Commvault SHIFT Nairobi explores a new era of cyber resilience
"A new approach is needed. One that consolidates, streamlines, and gives CISOs and IT the upper hand."
Commvault Systems, the American cyber resilience and data protection software company, is running SHIFT, a global cyber resilience roadshow in 40 key business locations across the world. A recent edition of the roadshow took place in Nairobi on September 12 at the J.W. Marriott hotel with 430 confirmed attendees. The event, the first SHIFT event in central eastern Africa, was preceded by a grand VIP dinner on the evening of September 11.
According to Commvault, across many business sectors, we’ve reached an inflection point where the confluence of data, apps, and devices meets hybrid architectures and a new breed of threats, like ransomware, is now fuelled by the rise of ML and Generative AI. What’s needed, they say, is for businesses to SHIFT into a new era of cyber resilience.
According to the Commvault event information about SHIFT, “A new approach is needed. One that consolidates, streamlines, and gives CISOs and IT the upper hand. Fighting AI with AI. Delivering true native cloud data security. And the one way to truly defeat ransomware once and for all.”
SHIFT Nairobi was pitched at CIOs, CISOs and IT leaders, and aimed to explore how organizations could:
- Shift from just data recovery to true cyber resilience
- Maintain Minimum Viable Business (MVB) operations during and after cyberattacks
- Simplify and modernize your data security stack
- Give Real-world lessons in proactive threat defence and rapid recovery
The Nairobi event began with a welcome from Cristobal Macedo, General Manager – Commvault, who was followed by Fady Richmany – Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Emerging Markets – CEE, CIS and META – Commvault. Fady’s keynote address was called ‘The Big SHIFT: Reimagining Resilience for the Hybrid Enterprise.’
Expert speakers offered real world insights: Eddy Nseir, Regional SE Director – CEE, Africa & Levant – Commvault, spoke about ”The Inevitable Breach – A CxO’s Guide to Cyber Resilience” and David Mugo, Senior Solution Engineer – East Africa – Commvault presented ‘From Theory to Practice – The Resilient Enterprise in Action.’ Rasheed Ola Jimoh, Senior Director – Sub-Saharan Africa – Commvault, spoke about ‘The Financial Case for Being Cyber Resilient.’ A Q&A and a panel discussion followed.
Other speakers and panellists included Saul Wamalwa, Sales Manager – East Africa – Commvault, Hartnell Ndungi, Chief Data Officer – ABSA Bank, Geoffrey Gitagia, Group IT Manager a – Avenue Healthcare, Adam Nyaga, Chief Revenue Officer and Sushin Ek, Associate CTO, both from Platinum sponsors, Computech.
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000 organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest TCO.