Navigating Secure Digital Growth with Zscaler's Kamel Tamimi
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00:00My name is Gaben Terimi, I'm a senior consultant at Zscaler Middle East and Africa.
00:10So Zscaler is a company that envisions simplifying digital transformation while securing it.
00:17And this is why we are here today.
00:19The Middle East, especially the Gulf countries, especially UAE and Saudi, are the biggest
00:24adopters of digital transformation, cloud transformation, and we are here to engage
00:29with our customers to give them an idea about the newest innovation in Zero Trust connectivity,
00:35AI protection, AI cybersecurity, and also how we can help them simplify this digital
00:41transformation and accelerate their adoption.
00:50Zero Trust matters because now connectivity matters.
00:53The data is no longer in the castle, as we used to call it, the data centers, conventional
00:58data centers.
00:59It's everywhere.
01:00It's in the cloud, it's in the SaaS application, it's still a cyber hybrid setup as data centers.
01:08So securing the connectivity needs a new way, and Zero Trust as a framework for connectivity,
01:14for risk-adaptive connectivity, is very important.
01:19And absolutely with this, all the usage of this data and all these different threads,
01:24AI becomes a threat, becomes a tool to use to protect yourself, to utilize it to accelerate
01:31your business, but there are threats coming of it, especially on the privacy, especially
01:36on the data, or AI-generated threats.
01:39And this is today where on these three verticals of using the AI, utilizing the AI, protecting
01:44from the AI, where we want to have a better understanding of what are our customer use
01:50cases, how they look at it, and how we can help them unravel these mysteries around AI.
01:55It's not another buzzword.
01:57It's something you have it in your phone, you use it for your work, how you can use
02:02it safely, how you can protect yourself from it, and ensure this utilization is taken to
02:08the maximum without losing any private information.
02:11It's an old saying that cybersecurity should be to enable business, not to stop it, and
02:21this is what cybersecurity's main role here is.
02:25How can I make sure that the key stakeholder within any organization is confident enough
02:32that this tool has been secured enough, that I have the right amount of information, visibility,
02:39and control to this tool to ensure that when I'm allowing to use this tool, everything
02:44has been regulated, everything has been observed.
02:47And this is not on organizational level.
02:49The UAE and Saudi in general, as a leading country in the region, have adopted a very
02:57progressive position towards cloud adoption, AI adoption.
03:03So there are some regulations, there are some concerns that we address and we work
03:09with our legislator in every country to understand this regulation, but they did not stop it
03:17at all like some, what they call it, the Eastern model of panning everything until it's too late.
03:25So this is great because this has allowed the customer to explore what option they have
03:30and where this option and what security tools can go with this option so they can utilize
03:36it in a proper manner and ensure that they have the security in place to enable the business,
03:42but also to simplify the business and not complicate it with so much regulation, so
03:47much tool, and so much limitation on the usage of these great tools that can have, of course, a side effect.
04:00I mean, it's been the same, I would say, all the advice, there have been a lot of buzzwords
04:07in the cyber security, the blockchain, the AI, the zero trust.
04:14And this is where it's very important to go to your trusted partners, trusted vendors
04:21and try to understand this concept properly and not just because you have the AI attached
04:29to any product name or zero trust attached to any offering name, that means it's actually,
04:35to understand how this can work for you and what business cases it results for you.
04:40Our job is to enable the businesses, to enable the employees, to enable the economies of
04:45these nations to grow and to reach their potential, but in a secure way, it's not to stop it.
04:52So this kind of conversation, awareness and building this trust allow us as a vendor
04:59to work with you to see what are the needs, what are the business cases that we can help
05:04you solve and how we can enable your business in a secure fashion.