Cybersecurity Challenges and Predictions

7:00 p.m.  Seminar Hall,

Bahrain IET Local Network

BSE, Juffair,  Kingdom of Bahrain.


Sunday 25 Sept. 2016. 

Speaker:   Hakem B. Isa,  Executive Security Advisor IBM, USA.


Abstract:  Cybersecurity Challenges and Predictions:  A new security reality is here, where…

Sophisticated attackers break through conventional safeguards every day.

Organized criminals, hacktivists, governments and adversaries are compelled by financial gain, politics and notoriety to attack your most valuable assets. Their operations are well-funded and business-like %u2012 attackers patiently evaluate targets based on potential effort and reward. Their methods are extremely targeted %u2012 they use social media and other entry points to track down people with access, take advantage of trust, and exploit them as vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, negligent employees inadvertently put the business at risk via human error. Even worse, security investments of the past can fail to protect against these new classes of attacks. The result is more severe security breaches more often.


Speaker BIO:

With 27 years in the industry and 18 years with IBM.  Mr. Isa help and shaped the requirements for high frequency trading for most of the Wall St. customer  With IBM, Mr. Isa had  many different technical  and leadership position and lead complex projects .  In 2011-2014 MR. Isa play a key role with the IBM expansion in Midleeast and Africa, upon returning to the US, Mr. Isa has been very focus on the Cloud and Security.  In my current role as Executive Security Advisor, I work with CISO to shape the discussion around risk management the required investment in Security.   Mr. Isa is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon CISO program and the MIT Sloan executive program in Management and leadership.