• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Taher Elgamal

Salesforce

Chief Technology Officer, Security

Taher Elgamal, Chief Technology Officer of Security, Salesforce, is an industry veteran in internet security. He is the inventor of the Elgamal digital signature scheme, which is the basis for digital signature algorithm (DSA). While serving as Chief Scientist of Netscape Communications, he was the driving force behind secure socket layer (SSL) Mr. Elgamal was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Securify, and was the Director of Engineering at RSA Security Inc. prior to Joining Netscape in 1995 and founding Securify in 1998. Mr. Elgamal has served and is serving on many public and private boards. He also served and is serving on advisory boards of many security and software companies. Mr. Elgamal was the recipient of the 2009 RSA Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Elgamal holds a BS from Cairo University, as well as MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University.

Sessions With Taher Elgamal

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 10:30am - 11:15am (CST) / -

    Energy Infrastructure: How vulnerable to cyber attack?
    Panel Technology/Innovation Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics

    Headlines alert us to the risks of aging energy infrastructure across North America, and enormous vulnerability to cyber-attacks, both state-sponsored and individual. How likely are those attacks to really happen, and what will be the damage? What are the new sources ofcyber risk and the state of the art responses to mitigate these? Are there good short- and long-term solutions to the cybersecurity problem?

Thursday, 14 March