Mirza Asrar Baig

Mirza Asrar Baig is a serial entrepreneur, business-builder, heading the first and only Cybersecurity research & development tech company in the Arab world. He is best recognized as the founder and CEO of CTM360 (Bahrain), a Cyber Threat Management company and IT Matrix (Saudi), an Information Security company. Additionally, Mirza is also the founder of EDX Labs, a technology R&D hub, DMARC360, an email security intelligence platform, PENTEST360, a cloud-based penetration testing platform and MG360, for merchant onboarding, security compliance, and training. Mirza is a Computer Science graduate from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM - Dhahran, Saudi Arabia). He holds a passion for research and innovation in the GCC and has served the Information Security / Cybersecurity requirements of the GCC Financial Sector for over 20+ years. During this time, he has also contributed to the region via speaking engagements and providing insights into threats specific to GCC organizations. Mirza has also partnered with the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance(BIBF) to provide Cybersecurity Board Briefing sessions for Board members and C-level executives.

The failing approach of managing cybersecurity

Mirza Asrar Baig

July 31, 2020

To address this current losing war with cyberattackers, the future of cybersecurity requires augmenting the current focus of “indicators of compromise” with “indicators of exposure & warning” in real-time. Where the measure would be to gauge the shift of incident management that would tilt on managing more incidents at warning stages than on compromise stages. It is imperative to build an AI engine to perform this very task as that would be the only way to perform in real-time, scale with the growing nature of cloud as well as to cover the evolving nature to attack scenarios.

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The failing approach of managing cybersecurity

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