Speaker

Ahmed Nabil Mahmoud

Ahmed Nabil Mahmoud

Chief Information Security Officer | Microsoft MVP & Regional Director

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Nabil has more than 20 years of experience in the field of Information Security, Technology/Systems, Infrastructure, Project Management, Cyber Defense, Application Automation, Cloud Architecture, IT management and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft, CISCO, ISACA, ISC2, PMI, IAPP, CWNP, PECB, CSA and EC- Council.

Ahmed is an industry expert in Information Security and Digital Transformation, public speaker at several international conferences (Microsoft Ignite the Tour, ITCamp Cluj, CISO Africa Summit, GISEC UAE, Egypt CSCAMP, Cyber in Africa, Arab Security Camp, SAYA, SharePoint Saturdays, CloudWeekend, Credence, Global CISO Forum…..etc.) and author of several international published articles and a book on M365 Security technologies co-authored with other fellow MVPs.

Ahmed Nabil has a BS in Electrical and Control Engineering, MSc in Business Information Technology and Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Ahmed is currently the Head of Cyber Defense and Security Operations in a Leading bank, Prior to this Ahmed was the Corporate Chief Information Security Officer, Regional Security Manager and Chief Security Architect in multiple Organizations in Egypt, UAE and Middle East across different segments as Banks, Payment services, utilities, Oil and Gas organizations.

Ahmed was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award in Enterprise security/Cloud and Data Center Management for 11 years in row from 2013 to 2023 for his exceptional knowledge sharing and community leadership in Egypt and Middle East Region. Recently in July 2020 Ahmed was awarded the Microsoft Regional Director (RD) award as well.

Ahmed recently received the MESA CISO 100 Award from the MESA conference held in Dubai for the top CISO executives in the Middle East, CISO 50 Award, Arab CISO of the Year Award 2018, 2021, 2022 and was finalist in EC-COUNCIL CISO awards 2018 (Atlanta, US). Ahmed was recently selected as a member of the EC-Council CCISO advisory board due to his Industry standing and deep experience.

Twitter: @ITcalls_anabil
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmednabilmahmoud

Awards

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Information Security
  • InfoSec
  • Azure Information Protection
  • Azure Advanced Information Protection
  • information architecture
  • Information Management
  • Information Protection
  • Azure
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Cloud Computing on the Azure Platform
  • Azure Security
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Microsoft Office365
  • Office365
  • Office 365 ATP
  • Office 365 Security
  • Office 365 Identity
  • Windows Defender ATP
  • windows defender
  • Microsoft 365
  • Advanced Threat Analytics
  • Azure Advanced Threat Protection
  • Defender Advanced Threat Protection
  • M365
  • Azure Sentinel
  • Sentinel
  • SIEM
  • Office 365 for the IT Pro
  • Office 365 Threat Management

DefCamp Cluj-Napoca Sessionize Event Upcoming

May 2024 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

SPS Cairo 2021 Sessionize Event

February 2021

The North American Collaboration Summit 2020 Sessionize Event

September 2020 Branson, Missouri, United States

ITCamp 2019 Sessionize Event

June 2019 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Ahmed Nabil Mahmoud

Chief Information Security Officer | Microsoft MVP & Regional Director

Dubai, United Arab Emirates