Security Day | Dubai

Name: Security Day | Dubai
Start: 2026-11-19T04:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-19T12:40:00.000Z
Location: Dubai, UAE

The Autonomous Enterprise: Strategic Risk Optimisation & Systemic Trust

Thursday 19 November 2026

Dubai, UAE

Hosted by Factor

2 attendees
8 hours

Overview

In 2026, the CISO has emerged as the primary architect of enterprise trust and corporate value preservation. As organisations transition from experimental AI to autonomous operating models, leadership requires a sophisticated realignment of defensive capital, platform infrastructure, and structural governance.

This summit explores the shift toward securing agentic workflows, sovereign cloud defense strategies, and the optimisation of continuous exposure management as a core business asset. We examine how CISOs balance aggressive operational innovation with predictive resilience and regulatory agility to build an anti-fragile organisation. By integrating identity-first architectures with high-leverage defense platforms, this event provides the roadmap for leaders to drive long-term operational continuity and define the resilient soul of the enterprise toward 2030.

What we will cover

Predictive Defence Shifting from reactive security alerting to automated, threat-modelling prevention engines.
Platform Harmonisation Reducing infrastructure complexity by moving from fragmented point solutions to unified vendor stacks.
Risk Quantification Translating technical system vulnerabilities into board-aligned financial exposure metrics.
Agentic Safeguards Establishing continuous visibility and guardrails around autonomous machine-to-machine logic.
Identity Sovereignty Redefining enterprise boundaries by enforcing continuous policy verification for non-human machine identities.
Cryptographic Agility Future-proofing high-value corporate data assets against long-horizon quantum computing threats.
Continuous Exposure Moving beyond point-in-time penetration tests toward automated, continuous attack path validation.
Supply Assurance Mitigating systemic third-party risk through continuous telemetry sharing and contractual security SLAs.
Operational Continuity Rebranding disaster recovery programs into automated, rapid-recovery business survival pipelines.
Defensive Automation Optimising SOC workflows to absorb routine alerts and minimise human analyst burnout.
Regulatory Agility Aligning multi-cloud security baselines with evolving UAE federal cybersecurity and data mandates.
Crisis Diplomacy Managing executive stakeholder communications and legal liabilities during high-impact incident responses.

Agenda

8:30 am Networking Breakfast(Security Day - Plenary)
9:15 am Welcome Address(Security Day - Plenary)
9:25 am Translating Cyber Risk into Corporate Value: The Boardroom Dialectic(Security Day - Plenary) The modern CISO operates as a core business strategist focused on risk optimization and capital preservation. This opening keynote outlines how forward-thinking security leaders utilise Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) to translate system integrity metrics into definitive financial models, ensuring technology risk management aligns seamlessly with corporate growth objectives.
9:45 am The Security Platform Imperative: Architecting a Harmonised Enterprise Ecosystem(Security Day - Plenary) Modern enterprise security demands a shift away from fragmented point solutions towards integrated, platform-centric architectures. This session explores how pioneering organisations are partnering with strategic vendors to build unified security ecosystems enhancing telemetry visibility, reducing operational friction, and leveraging automated orchestration to deliver a superior return on security investments.
10:05 am Defending at Machine Speed: Architectural Frameworks for Trusted Agentic AI(Security Day - Plenary) As autonomous AI agents and automated logic become deeply integrated into corporate workflows, security must evolve into a core enabler of system integrity. This session delivers a strategic blueprint for designing resilient, high-visibility operational environments, exploring proactive architectural design patterns, telemetry tracking, and governance frameworks that allow the business to deploy advanced automation safely and with total confidence.
10:25 am The Power of C-Suite Convergence in Building Resilience That Boards Support(Security Day - Plenary) Join an expert, cross-function C-Suite panel as they explore how partnerships among top executives are essential for addressing today’s global megatrends. Moving beyond the buzzwords of fusion teams, this discussion will focus on the importance of collaborative leadership in navigating shifts in technology, governance, and market dynamics, showcasing how integrated strategies across business functions can bolster organisational resilience and agility.
10:55 am Networking Break & Morning Tea(Security Day)
11:25 am Peer-Driven Debate(Security Day)
11:55 am The Trusted Boundary: Redefining Identity & Access Management for Machine Ecosystems(Security Day) The expansion of cloud ecosystems, APIs, and machine-to-machine interactions requires highly sophisticated approach to enterprise identity. This session details the transition towards identity-first security architectures, demonstrating how to enforce continuous verification and granular, policy-driven authorization across all machine and software actors.
0:15 pm Navigating Digital Sovereignty: Compliance Integration in the Middle East(Security Day) Evolving regional regulatory frameworks and data residency requirements offer an excellent opportunity for organizations to build market trust. This conversation details how regional security leaders are designing flexible, compliant architectures that support international supply chains whilst seamlessly meeting UAE federal data localization mandates.
0:35 pm The Cyber Resilience Mandate: Optimising Business Continuity & Recovery(Security Day) In a fast-moving threat landscape, organisational success is defined by how rapidly a business maintains operations and recovers value. This luncheon presentation explores the rebranding of security functions into broader business resilience programs, focusing on minimising operational downtime and guaranteeing continuity for core client services.
0:55 pm Cryptographic Agility: Future-Proofing the Enterprise for Post-Quantum Realities(Security Day) Advancements in compute capabilities require proactive long-term planning to protect high-value corporate data assets. This session addresses the strategic necessity of mapping cryptographic dependencies and implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), ensuring enduring data preservation and organizational readiness.
1:15 pm Lunch Break & Peer Connect(Security Day)
2:15 pm CISO Exchange(Security Day)
2:45 pm Mitigating Systemic Exposure: Collaborative Third-Party Risk Management(Security Day) Modern enterprises rely on vast networks of software and service providers, making collaborative risk management essential. This session outlines how to elevate vendor ecosystem security from manual check-box questionnaires to mutually beneficial, data-driven security validation partnerships.
3:05 pm Continuous Exposure Management: Maximising Security Effectiveness and Visibility(Security Day) Proactive defense requires a continuous, holistic understanding of the enterprise attack surface. This session details how to transition to a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework, using automated validation and architectural path analysis to optimize remediation efforts and protect critical assets before challenges arise.
3:25 pm Optimising the Modern SOC: Workforce Enablement via Intelligent Automation(Security Day) Attracting and retaining premier security talent requires modernizing the operational environment. This session presents structural methods for elevating Security Operations Centers (SOCs), using intelligent automation to manage high-volume triage and freeing security professionals to focus on strategic threat hunting and engineering.
3:45 pm Executive Executive Leadership & Corporate Diplomacy: Directing High-Stakes Operations(Security Day) Leading large-scale corporate operations through complex tech landscapes demands exceptional communication skills, diplomacy, and executive emotional intelligence. This candid discussion covers the personal and leadership dynamics required to guide executive stakeholders, satisfy regulators, and maintain clear strategic direction during high-pressure scenarios.
4:05 pm The Closing Panel: The Innovation Horizon: Macroeconomic Factors Altering the UAE Tech Landscape(Security Day) A comprehensive closing assembly featuring prominent security leaders from across the region to synthesize the day's insights. This strategic panel steps away from daily operations to analyze how global macroeconomic trends, technological investments, and trade partnerships will shape Middle Eastern corporate defense strategies over the next three years.
4:35 pm Closing Vision: The CISO as Strategy Architect(Security Day) Moving beyond defensive perimeter control to serve as the primary architect of enterprise survival and market trust. The CISO's mandate towards 2030 is to design the enterprise's "Resilient Soul", the invisible, systemic framework of cryptographic agility, adaptive trust, and operational integrity that preserves the corporate identity and shields corporate assets under continuous automation.

Speakers

Saleem AlBlooshi · Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Du
Pedro Sousa Cardoso · Chief Information Officer (CIO), Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Divyesh Vithlani · Group Chief Technolog & Transformation Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
Marwan Bin Haidar · Executive Vice President - Innovation & The Future, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority - DEWA
Miguel Rio-Tinto · Group CDIO, Emirates NBD
Himanshu Shrivastava · Chief Technology Officer (CTO/CIO/CDO), Ai-Futtiam
Veneeth Purushotaman · Group CIO, Aster DM Healthcare
Shameek Kundu · Chief AI Officer, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Noman Rasheed · Chief Information Officer, Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB)
Dena AlMansoori · Group CTIO, ADNOC Group
Frank Meyer · Chief Digital Officer, Etihad
Oliver Skagerlind · Group CTO, Dubai Holding
Khalid Murshed · Group COO / CEO, e& enterprise
Olivier Busolini · Group CISO, Mashreq Bank
Mohamed Abdel Razek · Group Head of Technology, Information, and Transformation, Mashreq Bank
Mohammed Al Rais · CEO, Al Rais Investment
Krishnan Gopi · Group Chief Distruption Officer, Aldar
Jasim Al Awadi · Chief ICT Officer, Du
Veresh Sita · Chief Digital Officer, Emaar
Sean Langton · Chief Information Officer (CIO), Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank