Health Safety & Security Review Middle East Issue 2 2022

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Safeguarding critical infrastructure Intersec gathered a wealth of cybersecurity experts for its ‘Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure’ summit, including the director of the Digital Society Institute, Dr. Sandro Gaycken, senior security engineer at DEWA, Taha Hussain, and global head of cybersecurity at Petrofac, Shahab Siddiqui. The summit gathered a host of leading voices.

“Technology is so dynamic and in motion that it’s even harder to approach the problems posed by cybersecurity compromises...” Dr Sandro Gaycken, Digital Society Institute

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ntersec 2022 took to the exhibition floors of the Dubai World Trade Centre from 1618 January of this year to gather leading industrial voices from across the worldwide security landscape. Among the booths and networking taking place across a number of exhibition halls, specific summits brought together various experts for panel

talks and question-and-answer sessions that shone a light on the industry’s state of play. The event’s ‘Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure’ summit set a key backdrop for insightful panel discussions on the pressing risks facing organisations as the cyber landscape evolves, and the appropriate strategies companies must integrate to ensure they are protected from cyber threats.

Evolution of security strategy in transformative times: asking the right questions Dr. Sandro Gaycken is the founder and director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, and has published three monographs on cyberwarfare. Dr. Gaycken took to the ‘Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure’ summit to elaborate on his own

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