Kim Anstett has joined Trellix as Chief Information Officer, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR) (CIO). Anstett leads Trellix’s global information and technology systems organization as CIO and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).

Abdelilah Nejjari has been named as Cisco’s new Managing Director for the Gulf region. He will be based in Dubai and will be in charge of all operations in the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Abdelilah will be in charge of driving Cisco’s business growth and strategy

Delinea, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions for seamless security, announced the appointment of Mohammad Ismail as its new Middle East Regional Director. Ismail will lead Delinea’s regional sales and channel teams in his new role to further strengthen the company’s positioning.

“NetWitness has served the global infosec community for decades, reaching large complex enterprises and government agencies. The company’s focus has been to strengthen network, endpoint and log analytics in any computing environment,” said Naumann.

With approximately 15,000 guests in person and a live-streamed online event, this year’s Cisco Live hybrid event was the first of its kind. Following the event’s successful conclusion, Rabab Zehra, Executive Editor at TECHx spoke with Osama Al-Zoubi, CTO, Cisco Middle East and Africa, to go through the specifics of what happened. Here is what Osama had to say.