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Career Opportunities for Women in ICT Security Dr Angelika Plate

Career Opportunities for Women in ICT Security Dr Angelika Plate. Agenda. Information Security in UAE My background My view of the situation Technical vs Strategic What can be done Thoughts on the Future . Information Security in the UAE.

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Career Opportunities for Women in ICT Security Dr Angelika Plate

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  1. Career Opportunities for Women in ICT Security Dr Angelika Plate

  2. Agenda • Information Security in UAE • My background • My view of the situation • Technical vs Strategic • What can be done • Thoughts on the Future

  3. Information Security in the UAE • Demands for Information Security is increasing • Attacks like on ARAMCO, RAS GAS, etc. increase awareness that Information Security is needed • Cloud services raise a need for Information Security • International, UAE local and federalstandards and guidelines forInformation Security have beenissued

  4. My Background • PhD in Mathematics • Starting with Information Security because of lack of university opportunities • Starting in ISO/IECJTC1 SC 27 • Editor of many standards, incl.ISO/IEC 27001:2013 • Own company in Germany • Director in Help AG ME

  5. My View of the Situation • Demand for information security consultancy is very high, and constantly growing • There is a clear lack of local knowledge and companies, research, initiatives - all behind Europe • Several universities have good programmes, but • It takes time to produce the people needed • The programmes concentrate heavily on technical aspects

  6. Technical vs. Strategic • Information security consists of a lot of different aspects • Technical – protecting against hacking, code breaking, system intrusion, denial of service, … • Non-Technical – policies and procedures, social engineering, awareness training, compliance with standards, … • Both need to come together to achieve information security

  7. What can be done • More initiatives on non-technical topics, to achieve a better balance (university programmes, ISA) • Practical experience – internships, working as consultant, more involvement in the private sector • Understand the market need • Take activity to address it • Use your personal way to increase security by talking to people and make them see

  8. Thoughts on the Future • The interest in information security and standard compliance will increase • The security problems will surely increase • Amount of data and interconnectivity will increase • Cloud services will change the IT landscape • Far more opportunities to get involved

  9. Contact us help AG Middle East FZ LLC PO Box 500741 Arjaan Office Tower, 804 Dubai Internet City, Dubai, UAE T +971 4 440 5666 F +971 4 363 6742 help AG AD Information Systems PO Box 37195 Office 503, Floor 5Block 6, East 1-16 Salam HQ BldgT+971 2 659 4291 F +971 2 659 4146 help Consulting AG LLC P.O. Box 31316 Al Fardan Office Tower, 837 West Bay, Doha, Qatar T +974 44101 519 F +974 44101 759 Angelika.Plate@helpag.com +971 554144629 www.helpag.com

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