Fortinet’s Ken Xie to Lead World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity Cyber Workforce Session at Upcoming Annual Meeting...
January 21 2019 - 9:00AM
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO,
Fortinet“We are proud to have been the first cybersecurity
company named a founding partner of the World Economic Forum Centre
for Cybersecurity. As a member of the Advisory Board, I look
forward to the opportunity to collaborate with global leaders from
the private and public sectors on our shared commitment to
collectively respond to the growing global cybersecurity threat.
The continued collaboration and effort also advances Fortinet’s
mission to secure the largest enterprise, service provider, and
government organizations in the world.”
News Summary:Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global
leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions
and the first cybersecurity company named a founding partner of the
World Economic Forum (WEF) Centre for Cybersecurity, announced
today that Ken Xie will serve as discussion leader for the Centre
for Cybersecurity Cyber Workforce session and participate in
leading a closed-door Cybersecurity Outlook 2019 briefing session
at the upcoming WEF Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
January 22 - 25.
Overview of Fortinet at WEF Annual MeetingXie
will be a part of the Fortinet delegation in Davos-Klosters where
he will participate and contribute to the global dialogue
surrounding the cybersecurity workforce of the future as well as
Globalization 4.0, a new phase of global cooperation as
transformations are changing how individuals, governments and
companies relate to each other and the world at large.
Session Details
- Title: Centre for Cybersecurity – Cyber Workforce
Session
- Discussion leader: Ken Xie, WEF Centre for Cybersecurity
Advisory Board member and Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO
at Fortinet
- When: January 22, 2019 at 17:30 GMT
- Where: WEF Annual Meeting, Congress Centre, Room: Centre Hub,
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
- Objective: To educate Davos participants on challenges related
to a lack of a strong and inclusive cybersecurity workforce and to
discuss and outline potential solutions to enable both training
opportunities and informed boardroom decisions to support the
initiative.
- Title: Centre for Cybersecurity – Cybersecurity Outlook
2019
- Panelist: Ken Xie, WEF Centre for Cybersecurity Advisory Board
member and Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO at Fortinet
- When: January 22, 2019
- Objective: Provide insights on the cybersecurity outlook for
2019 and discuss the Centre's latest developments and
activities.
More about the WEF Annual MeetingThe WEF Annual
Meeting is the only yearly gathering that brings together leaders
of global society. The heads and members of more than 100
governments, top executives of the 1,000 foremost global companies,
leaders of international organizations and relevant
non-governmental organizations, the most prominent cultural,
societal and thought leaders, and the disruptive voices of the
Forum’s Young Global Leaders, Global Shapers and Technology
Pioneers come together at the beginning of each year to define
priorities and shape global, industry and regional agendas.
Participation is by invitation only and reserved for members of the
Forum’s communities. The ongoing close collaboration with those
communities in cooperation with a Network of Global Future Councils
ensures the solution-oriented substance of the Annual Meeting.
Numerous initiatives of global importance have been launched in
Davos.
Additional Resources
- For more information about our participation in the World
Economic Forum and Centre for Cybersecurity, read our recent news
release and blog.
- Learn more about the WEF Centre for Cybersecurity.
- Read more about our Network Security Expert program, Network
Security Academy program or our FortiVets program.
- To follow along with the Annual Meeting, visit the WEF Davos
page.
- Read more about the Fortinet Security Fabric or the Third
Generation of Network Security.
- Read our blog about the latest Fortinet Global Threat Landscape
report or learn more about FortiGuard Labs and the FortiGuard
Security Services portfolio.
About FortinetFortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures
the largest enterprise, service provider, and government
organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers
with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack
surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance
requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future.
Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security
features without compromise to address the most critical security
challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile
environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances
shipped worldwide and more than 375,000 customers trust Fortinet to
protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com,
the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
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