The annual HITB+CyberWeek 2021 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre will bring together the world’s greatest cyber security specialists (ADNEC).
DisruptAD, ADQ’s venture platform that links pioneering, creative, and entrepreneurial minds to disrupt the standard and expand internationally from Abu Dhabi, is bringing HITB+CyberWeek 2021. Under the four pillars of Hacking, Making, Building, and Breaking, the event will include a recognised panel of international experts to analyse the industry’s shifting landscape.
Dhillon Kannabhiran, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HITB, said: “Over the course of almost two decades, HITB’s reputation for holding insightful, ground-breaking discussions has grown by transcending geographic boundaries to bring together the global cyber security community. Now this community can come together in Abu Dhabi to share new ideas, and facilitate networking among like-minded people, helping solve tomorrow’s security challenges.”
More than 50 of the world’s most knowledgeable subject matter experts will share their ideas and skills over two days at the HITB Security Conference at HITB+CyberWeek 2021. On November 24, H.E. Faisal Al Bannai, EDGE’s CEO and Managing Director, will give a welcome address, followed by H.E.Dr. Mohammad Al Kuwaiti, the UAE Government’s Head of Cyber Security, who will offer the opening keynote speech.
Two international keynote speakers, Matt Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Ledger, and Chema Alonso, Hacker, Cybersecurity Expert, and Chief Digital Officer at Telefónica, will round out the packed agenda. The ‘Alt-Payments and Crypto: The Future is Now’ section, hosted by Matt Johnson, will discuss foreign crypto ecosystems, current perspectives, and some of the issues these ecosystems are posing to individual and institutional investors.
In the meanwhile, Chema Alonso’s keynote, “Gremlin Apps & Gremlin Botnets,” will look at the ease and complications of constructing gremlin botnets and controlling gremlin applications.The presentation will delve into a number of specific themes, including the necessity of changing single applications to perform advanced persistent threats (APTs) against specific targets.
The HITB Security Conference will also feature a number of keynote speakers, including Ben Nassi, a security researcher from Ben Gurion University. He will discuss how eavesdroppers can convert light to sound passively, externally, and in real-time to recover speech from physical and virtual conversations by analysing optical measurements obtained via telescope-mounted electro-optical sensors as part of his ‘Electro-optical Sound Eavesdropping’ speech.
The HITB Security Conference (with some sessions available to the public) and paid security trainings are combined in HITB+CyberWeek 2021. Attendees will also have access to special content and participate in on-site security competitions. With this year’s hybrid event mixing live streaming for virtual attendees from around the world with the real stage at ADNEC for in-person attendees, our world has evolved, and so has HITB.
