StarLink’s third Annual Security Advisory Summit

DUBAI, UAE: StarLink has conducted its Annual Security Advisory Summit on December 9th, 2013 at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai.

The Summit attracted over 100 attendees including CIOs, CISOs, IT governance directors, IT risk managers, IT compliance managers, and IT audit and assurance professionals who came to hear about approaches to achieve next-generation compliance, to improve their organizations' governance, risk and compliance posture, as well as, to interact with a customer panel of IT Security leaders.

Mahmoud Nimer, GM, StarLink, said: "This is the third summit we have had the privilege of hosting and once again it turned out to be a tremendous success. The event included discussions, analysis and deep understanding of IT Security challenges surrounding Compliance today and customers who attended were given real world insight into how Compliance has evolved and what proactive IT Security measures companies must undertake in order to consistently remain compliant."

The Summit was hosted in partnership with six of StarLink's vendors, namely IBM, TITUS, Dell Software Group, Tripwire, SafeNet and Venafi, each of whom presented a relevant topic keeping in mind the theme of the conference.

The StarLink's Security Advisory Summit also honored certain individuals from customer organizations with awards to showcase their excellence in their field.

Abu Haque, ADCB, senior manager, IS monitoring and response won the Excellence in Information Security Adoption Award; Majeed Behzadi, Kuwait Finance House, executive manager- IT infrastructure planning and security management received the Excellence in Information Security Program Management Award; Amani Aljassmi, Dubai Municipality, head of IS security section was awarded the Excellence in Information Security Awareness Award; and Mahran Bader, Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, senior manager- IT security, bagged the Excellence in Information Security Compliance Management Award.

CISO of the Year Award was given to Ghanem Elshahry, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, head of governance, risk and compliance.

Most of these winners also joined the customer panel to close the event and reflect on their accomplishments for the year 2013, as well as, their perception of how to achieve next-generation compliance.