Yahya Alazri | Cybersecurity Consultant
Ministry of Transport, Communication & Information Technology

Former Director of Oman National PKI holding a Master of Science in Information Systems from Sultan Qaboos University with 17 years of experience in cybersecurity, information security and risk management, digital identity and trust services, digital transformation, Data Mining and Business Intelligence, System Analysis and Design, Information Technology Policy and Strategy, and IT project management. Yahya was a team-lead in the e-government readiness assessment in 2013. Along with the cybersecurity consultancy, Yahya is the project manager of the new national PKI project in Oman. Yahya had the honor to receive an international prize for Oman National PKI by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Switzerland, 2016. He presented Oman National PKI project in the European Experts Meeting on Mobile ID 2016 in Poland. In addition, Yahya participated as:

• A keynote speaker in the PKI Arab Forum 2014, Tunisia
• A keynote speaker in the GCC e-Government Conference 2015, Bahrain
• A speaker in ITU GSR’18, Switzerland
• A speaker in ITU Telecom World 2018, South Africa
• A speaker in the eID Forum 2019, Estonia
• A keynote speaker and panel moderator and in Seamless ME 2022, Dubai
• A keynote speaker and panel moderator in InterSec Cybersecurity Conference 2023, Dubai
• A keynote speaker and panel moderator in Seamless ME 2023, Dubai
• A keynote speaker and panel moderator in InterSec Future Security Summit 2023, Riyadh

In addition, Yahya provided several academic lectures in cybersecurity and project management in Sultan Qaboos University and delivered several keynote presentations in different conferences in Oman.