GISEC Global, the region''s largest cybersecurity event, runs 16–18 September 2026 at Expo City Dubai, bringing together government agencies, critical infrastructure operators and international security vendors.
This year''s agenda is built around three pressures: quantum threats to current encryption, AI-driven attack and defence tooling, and the resilience of critical and cloud infrastructure. Organisers are staging a Global Quantum Drill to test how institutions would respond to cryptographic exposure.
The commercial backdrop is heavy spending: conference material points to global security spending passing $240 billion in 2026, with ransomware still behind close to a third of breaches and attacks on small and mid-size firms rising.
For UAE organisations the practical questions raised at the show are concrete — inventory of encryption in use, migration planning towards post-quantum standards, and third-party risk in cloud supply chains.
GISEC has become the region''s main public-private meeting point on cyber policy, which is why national agencies use it to publish guidance and partnerships rather than only exhibit.