Platinum Sponsor
Booz Allen leverages its past to help clients prepare for the future. Our legacy in management consulting enables us to see, hear, and innovate on behalf of our clients in ways our competitors cannot. Each day, we look beyond the requirements of a single client engagement to address the broader context of our client’s mission and business goals.
Our approach is framed by the key distinction that we don’t have customers, we serve clients. Our long track record of client satisfaction is evidenced by this: We have relationships that go back an average of more than 20 years with our 10 largest client organizations. Our ability to meet and exceed client expectations originates in a well-established collaborative culture uniquely supported by the firm’s operating model.
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Gold Sponsor
Cassidian, an EADS company, is a worldwide leader in global security solutions and systems, providing Lead Systems Integration and value-added products and services to civil and military customers around the globe. These include : Air systems (aircraft and unmanned aerial systems); land, naval and joint systems; intelligence and surveillance; cyber security; secure communications; test systems; missiles, services and support solutions.
Cassidian is a major supplier of Security solutions to governments in Europe and in the Middle East, with a number of on-going projects.
Against the increasing threats on Information Systems, Cassidian has developed a comprehensive portfolio of cyber security solutions, with the aim of being acknowledged by customers in all areas (governments, companies and critical infrastructure) as the European leader in this field, on the basis of its recognised experience in assessment, consulting, products and services.
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Gold Sponsor
Over the past 25-plus years, Dell has played a central role in transforming computing worldwide. In today’s fast-changing climate, we are applying the same revolutionary approach to re-energizing our company, our brand, our products and services, and ourselves, with customers as the primary beneficiaries. This work is propelling Dell into a new, exciting chapter in the company’s history.
As we embark on the work of transforming Dell to set new standards for customer experience, technology solutions and operational excellence, we continue to be driven by a shared purpose:
“ Delivering Technology Solutions that enable people everywhere to grow and thrive.”
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Gold Sponsor
AccessData Group has pioneered digital investigations and litigation support for over 20 years and is the maker of the industry-standard computer forensics technology, FTK, as well as the leading legal review technology, Summation. The group provides a broad spectrum of standalone and enterprise-class solutions that enable digital investigations of any kind, including computer forensics, incident response, legal review, IP theft, compliance auditing and information assurance.
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Gold Sponsor
Lancope, Inc.® is the leading provider of flow-based monitoring to ensure high-performing and secure networks for global enterprises. Unifying critical network performance and security information for borderless network visibility, Lancope provides actionable insight that reduces the time between problem onset and resolution.
Enterprise customers worldwide, including healthcare, financial services, government and higher education institutions, rely on Lancope to make better network decisions and avoid costly outages and downtime. Founded in 2000, Lancope is continuously innovating to stay ahead of customer demands and marketplace trends, holding five patents and more than 130 proprietary algorithms.With Lancope, you can know your network and run your business better.
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Gold Sponsor
InfoWatch is an innovative software developing company, delivering cutting-edge comprehensive modular solutions in the field of information monitoring, analysis and storage, including data loss prevention (DLP).
InfoWatch technologies enable our customers to:
- prevent data loss
- manage customer experience
- protect intellectual property
- manage risks and meet compliance requirements
InfoWatch delivers customers packaged solutions to control their information flow and gather evidence in case of litigation (forensics), as well as provides high-quality, result-driven information security audit and consulting services
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Silver Sponsor
Sypris Solutions is a diversified provider of technology-based outsourced services and specialty products. The Company performs a wide range of manufacturing and technical services, typically under multi-year, sole-source contracts with major corporations and government agencies in the markets for aerospace and defense electronics and truck components. We employ approximately 1,200 people and assemble our products and provide our services at manufacturing locations in the United States and Mexico. We are headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Silver Sponsor
ST Electronics (Info-Security) [STEE-InfoSec] is a technology-driven company specializing in the design, development and manufacturing of advanced info-assurance products for the protection of data-in-motion, data-at-rest, as well as digital authentication. Complementing these product development capabilities, STEE-InfoSec also provides security solution integration services for the deployment of enterprise infosecurity infrastructure.
With an experienced and competent product development team, STEE-InfoSec is responsible for its DigiSAFE branded range of products which includes Hardware-based disk encryption, USB authentication tokens for identity management and, Hardware encryption devices for securing phone, fax, data and IP networks.
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Silver Sponsor
Established in 2004 by a group of Omani information security professionals, InfoShield has grown into a robust firm that offers a full line of world-class information security solutions including awareness training and education, a state of the art Security Operation Center for 24 hour monitoring and security surveillance as well as professional consultation.
We plan, design, build and support security infrastructures while helping our clients make the best technology choices in order to reduce costs and down time and increase return-on-investment and productivity. Our employees have extensive experience in the areas of corporate and government information security, monitoring, security auditing, awareness training and systems administration. We are proud to have reached a 98% Omanization rate and are dedicated to the professional development of our staff.
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Silver Sponsor
Secunia is the leading provider of IT security solutions that help businesses and private individuals globally manage and control vulnerability threats and risks across their networks and endpoints. This is enabled by Secunia’s award-winning Vulnerability Intelligence, Vulnerability Assessment, and Patch Management solutions that ensure optimal and cost-effective protection of critical information assets.
Secunia’s proven, complementary portfolio aids businesses in their handling of complex IT security risks and compliance requirements across industries and sectors – a key component in corporate risk management assessment, strategy, and implementation.
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Panel Sponsor
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions helping people and businesses realise their full potential. Microsoft Gulf opened its Dubai-based headquarters in 1991, and today oversees activities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE.
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Bronze Sponsor
Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions — delivered as a service. Qualys’ Software-as-a-Service solutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in the world, providing customers an immediate and continuous view of their security and compliance postures.
The QualysGuard® service is used today by more than 5,000 organizations in 85 countries, including 50 of the Fortune 100 and performs over 500 million IP audits per year. Qualys has the largest vulnerability management deployment in the world at a leading global company.
Qualys has established strategic agreements with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including BT, Etisalat, Fujitsu, IBM, I(TS)2, LAC, NTT, SecureWorks, Symantec, Tata Communications and TELUS
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Bronze Sponsor
Ernst & Young is a globally recognized leader in knowledge management. We invest in developing processes and systems for our people to create, share and reuse our intellectual capital on a global scale, enabling us to efficiently deliver the most relevant insights for you.
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Bronze Sponsor
Advanced Integrated Solutions (AIS) is a joint venture between Global Strategies Group (GLOBAL) and The Zubair Corporation (Zubair) to support the defence and national security priorities of the Sultanate of Oman.
In forming AIS, GLOBAL and Zubair are pursuing a shared mission to develop local capacity through a combination of local knowledge and experience and international best practices.
GLOBAL has a strong track record as a trusted advisor to governments in countering threats to national interests and critical infrastructure. The Zubair Corporation has an exemplary reputation for pursuing the national interests of Oman through investment, education and training.
Working together under the AIS banner is a highly capable team, with a clear understanding of the threat environment, deep technological expertise and strong cultural awareness. This enables AIS to develop effective and sustainable solutions to address Oman’s most pressing national security concerns.
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Bronze Sponsor
Since its inception in 2001, Bitdefender has continued to raise the bar to set new standards in proactive threat prevention and virus removal, in many cases leading the way in the best Internet security detection techniques to prevent the spread of malicious threats.
Thanks to its first-class products and state of the art technologies, the company rapidly expanded into a worldwide leader. Bitdefender made its entrance on the international market when opening offices in the UK, USA, Germany, France and Spain, as well as establishing strategic partnerships and a local presence in over 100 countries globally.
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Bronze Sponsor
Sekimia was founded in 2008 in the sole aim of allowing information security and business continuity practitioners to Speak Security in the Language of Business. As in any language, the Vocabulary (Sekimia V1.X), the Grammar (Sekimia’s Mindset) and the Pronunciation (Sekimia’s e-coaching) matter.
We at Sekimia believe that Business Process Management is a mandatory bridge towards information security and business continuity. It is a splendid opportunity to provide common goals and to bring people from many sectors and levels of the organization into a positive collaboration. BPM is the corner stone for efficient information security and business continuity governance schemes.
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Bronze Sponsor
We work with companies to help them succeed. For some of our clients this means helping them steer away from the status quo while incorporating new concepts into their validated strategies. For others we can help to define market and technological expertise needed during product rollout and company annual planning. Overall, we structure collaborations that naturally develop in conjunction with a long term business development strategy.
We aim to leverage our clients existing expertise and technologies to not only reduce the cost of business development efforts but to introduce new capacities for identifying, researching and ultimately bringing to market new business. Our effort focuses on implementation of agreed strategic business plans that target specific markets, generate leads, and provide follow-up sales activity for our clients’ marketing channels.
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Bronze Sponsor
It’s what you don’t know that makes you vulnerable. Both in software security testing and network management, it is essential to know your products and systems to protect them. With Codenomicon’s proactive security testing software and situation awareness tools you can discover the problems at the earliest possible moment.
Proactive security testing. Codenomicon Defensics is a proactive testing solution for finding and mitigating both known and unknown vulnerabilities in software even before deployment, improving application and network security. In the core of the solution is fuzz testing, a method where invalid input are fed to the system under test to expose vulnerabilities.
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Bronze Sponsor
Idea Entity was founded in 2006 by Microsoft alumni, with the core goal of partnering with local startups to transform ideas into executed products. This early activity in the startup community was what shaped our maturity as a consulting organization. Idea Entity methodologies are solely focused ondriving measurable business valuefor our clients.
In the private sector, with our specialization in Microsoft technologies, Idea Entity has successfully partnered with Fortune 500 clients to deliver solutions that drive business value using innovative technology solutions. For government organizations, our 8(a) certification and approved IT Schedule 70 contract have empowered our growth in the public sector.
Idea Entity’s consulting model is strong because of our unwavering focus on understanding the real-life business context of our clients – and because of the strength of the team we bring to the table
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Bronze Sponsor
First Information Security was established as part of First Security Group with 100 per cent focus on information security. Its strength lies upon its strategic partnerships with world class vendors in the information security, highly skilled staff and the strong advisory members including the inventor of internet security.
