Dr. Ahmed Rubaie

CEO

Anomali

Ahmed has more than three decades of global technology leadership experience. He has driven strategic expansion and diversification of businesses across markets, industries and customers, steering delivery of leading and differentiated solutions.

Speaker sessions

From Defense to Decision: Leading Security Transformation in the AI Era

As organizations embrace security transformation, businesses are entering a new era of AI-native economics. This transformation presents both a significant opportunity and a complex challenge for today’s security leaders. In this session, Anomali CEO Dr. Ahmed Rubaie shares how AI, automation, and intelligence are transforming security from a reactive cost center into a strategic engine that drives efficiency, resilience, and long term growth.This evolution does not come without challenges. As AI reshapes work, governance, and trust, enterprises must also defend against a new class of threats, requiring them to secure from AI, secure the AI, and secure with AI. Dr. Rubaie will explain how leaders can develop a “security enterprise brain”, a unified intelligence layer that integrates data, context, and autonomous decision making to detect, analyze and protect against threats.Finally, he emphasizes that no organization can navigate this shift alone. The balance between AI-native infrastructure and AI-enhanced enterprise value relies on deep collaboration to build intelligent and secure enterprises for the AI era.What You’ll Learn• Discover how AI-native economics is reshaping cybersecurity, shifting the value proposition from tools to outcomes and from reaction to autonomous resilience.• Learn how AI is redefining the enterprise security landscape and why leaders must adopt new security mindsets to protect from AI, the AI, and with AI, leveraging intelligence, automation, and governance to stay ahead of evolving risks.• Explore how collaboration across ecosystems will enable AI enhanced enterprises, integrating agentic intelligence and shared data to turn security into a competitive advantage.