Protect your organisation from present and future threats by aligning your security journey with the latest trends and strategies from top brands across Africa
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Jabu Mtsweni
Head: Cyber and Information Research Centre
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Ritasha Kalidas
Director: IT Security and Governance
Tiger Brands

Niel van Rooyen
Chief Information Security Officer & Principal Digital Infrastructure
Vedanta Resources Limited
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Sithembile Songo
Group Head: Information Security
Eskom Holdings

Philip Aiwekho
Chief Information Security Officer/DPO
NPF Microfinance Bank PLC

EXCITING FEATURES IN 2023
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A dedicated focus day that hones in on policy and strategy
- Solve shared problems with like-minded attendees in sessions that unpack topics critical to the industry through presentations, panel discussions and discussion groups
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Connect with attendees during and after the summit and build new collaborations through our interactive networking sessions
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Hear from Expert Speakers on how to ensure the effective protection of your key resources and systems
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Engage with solution providers on the newest tech products that are solving today's and tomorrow's cyber security threats
Topics we cover
Human Risk Management
Cybersecurity Protocols
Threat Detection and Analysis
Ransomware
Phishing
Cloud Security
Data Security
Risk Mitigation
Zero Trust
Emerging Security Tech
Threat Intelligence
Skills Gap
WHY ATTEND
Engage with leading executives in InfoSec from Africa’s top brands who will share insights into best practices for circumventing cyber threats. This event provides insights into the latest technology advancements to solve your business challenges as well as practical examples and case studies to accelerate your information security strategies.
The event will provide a platform for to learn from industry leaders, engage with peers and solution providers and address challenges that you may face in your organisation. We want to create a space that is more than just another talk shop, but rather provide tangible solutions and strategies for organisations.
Extraordinary Speakers
Discuss and share the latest in cybersecurity with our renowned security experts during interactive sessions that focus on key themes and topics in InfoSec.
Thought leaders from top organisations around Africa will share lessons learnt, best practices, challenges encountered and how best to circumvent them.
Speakers will share insights into the latest trends in topics such as data security, ransomware, the role of artificial intelligence in security and much more.
Discover Emerging Trends
New threats – and innovative ways to combat them – emerge all the time. In this age of accelerated digital transformation, cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to target and cause harm to organizations, which means there are consistently new trends and solutions in the market.
Have a front row seat to leading solution providers and innovators to talk you through the latest trends in cybersecurity.
Expand Your Network
Meet with industry peers from across the continent, connect, and continue your conversations long after the event ends.
With dedicated networking breaks, you will be able to engage with experts, industry leading CISOs and peers.
Share ideas, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve challenges with others in similar roles or from similar organisations.
Who Should Attend
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Information Officer: Client Coverage and Fraud
- Chief security officer
- Chief Risk officer
- Director: Information Systems and technology
- Director: Group IT- GRC & Strategy
- Group head of Information Security
- Head of Cyber security
- Head of Governance Risk and
Compliance - Head: IT Security
- Governance Compliance and Risk Manager
- Cyber Security Team Lead
Join The Discussion
- 60+ speakers
- Leading CISOs
- Interactive panel and group discussions
- 8+ hours of networking
- Access to presentations and slides
- Discover technology shaping the future
Downloads
View the conference brochure and all the information you need to convince your boss that attending the event will help future-proof your business.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT OUR EVENTS

"The CISO Africa conference was well represented by a number of leading CISO peers. The opportunity to gain knowledge from industry experts and peers, the round table discussions and networking opportunities makes this a worthwhile investment of time.
As a CIO, I left with a greater understanding of the challenges of CISOs and increased knowledge on a number of topics."

"The content for each agenda was very apt and appropriate for the audience. Well done for a great show, the sponsors, exhibitors and attendees provide valuable insight. "

“The networking aspect of the conference and catching up with ex-colleagues and friends which I have not seen in a while and seeing what others in similar roles are doing, what the latest issues being experienced are and in some cases learning how others are attempting to overcome issues being faced.”

"The agenda recognised the value of Information Security and the CISO role within organisations and the facilitated discussions provided a platform for peers to share industry experiences and lessons learnt. I found the vendor sessions and exhibitions provided detailed information about their offerings."

“Great venue, great speakers and perfect mix of topics.”

“The focus on GRC was good. A risk based approach is required to minimise the threats and vulnerabilities.”
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Event Organiser /
Caroline Mubima
Senior Conference Producer
Our events are all carefully created from scratch. The whole process from research to post-production is crafted by our team, so we are always available to assist with any queries! We look forward to meeting you at the event!
CONFIRMED PARTNERS
Arctic Wolf
Arctic Wolf® is the market leader in security operations. Using the cloud-native Arctic Wolf® Platform, we help organizations end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service.
Highly-trained Concierge Security® experts work as an extension of internal teams to provide 24x7 monitoring, detection and response, as well as ongoing risk management and security awareness training to give organizations the protection, resilience and guidance they need to defend against cyber threats.
Visit websitePalo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate.
Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence,analytics, automation, and orchestration.
By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com
Visit websiteOneTrust
As society redefines risk and opportunity, OneTrust empowers tomorrow’s leaders to succeed through trust and impact with the Trust Intelligence Platform.
The market-defining Trust Intelligence Platform from OneTrust connects privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes, so all companies can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture by unlocking their value and potential to thrive by doing what’s good for people and the planet.
Visit websiteSonatype
Sonatype is the leader in developer-friendly, full-spectrum software supply chain management providing organizations total control of their cloud-native development lifecycles, including third-party open source code, first-party source code, infrastructure as code, and containerized code.
The company supports 70% of the Fortune 100 and its commercial and open source tools are trusted by 15 million developers around the world. With a vision to transform the way the world innovates, Sonatype helps organizations of all sizes build higher quality software that's more aligned with business needs, more maintainable, and more secure.
Sonatype has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in the world, two years in a row and has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 5000 list for the past five years. For more information, please visit www.sonatype.com
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9TH BIT Consulting assists businesses across Africa to leverage their existing systems, maximise IT investments and ease the modernisation of legacy systems to current technologies.
With new technologies that are created by vendors and accepted by IT organisations, 9TH BIT helps to relieve growing pressure on the viability and maintenance of older technologies and applications built upon them, whilst integrating newer technologies when needed through DevOps & Continuous Delivery, Big Data & Data Ingestion as well as the evolving Middleware landscape.
Visit websiteForecepoint
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint creates safe, trusted environments for customers and their employees in more than 150 countries. Engage with Forcepoint on www.forcepoint.com, Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit websiteFortinet
Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey.
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Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 635,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.
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Maxtec are distributors of market leading data security technologies that are trusted around the globe.
We empower our South African and SADC IT Partners with best-in-class solutions and support services to enhance their network security offerings and secure their customers’ data. We pride ourselves on being the trusted adviser, a true solutions provider, valued for our opinion. We take a wider view of a customer’s needs and how they will be changing in the future.
Varonis
Varonis is a pioneer in data security and analytics, specialising in software for data protection, threat detection and response, and compliance.
Varonis protects enterprise data by analysing data activity, perimeter telemetry, and user behavior; prevents disaster by locking down sensitive data; and efficiently sustains a secure state with automation.
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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Its solutions protect customers from cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks.
Check Point offers a multilevel security architecture that defends enterprises’ cloud, network and mobile device held information, plus the most comprehensive and intuitive one point of control security management system. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.
Visit websiteOzone is a dynamic IT company that was taken over in 2009 and rebranded. We are a trusted cyber security distributor within South Africa and into Africa.
We service skilled resellers with clients that range from banks, insurance houses and the public sector, and we work with international and local corporates helping them to meet their cyber security needs.
It is our vision to create a distribution channel model for the IT Service Provider and Partners to easily select, buy and implement solutions from a single point of contact.
Visit websiteRubrik
Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organisations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions.
Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organisations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked.
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About Solid8 Technologies
Solid8 Technologies is a value-adding distributor bringing the best of global Cyber Security software Vendors and expertise that solve important security challenges and increase cyber resilience across domains of data security, identity governance, network security, OT Security and threat intelligence.
Skybox Security
Over 500 of the largest and most security-conscious enterprises in the world rely on Skybox® Security for the insights and assurance required to stay ahead of dynamically changing attack surfaces.
At Skybox, we don’t just serve up data and information. We provide the intelligence and context to make informed decisions, taking the guesswork out of securely enabling enterprises at scale and speed.
Our security posture management platform delivers complete visibility, analytics, and automation to quickly map, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities across your organization. The vendor-agnostic platform intelligently optimizes security policies, actions, and change processes across all corporate networks and cloud environments.
With Skybox, security teams can now focus on the most strategic business initiatives while ensuring enterprises remain protected.
Visit websiteSANS Institute
SANS Institute is the world’s leading provider of cybersecurity training. For more than twenty-five years, SANS has provided cutting edge training to governments and organizations across the world.
Technology may have changed in that time, but our core mission has remained constant: to protect through sharing cybersecurity knowledge and skills.
SANS offers more than 70 cybersecurity courses, has more than 147,000 learners across 200+ countries and 15 million employees protecting their organization with SANS Security Awareness Training.
Visit websiteTrinexia South Africa is an industry-leading, Cyber Security Technology Distributor, backed by globally recognised international vendors. Our Company founders are all IT industry veterans.
The network that we have developed over the years, in terms of people, relationships as well as the trust we have earned in the industry, sets Trinexia South Africa apart from other organizations.
Visit: www.trinexia.com or https://trinexia.com/south-africa/
Visit websiteZeroFox
With a global data collection engine, artificial intelligence-based analysis and automated remediation, the ZeroFox Platform protects your critical digital assets and data from digital threats at the scale and speed of the internet.
The console delivers proactive intelligence to disrupt phishing, impersonations, malicious domains and data leakage across the public, deep and dark web.
ZeroFox instantly alerts security teams and authorities at the first sign of attack and automatically takes swift actions ranging from taking down malicious content, to dismantling attacker infrastructure. www.zerofox.com
Visit websiteCyberArk
CyberArk is the global leader in Identity Security. Cantered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle.
CyberArk is the only security company laser-focused on striking down targeted cyber threats, those that make their way inside to attack the heart of the enterprise.
Dedicated to stopping attacks before they stop business, CyberArk is trusted by the world's leading companies — including more than 50% of the Fortune 500 — to protect their highest-value information assets, infrastructure and applications. www.cyberark.com
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Intelligent CISO is a technology intelligence platform aimed at the enterprise sector looking for updates and research driven data about cybersecurity. As part of Lynchpin Media, this digital medium gives unparalleled advice to the global community.
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