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Cloud Security Cartoon featuring Dr Erdal – 2021

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Cloud Security Cartoon featuring Dr Erdal

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Cloud Roadshow Series 2021 Egypt Edition

About Cloud MENA

Middle East & North Africa Cloud Alliance is a vendor-agnostic industry association focused on monitoring, identifying and resolving issues around cloud adoption in the MENA region. MENACA strives to give the industry a unique voice and to provide a wide range of stakeholders with unbiased insights into the region’s cloud ecosystem. Our founding members include global as well as regional leading technology thought-leaders with a vested interest in creating a dialogue around cloud computing and its impact on MENA’s digital economies.
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Values We Bring to the Ecosystem

EXPERTISE

We have brought together experts from different aspects of cloud computing market.

DIALOGUE

We have created a platform for major industry players to have a meaningful dialogue.

NEUTRALITY

We have established the only regional vendor-neutral forum dedicated to cloud computing.

Omid is a community builder and a cloud evangelist. He has spent the last 10 years growing tech markets in both Asia and the Middle East. A well-recognized expert on IT transformation, Omid frequently speaks at events around the globe and regularly contributes thought leadership to the industry. As Founder and Executive Director of MENA Cloud Alliance, Omid is responsible for the organization’s overall strategy as well as leading MENACA toward becoming a regional cloud authority. Mr. Mahboubi also serves as cloud/big data consultant for a number of technology companies.
OMID MAHBOUBI Founder – Executive Director
Per has 20 years of experience growing technology companies and ICT industry trade groups to positions of market leadership, profitability and, in some cases, very successful exits. He possesses exceptional skills in managing cross-cultural business environments and has delivered double digit growth and healthy profit margins by successfully developing new revenue streams, new customers and new channels, whilst managing costs efficiently. A frequent public speaker, often quoted in industry press and by analysts. Per serves as the co-founder of MENA Cloud Alliance.

CISO Insight

Cybersecurity is not a product you buy or a project you complete — it is a continuous operational discipline. Organisations achieving genuine maturity embed security thinking into every business decision, invest in people and processes alongside technology, and build resilience for when preventive controls inevitably fail.

The Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape

The threat landscape continues evolving at a pace challenging even well-resourced teams. AI-powered attacks, supply chain compromises, ransomware-as-a-service, and state-sponsored campaigns create a multi-dimensional environment no single technology addresses. Organisations defending most effectively take a risk-based approach — understanding which assets are critical, which threats most likely, and where investments create greatest impact. For CISOs, translating complexity into actionable strategy requires quantifying cyber risk in business terms, prioritising based on risk reduction, and communicating in language that resonates with non-technical stakeholders.

Building a Defence-in-Depth Strategy

Effective cybersecurity requires layered defences addressing the full attack lifecycle. No single control is sufficient; every control can be bypassed by determined adversaries. The goal is creating enough layers that attackers must overcome multiple independent defences, while ensuring detection and response capabilities contain breaches before catastrophic damage. The most common mistake is treating security as a technology problem. The fundamentals — patch management, access control, security awareness, incident response planning — prevent more breaches than advanced technology.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the biggest cybersecurity mistake organisations make?

Buying tools without coherent strategy, skipping basic hygiene for advanced solutions, and failing to invest in people and processes. Fundamentals prevent more breaches than advanced technology.

How should CISOs prioritise security investments?

Start with risk assessment identifying critical assets and likely threats. Prioritise highest-risk scenarios. Ensure basic hygiene before advanced capabilities. Use NIST CSF or CIS Controls to structure your programme.

Related reading: Visit our Cyber Resilience Hub or download the CISO Toolkit.

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