Speaker Bio

Omar Sherin Holds a BSc. In computer engineering and with 16 years of cyber security experience specialized in Critical infrastructure protection. He is currently working on CNIs and OT cyber security covering Middle East, Africa and India.

Omar is an elected voting member in the ISA99/IEC62443 standard for industrial control systems security, the highest committee in the standard. Omar is also an international member of the ICSJWG created by the US-DHS, He also lead the National level Critical Infrastructure Information Protection program in a GCC country conducting tens of ICS/OT assessments and working on national level security programs, he also developed National Security standards for several middle eastern countries. Omar was part of the team that developed the world cup cybersecurity framework for Qatar’s world cup 2022, Omar is a certified GICSP, CBCP, GRISC, CERT-IH and a SANS institute ICS Mentor.