Mr. Haider Pasha is Chief Technology Officer for Emerging Markets at Symantec. Since joining Symantec in February 2014, Mr. Pasha has been partnering with CxOs across the region, executing together on a multi-year architecture strategy for the geography such as Cloud, IoT, Big Data, and BYOD. He is a trusted advisor to Symantec’s strategic customers and partners, helping them become more competitive and innovative while influencing and strategically guiding them in addressing security issues.
Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Pasha spent 14 years at Cisco Systems covering various senior positions, initially based in Silicon Valley, California and more recently as CTO for Cisco Africa. Mr. Pasha has extensive security expertise, initially working with customers such as Google, eBay, Yahoo, and later with financials such as Visa, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. After moving to Dubai in 2007, Mr. Pasha used his experience and technical expertise to help secure some of the most important data centers in our industry. Using his sales, technical, and business management experience, he is balancing Symantec’s technical growth for the region, aligning closely with the channel while building team leadership and strategic customer engagement.
Mr. Pasha completed his MBA from Manchester Business School, UK and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA. Over the course of his 15 year IT career, Mr. Pasha has held various certifications, including CCNP, CCSP, CISSP, and CEH. Mr. Pasha’s successes come from being able to bind advanced technical concepts to commercial, people and process requirements, while maintaining a balanced perspective with the business objective in mind. He is also Symantec’s go-to public Security spokesperson in the region.
Title of presentation: Common Practices to Reduce Risk in IoT Deployments
The session starts by describing the challenges businesses are facing today with IoT. It then breaks down specific case studies in Automobiles, Utilities, Healthcare, etc. in order to highlight the challenges those deployments face with IoT and how Symantec helps address those challenges. We close with a summary of cyber security best practices that should be deployed for a secure IoT solution.
