Walid Mahmoud

Head of Cyber Security at IP Protocol

Walid has over 20 years of IT leadership, Information and Cyber Security experience in multinationals working on various complex IT and Security projects across MEA countries leveraging cutting-edge cloud security solutions while building, mentoring, and leading high-performing global teams. Walid has also participated in many international conferences and has always enjoyed sharing the wealth of information security expertise he continuously develops.

Some of the certifications and credentials that he possesses are CCISO, CISSP, MCSE, MCT, CCDA, ITIL v3 Master, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, GDPR Practitioner, Microsoft MVP 2008 – 2012, MSc. Management of Technology – Nile University, MBA– Florida State University.

In addition to Lecturing Cyber Security to Postgraduate Digital Transformation and MBA Students in Paris ESLSCA Business School, Walid is currently the Head of Cyber Security at IP Protocol Inc, a System Integrator and MSSP operating in MENA, focusing on building Secure Private Clouds, information and Cyber Security Systems for Financial sector.