NIST SP 800-81r3: A Long-Overdue Wake-Up Call for DNS Security
The release of NIST SP 800-81 Revision 3 marks a turning point in how organizations must think about DNS. Once treated as a background utility,...
Category : Guest Talk
Forward-Looking Technical Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI Hesitation
Adam Spearing, VP of AI GTM EMEA at ServiceNow, explores why technical debt has become one of the biggest barriers to AI-driven transformation and how...
The Governance–Growth Paradox: Policy Can Accelerate Sovereign AI, If Applied by Design
“Implementing “safe lanes” for AI requires moving from principle to structure. First, authority must be explicit. Clear role definitions and stewardship responsibilities reduce ambiguity across...
Driving Efficiency and Insight – The Digital Twin Advantage in the GCC
By: Tommaso Stefano Tini, Head of Digital Twin Market Growth and Consulting at Omnix International Digital twin today is moving from researching and testing to...
The confused deputy – tackling an age-old threat that is going through revival thanks to agentic AI
Noel Mouwannes, Director – Middle East at BeyondTrust, discusses an age-old attack method that is regaining popularity in the era of agentic AI. The confused deputy problem involves an...
AI Autonomy in the Middle East and Africa: Why Strategic Control Matters
Open ecosystems—not technological dependence—will define the region’s AI future Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a defining factor in national competitiveness. Across the Middle East and...
The Resilience and Sovereignty Mandate: How Critical Infrastructures are Forcing Cybersecurity’s Evolution
Why CISOs Must Shift from Traditional Security to a Resilience‑First, Sovereign‑Ready Cyber Strategy Meeting after meeting, keynote speech after keynote speech, I realize that the...
Asset Visibility and Attack Surface Management in the Age of AI
As organizations race to adopt AI-driven IT and security operations, many are discovering that automation is only as effective as the data behind it. In...
Why Cloud Operations Are Struggling and What Organisations in the MEA Region Are Missing
As hybrid and multi-cloud environments become the default across the Middle East and Africa, many organisations are discovering that visibility alone is not enough to...
The $6 Trillion Gap: Why the Traditional SaaS Model Is Finally Breaking
Why Agentic AI Is Collapsing a Decade-Old Pricing Model and Triggering a $6 Trillion Shift in Enterprise Value For a decade, enterprise software has been...