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Show dates: 2-4 December 2025, Riyadh Exhibition & Convention Center, Malham, Saudi Arabia Exhibition hours: 11AM - 8PM
Seclore strengthens commitment to Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation agenda FROM SOVEREIGN CLOUD TO AI ADOPTION, JUSTIN ENDRES DETAILS HOW SECLORE’S PLATFORM SUPPORTS VISION 2030 PRIORITIES AND ELEVATES REGIONAL DATA RESILIENCE. Digital acceleration across the Middle East and Africa is redefining how governments and enterprises safeguard their most valuable asset: data. With AI adoption rising, cloud ecosystems expanding, and national digital strategies advancing at unprecedented scale, organisations are demanding smarter, more predictive, and more unified approaches to data security. The shift toward data-centric defence is no longer optional — it is foundational to building resilient, future-ready digital economies. Within this landscape, Seclore is emerging as a key enabler of intelligent data protection, offering enterprises and publicsector entities the ability to understand, govern, and secure data across
complex, fast-moving environments. Speaking to Daniel Sheperd, Online Editor, Tahawultech. com, at Black Hat MEA 2025, Justin Endres, Chief Revenue Officer, shared insights into the company’s vision for the MEA region, the evolution of its security framework, and how Seclore’s strategy aligns with Saudi Arabia’s national priorities. Endres also highlighted the strategic importance of Black Hat MEA as a platform for customer engagement, collaboration, and innovation. What is Seclore’s vision for the Middle East and Africa region, and which additional geographies are you targeting for expansion? Our vision is simple yet
ambitious: to become the global data-centric security backbone for enterprises and governments worldwide. In the Middle East and Africa, organisations are accelerating digital transformation, cloud adoption, and AI integration. This creates an urgent need for stronger, intelligencedriven data protection. We see MEA not just as a growth region, but as a strategic landscape where governments and enterprises are moving fast toward AI-enabled economies. Beyond the region, we are expanding across global markets where data sovereignty, cloud proliferation, and regulatory expectations demand a more advanced model of data security. Seclore aims to be the
platform that protects this next generation of digital ecosystems — wherever the data travels. Could you elaborate on your new security framework and the core
problems it aims to address? We’re introducing a powerful evolution of our data-centric security platform by adding an intelligence and predictive
analytics layer on top of our existing controls. The new framework addresses three core challenges: 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Black Hat MEA surges through day two as Capture the Flag competition takes centre stage RIYADH DRIVES THE GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY CONVERSATION WITH BREAKTHROUGH EXPLOITS, HANDS-ON SIMULATIONS AND HIGH-PRESSURE INTELLIGENCE AT BLACK HAT MEA. Black Hat MEA lit up Riyadh again for day two, pulling the global cybersecurity community deeper into the core questions shaping 2026. Thousands of specialists, founders, CISOs and researchers were in attendance to discuss the next trends in cybersecurity. Across the Executive Summit, Briefings and Deep Dive stages, the conversations cut straight into the realities of the current threat horizon: attack surfaces that shift by the minute, AI systems that influence the decision cycle, supply chains that create hidden dependencies and identity layers constantly pushed to breaking point.
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Anne Marie Zettlemoyer of the National Security Institute delivered one of the morning’s most urgent sessions. “The systems we defend and the speed at which we defend them have changed more in the past couple of years than in the previous twenty” she said, stressing that AI has shifted from emerging idea to “our next critical infrastructure.” She closed with a clear challenge. “Black Hat is not just a conference, it is a gathering of the most capable strategic and powerful minds anywhere in the world. If anyone can define responsible AI security, it is this community.” Charles Forte, Director
General and CIO at the UK Ministry of Defence, used a ‘Surfing the Digital Tsunami’ analogy to break down what effective leadership looks like when attack surfaces expand faster than defenders
can map them. He told attendees that “being good at digital defines winning and losing” and outlined three priorities for any organised response: discipline in process, new investment
in AI era defence and equal scrutiny on the supply chain as in internal systems. The focus then moved to career impact with a session named Mastering the CISO Maturity Model,
led by Derek Cheng, CISO at Deliveroo. Cheng mapped out the real benchmarks for modern security leadership. He explored how CISOs measure influence, scale governance, and evolve from technical operators into high-impact decisionmakers who shape risk agendas at board level. The Ship Spoofing simulation quickly became one of day two’s biggest draws. Before stepping into the live environment, participants were briefed on the fundamentals: how navigation systems on modern vessels can be manipulated by corrupted data streams and how
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