It was a pleasure to participate and give a talk at the ISC2 Secure Summits MENA, at the Mövenpick Hotel & Apartments Bur in Dubai. The event was very professionally organized as always by ISC2. The speaker dinner in the evening was amazing as well.

I believe this is the first conference where I give a talk and all the roughly 100 people attending the event are information security professionals and have security certifications. To be honest I don’t even remember ever having attended such an event in the past. I was very impressed by the skills and knowledge of the attendees, which was well demonstrated in the questions and feedback I got during and after my talk. Other speakers at the event included Naeem Musa (CISO of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission), Tamer Gamali (CISO at the National Bank of Kuwait), Lorna Trayan (associate partner with IBM Security), Saqib Chaudhry (CISO at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi).

As usual I didn’t take any pictures at the event itself. Adrian Davis (@adrian_adavis), ISC2’s Managing Director EMEA did take a few photos and posted them on twitter. I’m reposting them bellow.

The ISC2’s speaker dinner was exceptional as usual.

Dubai - Aamazing

I got a couple of days to walk around and explore Dubai. It’s an amazing place and everyone was super friendly. I hope I will get a chance to visit again and for a longer period of time. My all time favorite was Burj Khalifa, but the marina and the Dubai mall were also very nice. Here are a few photos.