From 6-8 Might, 25,000+ cybersecurity consultants will collect on the Center East and Africa’s largest cybersecurity occasion to safe the area’s digital future towards deepfake scams and important infrastructure vulnerabilities

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, third Might 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, With AI-driven cybercrime and ransomware assaults surging globally, GISEC World 2025 returns to Dubai from Might 6 – 8, bringing collectively the world’s foremost leaders, innovators, and visionaries in a high-stakes effort to safe our digital future. 

GISEC World transforms Dubai World Commerce Centre into the epicentre of cybersecurity, uniting 450+ CISOs, 25,000 professionals from 160 nations, and 750+ manufacturers—from tech giants like AWS, Huawei, and Microsoft to progressive startups—for MEA’s most pivotal cyber occasion beneath the theme ‘Securing an AI-Powered Future.’ The 12 months 2025 has been declared because the ‘Year of Community’ by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, calling for collective motion in constructing a linked and empowered society by AI and entrepreneurship. GISEC World is strengthening the worldwide cybersecurity neighborhood by fostering collaboration between governments, enterprises, and consultants to safe our digital tomorrow.

The 14th version brings collectively crucial focus areas from a few of the main gamers within the trade, together with Huawei, AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud Safety, CISCO, Deloitte, Kaspersky, Examine Level, Cloudflare and Honeywell, alongside groundbreaking cybersecurity corporations corresponding to Spire Options, CPX, CyberKnight, LinkShadow, OPSWAT, Qualys, CrowdStrike, StrikeReady, and Dream Group.

The three-day occasion will reinforce the UAE’s place as a world chief in AI innovation and accountable AI deployment within the face of menace actors, mixing international experience with regional priorities, and with a robust emphasis on public-private collaboration, innovation, and expertise growth.

These priorities come at a crucial juncture. The World Financial Discussion board’s World Safety Outlook 2025 report, revealed forward of GISEC World 2025, has proven that:

• 66% of organisations view AI as a game-changer in cybersecurity.
• Practically half (47%) warn that generative AI is concurrently arming hackers with scalable new assault vectors
• Nevertheless, solely 14% of organisations really feel confidently geared up to reply

These key insights spotlight how briskly the worldwide cybersecurity market is altering – an ever-growing financial sector that’s anticipated to achieve $298.5 billion by 2028, based on Markets and Markets – a big soar from the $190.4 billion in 2023. 

Nowhere is that this urgency extra obvious than within the Center East, the place 45% of organisations rank cyber threat mitigation as their prime operational precedence (PWC’s 2024 World Digital Belief Insights survey). Because the area accelerates its digital transformation, GISEC World 2025 arrives at a pivotal second to form its safe future.

The 2025 version introduces groundbreaking new options:

Subsequent-Gen Cyber Warriors Competitors: The Scholar Hackathon transforms school rooms into cyber defence labs, the place younger expertise tackles real-world situations in community safety, menace analysis, and incident response.

Important Infrastructure Programme: The launch of OT Safety Convention Observe addresses the rising convergence of IT and operational know-how, providing actionable methods to guard important methods from rising vulnerabilities.

Africa Cyber Resilience Initiative: Because the continent’s digital financial system expands, GISEC launches devoted roundtables with CISOs and nationwide authorities to construct continent-wide defences.

GISEC AI: Discover polymorphic malware, adversarial AI, and deepfake scams. This 12 months’s largest AI in cybersecurity showcase will function urgent subjects together with polymorphic malware, adverbial AI, deepfake scams and Gen AI tech.

Launch of GISEC North Star: Cyber71, in strategic partnership with GISEC GLOBAL, will launch a collection of high-impact initiatives on the area’s largest platform for progressive cybersecurity startups. It’ll present a dynamic area for cybersecurity startups to community, entice funding and scale their companies.

Dubai Cyber Problem: Premiering at GISEC World, Organised by DESC, an unique ‘Capture the Flag’ competitors shall be held for Dubai authorities entities as groups go face to face throughout two days, specializing in totally different traits corresponding to net safety, reverse engineering and digital forensics by varied challenges.

Dubai’s internet hosting of GISEC World 2025 cements the UAE’s place because the world’s cybersecurity chief, just lately topped #1 within the World Cybersecurity Index 2024. The occasion serves as each a showcase of the nation’s safety achievements and a name to motion for worldwide collaboration in our interconnected digital future.

H.E. Dr Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti, Head of the UAE Cybersecurity Council, stated: “GISEC Global comes at a critical time as cyber threats grow more prevalent and sophisticated,” says HE Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, Head of the UAE Cybersecurity Council. “In this ‘Year of Community,’ our partnership with GISEC underscores the UAE’s commitment to uniting global stakeholders in addressing urgent cybersecurity challenges—from safeguarding data privacy and securing critical networks to countering advanced threats through AI-powered solutions. Through initiatives like the world’s largest Global Cyber Drill and strategic collaborations at GISEC, we are turning the UAE’s cybersecurity vision into action, ensuring a resilient digital future for all.”

H.E. Yousuf Al Shaibani, Director Basic of Dubai Digital Safety Heart (DESC), stated: “Dubai’s rapid digital transformation is redefining the way we live, work, and connect, making cybersecurity more critical than ever. GISEC Global 2025 stands as a pivotal gathering where global experts converge to address emerging threats and pioneer the next generation of cyber resilience. At DESC, we are steadfast in our mission to safeguard Dubai’s digital ecosystem by fostering collaboration, driving innovation, and implementing robust cyber defences. Our participation in GISEC reflects our commitment to shaping global cybersecurity discourse, sharing expertise, and ensuring that Dubai remains at the forefront of secure and intelligent digital progress.”

Trixie LohMirmand, EVP of Dubai World Commerce Centre, GISEC World organiser, stated: “Every year, the cybersecurity industry is dealing with new threats and opportunities with GISEC Global at the heart of driving impactful discussions and action from the worldwide ecosystem. This year will be no different as we bring the best minds together once again to Dubai World Trade Centre to explore ways to not only manage cyber risks effectively, which can have far-reaching implications if not dealt with adequately, but also build a safe future that will not impact our economies.” 

Sean Yang, World Cybersecurity and Privateness Safety Officer of Huawei, Lead Strategic Companion of GISEC World, stated: “We are delighted to be extending our long-term partnership with GISEC Global by becoming its Lead Strategic Partner for the 2025 edition. Huawei is committed to securing our shared digital future with governments, industry organisations, standardisation bodies, and enterprise stakeholders. Through such partnerships, we aim to be a reliable partner in the digital and intelligent world and provide our customers with competitive and secure product solutions. GISEC Global is a leading platform to exchange ideas and expertise, as well as collaborate in building a trustworthy digital environment of various partners that can address the challenges of today and tomorrow.”

GISEC World 2025 is hosted by the UAE Cybersecurity Council, and supported by Dubai Digital Safety Heart (DESC), UAE Ministry of Inside and Dubai Police.

To be taught extra about GISEC World 2025, go to www.gisec.ae. 

About GISEC World

GISEC World, Center East & Africa’s largest and most impactful cybersecurity occasion, will return to Dubai World Commerce Centre for its 14th version going down from sixth to eighth Might 2025, beneath the overarching theme of “Securing an AI-Powered Future.” Following the monumental success of 2024, the super-connector occasion for the area’s cybersecurity trade will deliver collectively over 25,000 attendees, 750 exhibiting manufacturers and 350-plus audio system hailing from over 160 nations. GISEC World stands because the unrivalled platform for navigating the ever-evolving panorama of cybersecurity. Extra data: www.gisec.ae

About Dubai World Commerce Centre

With a imaginative and prescient to make Dubai the world’s main vacation spot for all main exhibitions, conferences and occasions, DWTC has advanced from being the regional forerunner of the fast-growing MICE trade right into a multi-dimensional enterprise catalyst, specializing in Venues, Occasions and Actual Property Administration. Complementary to the first service choices are a spread of value-added companies from media/promoting, engineering and technical session and marriage ceremony planning, safety, and hospitality. 

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