Speaker Bio

Former Deputy managing director & Head of Incident Response & Cyber forensics Dept. at Egyptian Computer Emergency Readiness Team EG-CERT, National Telecom Regulatory Authority NTRA. Ahmed has more than 24 years experience in Cybersecurity, his main role was to manage the Egyptian cyber incident response department within the scope of Egypt. In addition, Ahmed was recognized as the chair of technical secretary of the Egyptian cybersecurity supreme council. Nowadays, Ahmed is the chief director of cybersecurity at the well-known company and one of the most critical national telecom infrastructures, Telecom Egypt, starting his new journey with this one-of-a-kind telecommunications company.
His field of expertise is oriented towards reactive and proactive measures to counter information security compromises, including collation, analysis and dissemination of vulnerability and threat information, reactive measures post-compromise, including practical response to system/network attack, security Assessments for Governmental, Telecommunication, Financial and Educational Agencies, in addition Ahmed was leading the the activities to develop Egypt’s national cybersecurity strategy 2023-2027. Ahmed was leading the handling process for different types of incidents such as Phishing, web defacements, harassment, malware spreading, etc. He also was leading cases on national and international scope for instance Phish Phry “Operation targeted U.S. banks and victimized hundreds and possibly thousands of account holders by stealing their financial information and using it to transfer about $1.5 million to bogus accounts they controlled”, also #OpEgypt by Anonymous hacktivist group the operation was a large scale DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against all the governmental websites within Egypt.
Before that, he worked at the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, MCIT, as Network & Information security planning manager, his main responsibilities were design and planning of network security solutions among the Egyptian government entities.
Ahmed has many several national & international level experiences as he represented EG-CERT in many international events for example, but not limited to; in 2011 and in cooperation with COMESA and Sudan CERT, also he delivered a CERT creations hands-on presentation in Cairo. Ahmed has attended way more conferences, cyber drills and many more across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, USA and the Arab nation.
Before that, he worked at the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, MCIT, as Network & Information security planning manager, his main responsibilities were design and planning of network security solutions among the Egyptian government entities.
Ahmed has many several national & international level experiences as he represented EG-CERT in many international events for example, but not limited to; in 2011 and in cooperation with COMESA and Sudan CERT, also he delivered a CERT creations hands-on presentation in Cairo. Ahmed has attended way more conferences, cyber drills and many more across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, USA and the Arab nation.