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PAST AGENDA
OPENING REMARKS
BY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE – IBENTO GLOBAL
10:00am - 10:10am
ARE AFRICAN COUNTRIES DOING ENOUGH TO ENSURE CYBERSECURITY AND INTERNET SAFETY?
OPENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
10:15am - 10:30am

In Africa, many countries have seen a rise in reports of digital threats and malicious cyber activities. The results include sabotaged public infrastructure, losses from digital fraud and illicit financial flows, and national security breaches involving espionage and intelligence theft by militant groups.

Addressing these vulnerabilities requires a greater commitment to cybersecurity. This requires enforceable policy safeguards, risk prevention and management approaches, along with technologies and infrastructure that can protect each country's cyber environment, as well as individual and corporate end-user assets.

HOW AFRICAN STATES CAN IMPROVE THEIR CYBERSECURITY
C-SUITE PANEL DISCUSSION
10:35am - 11:20am

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization around the world, but as life has shifted increasingly online, cybercriminals have exploited the opportunity to attack vital digital infrastructure. States across Africa, where digital capacity continues to lag the rest of the world, have emerged as a favorite target of cybercriminals, with costly consequences.

African states and regional bodies have taken initial steps toward implementing a continent-wide strategy to improving cyber-resiliency, but the vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic requires these efforts to be accelerated by building the institutional and coordinating mechanisms to better mitigate cybersecurity threats.

OPENING REMARKS
BY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE – IBENTO GLOBAL
10:00am - 10:10am
LEAPFROGGING TO ZERO-TRUST PLATFORMS
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
10:15am – 10:30am

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the journey to zero-trust platforms as virtually the world’s entire workforce was shoved outside a defined network perimeter, forcing organizations to secure end users who are working remotely as well as fix anomalies and configuration issues revealed by the new approach.

BUILDING CYBER RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF RANSOMWARE ATTACKS
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
10:35am – 10:50am
IMPACT OF REMOTE WORK: NEW THREATS AND SOLUTIONS
PANEL DISCUSSION
10:55am – 11:40am

It’s no surprise that COVID-19 and the resulting shift to remote work had major implications for the world of cybersecurity. For many, it involved unplanned cloud migrations and swift procurement of IT products and services to accommodate a newly remote landscape. In the effort to keep business operations running, many companies rushed typical security measures or even side-stepped them entirely, creating new levels of vulnerability and risk across all industries.

Not only that, but the world of remote work isn’t going anywhere post-pandemic. Organizations will need to assess their current security infrastructures for areas of weakness that were left unattended during the sudden shift to remote and start thinking about a long-term remote security strategy going forward.

If your organization experienced a sudden shift to a remote workforce, you must identify areas of weakness that left your company vulnerable to threats.

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