Adel Alzubeir
Founder & General Manager
Leira Arabia
Tech innovator and multi-award-winning executive with 15+ years of impact. Creator of Lockfy, committed to building technologies that empower and protect lives.
Speaker sessions
Overlooked & Overridden: Mitigating Risks from Unlocked Sessions to Unmanaged Local Assets
3 main risk areas that cybersecurity teams are probably numb to.1) Idle and unlocked sessions, where GPO fails to lock it due to overrides (like a youtube video, or video ad in browser, music playing, presenting to a projector....etc).We have all seen it almost everywhere. You go to a hospital, and computers left right, and center are unlocked, with no one attending to the session. Statistics say GPO fails at least once a day per employee due to GPO lock policy overrides. And current tools are failing short.How to protect, secure and manage those sessions, without giving up user convenience while maintaining a tight grip over securing those sessions.2) Forgotten Browser Extensions.In July, 2025, over 200 browser extensions were discovered to be part of a webscraping botnet. Do you have one installed in your organization? How to always on top of it?3) Unmanaged/poorly managed local administration accounts.Local administrator is a god send when things go wrong. But it's password is either static where the entire organization uses it, or it is a scheduled randomization based on expiry which is usually a long window of password reuse attack. Our current tools fail to protect us, and we need to be careful to avoid data spills.
- 16:00
- Tue
- 02 Dec
Stage:
Briefings 2
Sessions Type:
Presentation