While digitalization offers enormous opportunities and solutions to many challenges, including the COVID-19 crisis, it also exposes the Middle East and Africa region and society to large-scale cyber threats. Today, cybersecurity has become a buzzword in every industry, as the cyber landscape is becoming complex, bold, and threatened. The modern world is comprised of two types of organizations: those who have been breached and those who do not yet know that they’ve been breached. A company's ability to detect sophisticated breaches, as well as their speed in doing so, is challenged.

Given the large amount of critical data used by companies, cyber security is becoming more and more imperative. In today's digital environment, the threat of being attacked seems limitless, but cybersecurity professionals are also developing cutting-edge protection solutions to eliminate these threats and mitigate attacks. The CYBERSECURITY CONFERENCE MEA provided the perfect setting to learn about current cybersecurity risks and potential threats, as well as best practices for proactively securing companies, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence applied to the energy sector.