Sponsors
Principal Sponsor
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CyberKnight Technologies is a cybersecurity focused value-added-distributor (VAD), headquartered in Dubai, covering the Middle East with on-the-ground presence in Saudi Arabia and all key Middle East markets. Our ZTX (Zero Trust Security) methodology, based on the Forrester framework, incorporates emerging and market-leading cybersecurity solutions that protect the entire attack surface, by leveraging AI, to help security teams at enterprise and government customers fortify breach detection, accelerate incident response & remediation, while addressing regulatory compliance. CyberKnight's Art of Cybersecurity Distribution methodology enables strategic partners to achieve greater market penetration, return-on-investment and time-to-value.
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SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
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Checkmarx is the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development. Checkmarx delivers the industry’s most comprehensive Software Security Platform that unifies with DevOps and provides static and interactive application security testing, software composition analysis, and developer application security awareness and training programs to reduce and remediate risk from software vulnerabilities. Checkmarx is trusted by more than 40 percent of the Fortune 100 and half of the Fortune 50, including leading organizations such as SAP, Samsung, and Salesforce.com.
Strategic Sponsor
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Organisations rely on Beyond Identity to secure identities on the internet. Beyond Identity secures access to SaaS applications and cloud resources to protect data and privacy. Breaking down the barriers between cybersecurity, identity, and device management, Beyond Identity provides the most secure authentication on the planet, and dramatically improves the way the world logs in.
With the Beyond Identity Passwordless Identity Platform, organisations can eliminate passwords, positively verify user identities, confirm device trust, and enforce risk-based access controls. Beyond Identity enables security teams to implement zero-trust so their organisations can safely and securely work in hybrid-work environments with increasingly cloud-centric IT. Organisations turn to Beyond Identity to stop cyberattacks, protect their most critical data, and meet compliance requirements.
We offer SaaS, subscription-based software.
Founded in 2019, Beyond Identity is headquartered in NYC, and has offices in Boston, Dallas, and London.
For more information please visit https://www.beyondidentity.com/
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Organizations trust Cequence Security to protect their web apps and APIs with the most effective and adaptive defense against online fraud, business logic attacks, exploits and unintended data leakage, which enables them to remain resilient in today’s ever-changing business and threat landscape.
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Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides end-to-end intelligence across adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. Indexing the internet across the open web, dark web, and technical sources, Recorded Future provides real-time visibility into an expanding attack surface and threat landscape, empowering clients to act with speed and confidence to reduce risk and securely drive business forward. Headquartered in Boston with offices and employees around the world, Recorded Future works with over 1,700 businesses and government organizations across more than 75 countries to provide real-time, unbiased and actionable intelligence. Learn more at recordedfuture.com.
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Synack, the most trusted crowdsourced security testing platform, delivers on-demand security testing, intelligence, and operations through a continuous, offensive SaaS platform with crowdsourced talent. The company combines the world's most skilled and trusted ethical hackers with AI-enabled technology to create a scalable, effective security solution. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with regional offices around the world, Synack protects leading global banks, the top 10 global consulting firms and security companies, DoD classified assets, and over $2 trillion in Fortune 500 revenue. Synack was founded in 2013 by former NSA security experts Jay Kaplan, CEO, and Dr. Mark Kuhr, CTO. For more information please visit us at www.synack.com.
Education Seminar Sponsor
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Millions of Ransomware, Business Email Compromise and Credential Harvesting attacks bypass expensive email security solutions every year. They are in your users’ inboxes right now.
Cofense is the only company that combines a global network of 30 million people reporting phish with advanced AI-based automation to stop phishing attacks fast. That’s why over half of the Fortune 500 trust us.
We’re Cofense. We Stop Phish.
Our Phishing Detection and Response platform catches the phishing emails that your secure email gateway inevitably misses. We deliver the technology and insight needed to detect, analyze, and stop phishing attacks.
Cofense® is the leading provider of phishing detection and response solutions. Designed for enterprise organizations, the Cofense Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform leverages a global network of nearly 30 million people actively reporting suspected phish, combined with advanced automation to stop phishing attacks faster and stay ahead of breaches. When deploying the full suite of Cofense solutions, organizations can educate employees on how to identify and report phish, detect phish in their environment and respond quickly to remediate threats. With seamless integration into most major TIPs, SIEMs, and SOARs, Cofense solutions easily align with existing security ecosystems. Across a broad set of Global 1000 enterprise customers, including defense, energy, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors, Cofense understands how to improve security, aid incident response and reduce the risk of compromise. For additional information, please visit www.cofense.com or connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments and data protection. Today more than ever, people demand seamless, secure experiences, whether they’re crossing borders, making a purchase, accessing e-government services or logging into corporate networks. Entrust offers an unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions at the very heart of all these interactions. With more than 2,500 colleagues, a network of global partners, and customers in over 150 countries, it’s no wonder the world’s most entrusted organizations trust us.
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FireMon is the only real-time security policy management solution built for today’s complex multi-vendor, enterprise environments. Supporting the latest firewall and policy enforcement technologies spanning on-premises networks to the cloud, only FireMon delivers visibility and control across the entire IT landscape to automate policy changes, meet compliance standards, and minimize policy-related risk. Since creating the first-ever policy management solution in 2004, FireMon has helped more than 1,700 enterprises in nearly 70 countries secure their networks. FireMon leads the way with solutions that extend and integrate policy management with today’s latest technologies including SD-WAN, SASE, XDR, and SOAR.
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Malwarebytes founder and CEO Marcin Kleczynski started the company to create the best disinfection and protection solutions to combat the world’s most harmful Internet threats. Marcin was recently named “CEO of the Year” in the Global Excellence awards and has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Enterprise Technology list and the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award, adding those to an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
For more information: https://www.malwarebytes.com/business/
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ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation that offers comprehensive on-premises and cloud-native IT and security operations management solutions for global organizations and managed service providers. Established and emerging enterprises—including nine of every 10 Fortune 100 organizations—rely on ManageEngine's real-time IT management tools to ensure the optimal performance of their IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, endpoints and more. ManageEngine has 18 data centers, 20 offices and 200+ channel partners worldwide to help organizations tightly align their business to IT. For more information, please visit the company site, follow the company blog and get connected on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
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Vectra® is a leader in threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises. The Vectra platform uses AI to detect threats at speed across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and data centers. Only Vectra optimizes AI to detect attacker methods—the TTPs at the heart of all attacks—rather than simplistically alerting on “different”. The resulting high-fidelity threat signal and clear context enables security teams to respond to threats sooner and to stop attacks in progress faster. Organizations worldwide rely on Vectra for resilience in the face of dangerous cyber threats and to prevent ransomware, supply chain compromise, identity takeovers, and other cyberattacks from impacting their businesses. For more information, visit vectra.ai.
Networking Sponsor
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Green Method is a leading specialist Information Security Services provider in the UAE. Green Method was established in the UAE in 2008.
Over the years, Green Method has assisted various clients in Banking & Financial Services, Government, Utilities, Hospitality, Transportation, Retail and large & medium enterprises in multiple services offerings and has built an extensive clientele in the region.
Green Method provides a wide range of Consulting Services, Testing Services, Training and Solutions in this domain. Green Method recently launched Managed Security Services in Dubai through its subsidiary Green Sentries.
Green Method had been pioneering the cause of evangelizing the information security best practices in the country and has executed a number large and small turnkey projects for some of the leading organizations here. Green Method had been in the forefront in assisting the organizations to be aligned with the evolving security standards.
Green Method has shown exemplary efficiency in enhancing the security posture of the organizations, and that too within their stringent budgets, resulting in continuous, repeated engagements. Our prestigious list of customers includes some of the major names in the region in the financial, government and other sectors.
Green Method partners with the world majors in the domain. Our Partner Veracode provides the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform and has been ranked # 20 among the Forbes list of promising companies. Green Method has several other partnerships with leading providers like Mimecast, Wombat, Groundlabs, that has helped achieve the significant growth witnessed in the recent years.
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Digital Element, is the industry-leading geolocation and IP data services provider. Our solutions offer accurate and time-relevant information about online entities such as location, proxy/VPN, ISP, time zone, and more. Our accurate data allows real-time intelligence about inbound/outbound network traffic, provides location/connection type, identifies potential threats, and is critical to instantly identifying and evaluating suspicious transactions.
Our solutions help to: balance risk management, shore up fraud controls, and strengthen digital profiles; Identifying: suspect traffic, real-time global location data and mobile network information.
Customers such as JP Morgan Chase, BBC, AWS, Experian, Criteo, Oracle, Codewise, AppsFlyer, eTrade, DoubleVerify, SourceFire, eBay, LogRhythm, and more utilize our solutions.
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emt Distribution is Value Added Distributor that offers next generation cutting edge technologies which empowers businesses to boost productivity, partnering with the right technology will not only accelerate the growth rate but also ensures that company assets are safe. emt Distribution plays a significant role by positioning disruptive solutions specifically design as per the business needs.
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Help AG is the cybersecurity arm of e& enterprise (formerly Etisalat Digital) and provides leading enterprise businesses across the Middle East with strategic consultancy combined with tailored information security solutions and services that address their diverse requirements, enabling them to evolve securely with a competitive edge.
Present in the Middle East since 2004, Help AG was strategically acquired by e& (formerly Etisalat) in 2020, hence creating a cybersecurity and digital transformation powerhouse in the region.
Help AG has firmly established itself as the region's trusted IT security advisor by remaining vendor-agnostic, trustworthy, independent, and cybersecurity focused. With best-of-breed technologies from industry-leading vendor partners, expertly qualified service delivery teams and a state-of-the art consulting practice, Help AG delivers unmatched value to its customers by strengthening their cyber defenses and safeguarding their business.
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OPSWAT is a global leader in critical infrastructure cybersecurity that helps protect the world’s mission-critical organizations from malware and zero-day attacks. To minimize the risk of compromise, OPSWAT Critical Infrastructure Protection solutions enable both public and private organizations to implement processes that ensure the secure transfer of files and devices to and from critical networks. More than 1,000 organizations worldwide spanning Financial Services, Defense, Manufacturing, Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation Systems trust OPSWAT to secure their files and devices; ensure compliance with industry and government-driven policies and regulations, and protect their reputation, finances, employees and relationships from cyber-driven disruption. For more information on OPSWAT, visit www.opswat.com.