JULY - 20238 IN MY OPINIONBY MOHAMAD MAHJOUB, CISO, VEOLIA MIDDLE EAST1. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MAJOR CHALLENGES AND TRENDS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTING THE ENTERPRISE SECURITY SPACE LATELY?It's my pleasure to speak to the enterprise security magazine. I have been the CISO of the Near and Middle East region for the past three years. Now with the acquisition of SUEZ's business in the area, IT and OT challenges are inevitable and opportunities are abound. My areas of expertise are IT/OT governance, data protection, cloud security, risk management, and application security. I have more than 17 years of experience in IT with a focus on Cyber Security. I am the author of the book "Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux Made Easy" which is published on Amazon, as well as many online Cyber Security courses some of which are sponsored by Packt and O'Reilly, that's on top of being an active YouTuber on ethical hacking topics.2.WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO SOME OF THE MAJOR PREDICAMENTS IN THE ENTERPRISE SECURITY SPACE?Everyone is fighting against a remarkable IT and OT threat landscape; Veolia Near and Middle East region is no different.As you may be aware, some threats identified in the diagram below have the potential to evolve into disruptive and destructive capabilities, particularly the supply chain and ransomware attacks. On top of that, ransomware gangs are an emerging constant threat due to the fact that they share methods, infrastructure (C&C), and techniques.Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has also emerged to be a common term where malicious ransomware packages are made available to other criminals, who can easily make use of them.STRENGTHENING ENTERPRISESECURITY
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