NEWS
Microsoft holds ‘Banking Edition’ of CISO
Executive Series for Kuwaiti FSI Professionals
M
icrosoft has held the ‘Banking Edition’
of its CISO Executive Series – a series
for an elite set of top Chief Information
Security Officers for Kuwait’s finance sector
professionals. The event, held at the JW
Marriot, Kuwait City, was specifically tailored
for the country’s banking industry to enable
its professionals to overcome the rising
challenges in the cybersecurity landscape and
meet the security objectives of their business.
The summit comes amid continuous rise of
cyberattacks targeting public and private
sector organisations and aims to empower
professionals to better protect their
company perimeters.
Kuwait, delivered presentations and
demonstrations around cybersecurity.
The sessions covered a holistic approach
and introduction to Microsoft trust principles
such as security, privacy, compliance and
transparency. The attendees also learned
about protecting organisational identities
and ensuring data privacy and encryption
of information including data classification,
compliance policies and practices to meet
financial requirements.
Moreover, the Kuwaiti CISOs were
engaged in discussions to shed light on the
importance of how the migration of core
data and applications can help increase
security and bring agility to their operations.
Microsoft has hosted a cybersecurity event
in Kuwait City specifically tailored for
professionals working in the banking sector
Microsoft experts including Ramon Bosch,
Principal, Risk and Compliance, Microsoft
EMEA; Volkan Verim, Technical Sales
Professional, Security Microsoft Gulf; and
Mohammed Zayed, Microsoft 365 and
Cybersecurity Solutions Lead for Microsoft
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Cisco expands DevNet Express into Lebanon to
help business growth
B
uilding on the success of previous events
around the world, Cisco’s DevNet Express
has expanded into Lebanon. DevNet Express
is Cisco’s two-day event which aims to teach
network engineers and architects how to
manage their networks using Enterprise
Network Programmability tools and APIs
(Application Program Interfaces).
The goal of DevNet is to create a community
of infrastructure and application developers
and give them hands-on experience and
insights via pre-packaged tutorials, instructor-
led teaching by highly qualified sales
engineers and rewarding through games.
Using open, programmable platforms and
learning labs, DevNet empowers developers
with the skills needed to innovate, customise
and deliver business outcomes using new,
secure and more efficient methods.
Hani Raad, Director and General Manager
– Middle East West Region at Cisco, said:
www.intelligentcio.com
Cisco’s DevNet Express was recently
expanded into Lebanon
“As a market first, Cisco’s DevNet Express
aims to combine our global vision with local
knowledge to help developers listen, learn
and put into practice a range of teachings
and software driven innovations that will
aid business growth. Globally, we have over
500,000 members, who come from more
than 39,000 companies. We are proud to
give local talent here in Lebanon a platform
on which to build their skills and accelerate
digitisation. We look forward to collaborating
with an increasing number of local talents
and upskilling developers to drive innovation
in Lebanon forward.”
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