Cyber AI’.

In a panel discussion on the topic ‘Government Cyber Security Strategy: protected critical infrastructure, secure citizen services and establish up-to-date Smart Cities cyber security’, moderated by Alena Dique – Founder & Coordinator, UNCTAD Youth Action Hub Oman, the panellists discussed key areas such as the importance of having secure online platforms and how corporates and individuals can protect data from cybercrimes. The panellists who joined the discussion included Laila Abdullah Al Hadhrami – Digital Transformation & Change Management Expert- Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology, Oman, Director – Oman Smart City Platform; Ali Abdulla Alsadadi – Head of IT, National Oil & Gas Authority, Bahrain; Talal Al Asmi – Director of Information Security, Department of Electronic Information Security Ministry of Education.

While speaking about ‘Cyber Security for secure, vigilant, and resilient enterprises: modern strategies and technologies’, A Karthik, Chief Evangelist, ManageEngine stated, “Be Secure, Be Vigilant and Be Resilient to mitigate the emerging cyber threats that have been reported.”

“Virtual events are an excellent opportunity for everyone in the industry to come together during these difficult times. Affordable and intelligent cyber security solutions & strategies are the need of the hour,” says Mithun Shetty, CEO of Trescon.

The summit was hosted on the virtual events platform Vmeets which helped the participants to network and conduct business in an interactive and immersive virtual environment. Participants were also able to engage with speakers in Q&A sessions and network with solution providers in virtual exhibition booths, private consultation rooms and private networking rooms.

World Cyber Security Summit – Oman in partnership with Stellar Consultancy LLC was officially sponsored by Headline Sponsor – Kaspersky; Platinum Sponsor – Darktrace; Silver Sponsor – ManageEngine; and Bronze sponsor – Bluedog Security Monitoring.

About World Cyber Security Summit

World Cyber Security Summit is a thought-leadership driven, business-focused initiative that provides a platform for CISOs who are looking to explore new-age threats and the technologies/strategies to mitigate them.

The summit is virtually hosting CISOs across industry sectors from Oman who will meet, network, learn and engage with some of the world’s renowned technology thought-leaders, subject matter experts and technology innovators in a constructive, open-dialogue environment to find solutions for issues hindering their information/cyber security.

For further details about the announcement, please contact:
Karthik A – Marketing Lead
marketing@tresconglobal.com