Information Security Director at the National Bank of Egypt

Abeer Khedr is the Information Security Director at the National Bank of Egypt with more than 20 years of experience in technology and information security fields. Abeer has been serving in her current role for ten years where she has established the information security strategy & program at the bank. Prior to joining NBE, Abeer was leading the security consulting and IT audit service lines at Deloitte Egypt serving different industries. Abeer has been awarded among top 30 Egyptian successful women in 2020 and among Egypt's 50 influential women in 2019. She was also named among Top 100 Global Chief Information Security Officers for 2020. Abeer has been further recognized among top regional government security leaders in the Middle East by the Dubai CISO Council and as a regional and local CISO of the year in 2016, 2018, 2019 by several entities.

Team Leader (Information Technology) at KGOC.

Over 19 years’ experience in Information Technology at Kuwait Oil sector. Experience in both upstream and downstream infrastructure and applications.
Bachelor of computer engineering from Kuwait University (2001)
Master of Business Administration from AUM (2014)
Certificated in Network, Communications and applications.

Distinguished VP Analyst

Tom Scholtz is a Research Vice President and Gartner Fellow Emeritus. Mr. Scholtz also completed a term as the Chief of Research for Security and Risk Management. He advises clients on security management strategies and trends, and is an acknowledged authority on information security governance, security strategy, security organizational dynamics, and security management processes. Based in the U.K., he is a regular presenter at European industry events.

Founder and Managing Director of Cyber Leadership and Strategy Solutions (CLASS-LLC)

Keyaan is the Founder and Managing Director of Cyber Leadership and Strategy Solutions (CLASS-LLC), a professional services firm that has been developing enterprise cybersecurity strategies and solutions to solve the governance, program management, and workforce challenges faced by global clients since 2016.

He has dedicated more than two decades to supporting corporate information security and risk management programs in large, regulated enterprises.

Beyond security, Keyaan established his reputation for executive leadership as President of the International Board of Directors.

He currently serves as the chair of the risk committee for a global non-profit and is a founding member of the Atlanta Chapter of the Private Directors Association. He also served in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps providing leadership and support at a variety of company and command levels.

Keyaan has contributed to many books and publications including The Language of Cybersecurity, Using Security Metrics to Drive Action, CISO Magazine, the ISSA Journal, and the Crisis Response Journal.

He is a leading author of the Certified CISO Body of Knowledge used by EC-Council to train and certify thousands of global technology and security executives. His upcoming book, Avoiding the Iceberg outlines the business-oriented imperatives to avoid disaster in cyber executive leadership.

Independent Engineer & Security Consultant, Kuwait

Mohammed Aldoub is an independent engineer & security consultant from Kuwait, who, in his 10 years of experience, worked on creating Kuwait's national infrastructure for PKI, cryptography, smartcards and authentication.

Mohammed is a Blackhat Trainer who delivered security trainings, workshops and talks all over the world in the Netherlands, USA, Czech Republic, Singapore, Lebanon, Riyadh, Kuwait, and other places.

Mohammed is deeply interested in malware, especially those used by state actors in the Middle East zone, where he volunteered as OWASP Kuwait's chapter leader. Mohammed is focusing now on APIs, secure devops, modern appsec, cloud-native security, applied cryptography, security architecture and microservices security.

You can find his twitter account at https://twitter.com/Voulnet

Senior Security Researcher, Kaspersky

Maher Yamout, Senior Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky, supports clients in analyzing cyber risks and help expose advanced persistent threats targeting the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. With a background in cyber security, digital forensics & incident response, he has 16 years of unique experience supporting clients in most verticals. He holds a degree in Computer Science, pursuing a Master degree in Applied Intelligence, and possess multiple certificates from GIAC, ISC2 and others.