The 3rd Annual Middle East Cyber Security 2017 opened at the Riyadh Marriott Hotel, Sunday. The event is organized by Nispana Innovative Platforms in association with DNJ, Saudi Arabia. The theme is "Critical infrastructure information protection - key to cyber readiness". Narendra Kumar, Managing Director, Nispana Innovative Platforms, said this summit focuses on future expected threats and measures and also aims at global collaboration of public, private and academic sectors.. The event had a large number of senior IT, Information security, ICT and cyber security officials to discuss, find strategic directions and plans to tackle emerging threats to the regional information security sector. The highlight of the day was the opening keynote address by Russel Gann, CIO, and Ministry of the National Guard which set the tone for the further deliberations in the day. The interactive panel discussion on "Collaboration between governments and private sector and establishing Public - Private Partnerships (PPPs) to manage threats to critical Information Infrastructures." The event features prominent speakers like Russel Gann, CIO, Ministry of the National Guard; Professor Basel Alomair, Founding Director - National Center for Cyber Security Technologies (C4C), King Abdulaziz City for Science; Abdul Rashid Samater – Ministry of Justice; Ali Fateh – President, ISACA Riyadh; Michael Steed, Founder & Managing Partner, Paladin Capital Group; Gordon Lawson, Senior Vice President - Global Sales, PhishMe; Abdus Saboor- Cyber Security Leader, EITC just to name a few. Various round table discussions had very good participation from the delegates. Some of the prominent attendees included senior officials from Ministry of Agriculture; Ministry of Health; Ministry of Interior; National Guard Health Affairs; Royal Saudi Air Force; General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA); King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology; SAMA; Arab National Bank and Khatib & Alami. — SG
