UP FRONT

What a month May was! We’ve been overwhelmed with the support and praise that we received following our rst-ever Security Middle East Conference. As the longest-established and leading print security title in the region, it felt particularly important that we play our role in bringing together the sector’s foremost thought leaders and industry experts to help shape the future of security.

We’re at an exciting time – technology is evolving at pace and now it’s vital organisations understand how to implement this technology and how it can be used to boost security operations. We also have the ongoing e orts to support Saudi Vision 2030 and the challenges that brings, the drive to bring more people into the security sector and the growing threat of ever-more complex cyber attacks to contend with.

We were delighted to be joined by over 200 industry professionals on the 9th May who were eager to hear from our keynote speakers and panellists. We tackled some of the most pressing issues that our readers are facing and debated how to ensure the sector continues to move forwards. We hope that those who attended went home with lots of new connections made and plenty of inspiration, success stories and ideas.

The Security Middle East community will be instrumental in driving change for the better, with the foundations for deploying strategic initiatives all debated and discussed at the Security Middle East Conference in the rst instance.

You can read more about this exciting event on pages 16 and 44. And if you missed it, you’ll be pleased to hear that work has already started on next year’s event, which promises to be even bigger and better.

Cora Lydon Editor cora.lydon@securitymiddleeastonline.com

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