FTNT - Media Advisory: Fortinet Returns to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to Offer Cybersecurity Insights | Benzinga
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO at Fortinet
"As cybersecurity challenges emerge at an unprecedented pace, public-private partnerships play an increasingly important role in effectively mitigating cyberthreats and bolstering our collective cyber resilience. The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting brings together global leaders to engage in open and constructive dialogue and collaborate on solutions to solve critical cybersecurity challenges, offering a unique opportunity to affect real advancements for global societies."
News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ:FTNT), the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, today announced that the company will rejoin global leaders and experts at the upcoming World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from January 15 to 19, 2024. Fortinet, a founding member of the Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity and recent contributor to the Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity in Geneva, will again engage in the yearly event, which brings together the leaders of government, business, and civil society in search of solutions to critical global challenges.
Ken Xie, Fortinet Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO, will offer strategic insights to the Cybersecurity Futures 2030 session on January 17 (more details below). Ken is an American cybersecurity innovator, entrepreneur, and graduate of Stanford University, and Fortinet is the third successful business that he has founded, along with creating thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investment across the United States. Currently, Ken is a board member of the Cyber Threat Alliance and the Center for Cybersecurity for the World Economic Forum.
Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global Vice President of Threat Intelligence, will share expertise and insights into the ransomware epidemic as part of a panel on January 18 (more details below), where he will offer preparation guidance to participating leaders. In addition to his active role in the Forum and its Centre for Cybersecurity's Partnership against Cybercrime and Cybercrime Atlas initiative, Derek is actively involved with several global threat intelligence initiatives, including NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, the Cyber Threat Alliance working committee and FIRST, all in effort to shape the future of actionable threat intelligence and proactive security strategy.
Session Details
Title: Cybersecurity Futures 2030
When: Wednesday, Jan. 17, 11:30 a.m.–noon CET
Where: Fusion, Congress Centre, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
Overview: A proliferation of inexpensive tools available to cybercriminals, advances in value transfer and identification, supply chain frictions and fractures in global internet governance means that by 2030 ...