@Hack 2021 - Day 03

Closing of this 3 days at @Hack in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

We can see that Saudi Arabia is actively preparing its transition and is giving itself all the means to shine in the field of cyber security.

Today I had the opportunity to attend different talks of the association Women in Cyber Security Middle East #WICSME2021

• Towards a resilient and empowered future by Rasha Abu Al-Saud CISO of The Saudi National Bank - SNB and Dr. Reem Faraj Al-Shammari from Kuwait Oil Company

• Fostering the next generation of woman in cybersecurity by Heide Young Head of Cybersecurity strategy and co-founder of Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Middle East UAE

• Smart, Yet Secure City by Noha AlGwaiz, Dheba Al-Rashid from Aramco, Dr. Fatemah Al-HArbi from Taibah University, Dr. Haya Al-Magawshi

The other conferences I attended today:

• Rage Alongside the machines - practical advice for automating response by Samantha Humphries and Jessica Cholerton from Exabeam

• Extraction and analysis of fileless malicious .NET Assemblies from memory dump by Mohammed Almodawah DFIR specialist

• XDR A Holistic approach by Tariq Bader cybersecurity technical solution architect at Cisco Secure

• Offensive security testing the new emerging standard for penetration testing by Ron Peeters VP of Synack, Inc.

• Security evaluation of industrial control systems using system emulation and fuzzing by Mihalis Maniatakos professor at New York University Abu Dhabi

• Cybersecurity risk management step-by-step by Dr. Faisal Abdullah Head of academy at Offensive Security

• Tor forensics : client memory artifacts by Malak Al-Fosail

• Practical threat hunting : straight facts and substantial impacts by Neil Wyler Global lead of active threat assesments at IBM X Force Red