It’s becoming increasingly clear that the world of tomorrow is being crafted by powerful forces – and it has become crucial for us to be prepared. As we make strides towards a more interconnected future, cybersecurity must stand as one of our foremost priorities if we are to safeguard against malicious intent from external threats. Nowhere else can this message ring truer than at CAISEC ’23, where leaders in cyber security will come together around the theme: Cybersecurity In A New World Order!
With over 1,200 cyber security professionals and 40 interactive sessions conducted across two days, the event brought together a wealth of expertise to further advance industry knowledge. From sponsors to attendees, all were in agreement that CAISEC ’22 went above and beyond expectations – already inspiring hundreds more registrations for this year’s conference along with dozens of top-level sponsors too! Excitement continues to build as we look forward to leading discussions on upcoming developments at CAISEC ’23.
“CAISEC ’22 saw high-level presence from government ministers, representatives of important bodies and a more than double of the pre-event-announced number of attendees”
The response was impressive to recommendations of the past event, few of which included:
And because CAISEC is not about talk, but more about action, all 18 recommendations were submitted to top-level political decision makers to take the necessary action. These recommendations were the outcome of discussions at CAISEC’22, which saw attendees representing:
CAISEC ’22 keynote speech was given by H.E. Minister of Finance Dr. Mohamed Maait, who describe how the entire financial and fiscal systems, including taxes and invoicing, are becoming momentarily available online. “As much as this presents itself as an excellent opportunity and overview for our decision-making process, it also poses a threat to our ability to keep the data safe from any incident”, the Minister said, “and such conference helps in offering the best means to do so properly”, he added.
H.E. Minister of Higher Education and Acting Minister of Health Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, spoke at the opening of CAISEC’22 about two levels; the first is providing the necessary curricula for college students to offer a market short of experts the needed entry levels of young professionals. “And as our health systems are all coming online, cyber, data and information security are much needed to protect patient privacy and medical records, let alone automated processes in hospitals”, Dr. Abdel Ghaffar said.
A significant shift in military industries and research was presented in the address of Minister of Military Production Gen. Mohamed Morsy, who spoke about specialized centres to train professionals on the new trends of cybersecurity.
One of the main highlights that was much admired by the audience was a presentation highlighting the 5th Warfare domain, namely cyberwars. General Ashraf Eleiwa presented the different generations of warfare up to how armies of the advanced world have taken this domain to represented the new corps in their armies. “This did not happen few months ago, but it officially took place more than a decade ago, some are defensive and others offensive”, he said
Chairman of Egypt’s Stock Exchange Mohamed Farid highlighted the entire digital transformation of the system to be fully online, thus requiring the solutions exhibited at caisec and even more. “We do not stop digging for more effective systems, as the attacks and threats are becoming more complex, defensive measures need to be more innovative and effective”, Farid said.
Egypt’s banking system is considered one of the most advanced in adopting cybersecurity measures, as the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) drew an entire framework of regulations to be followed by all banks working in Egypt. The CBE SOC is now instrumental in providing banks with alarms about new trends in cyber attacks and ways to confront them.
This is why all banking CISOs and CSOs were present along the 2-day conference. They even held their closed meeting at the conference, part of which included presentations from local and international solution providers. 45 CISOs and CSOs came up with their own recommendations at the close of their meeting.
H.E. Mohamed Morsy – Minister of Military Production
H.E. Kamel Al Wazir – Minister of Transport
H.E. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar – Minister of Higher Education & Acting Minister of Health
H.E. Ali Al-Moselhi – Minister of Supply and Internal Trade
H.E. Mohamed Maait – Minister of Finance
H.E. Mohamed Manar – Minister of Civil Aviation
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