Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 42 | Page 17

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 ///////////////// 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.” INTELLIGENTCIO 17