Speaker Bio
Mr. Ayman Al Issa
Chief Technologist & Senior Advisor in Industrial Cyber Security, Booz Allen Hamilton
Ayman has over 22 years of experience in the fields of Automation, Information Technology, and Cyber Security. He has graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering in 1992 and verse in different backgrounds like industrial control systems, systems engineering, and building cyber security strategies and models. He is a member in the Cyber Security Advisory boards of top rated worldwide universities for the advancement of researches on industrial cyber security. He is an active member in different international Security Innovation Alliances that are focused in a worldwide program for improving the security of industrial control systems by the close collaboration of the leading IT Security vendors and leading industrial control system vendors. He is also information contributor to the ISA99/IEC62443 Industrial Automation and Control Systems Cyber Security Standards, and he is currently leading workgroup 1 in the standard. Realizing that security measures are always behind the emerging cyber risks, he developed an ICS defense-in-depth industrial cyber security model that aims to early detection of threats based on security-through-vision-and-integration. Ayman worked for ADMA-OPCO for 17 years and he was the Digital Oil Fields Cyber Security Advisor. He joined Booz Allen Hamilton on 2014 as the Chief Technologist & Senior Advisor in Industrial Cyber Security.