CoEIA Professor Invited as a Panelist at the Government DX Summit
Dr. Kashif Saleem joined the panel “Securing Digitization in an Era of Unprecedented Cyber Threats” at the Government DX Summit in Riyadh.
CoEIA KSU Professor Dr. Kashif Saleem participated as a panelist in a session titled “Securing Digitization in an Era of Unprecedented Cyber Threats” at the Government DX Summit, held on 5 and 6 November 2019 at the InterContinental Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
During the discussion, Dr. Saleem highlighted major factors of cybersecurity awareness as well as artificial intelligence in cybersecurity. “AI is a huge topic and a kind of umbrella that contains numerous algorithms, some of them nature-inspired. These algorithms are developed to resolve specific problems, and a number of them are combined together as a complete system. The system can handle cybersecurity if it contains the algorithms that are meant to detect vulnerabilities and tackle cyber attacks.”
He added that “multi-million dollar funded research projects are in the drawers of the Kingdom's universities such as King Saud University, where the local market can heavily benefit from them by collaborating with the project investigators, who are ready to cooperate.”
The panel was moderated by Mr. Javed Abbasi, Cybersecurity and Blockchain Expert, GISBA Bahrain, with panelists Mr. Sultan Altukhaim, Chief Information Security Officer, Capital Market Authority, and Dr. Ebrahim Al-Alkeem Al Zaabi, Chief Information Security Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation.
The summit was organized by BII World Ltd. to support effective, convenient and secure public services through digital transformation, including e-government, productivity, effective use of data and secure transactional services for citizens.
