Amin Hasbini

About

AI and Cybersecurity Executive. Ex-Director of Kaspersky GReAT’s META research center (Middle East, Turkey, and Africa) (12 years). Expert contributor to the French Senate’s OPECST report on AI (2024). PhD in Information Security for Smart Cities, Brunel University London. Trilingual EN, FR, AR. Paris.

I operationalize two capabilities that European boards now need: Post-Quantum Cryptography maturity (crypto-agility for the post-quantum era) and AI Agent Security (Authenticate, Authorize, Communicate for non-human identity). The driver is regulatory: NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act are pushing both onto the board agenda simultaneously.

Build

I authored the machine-learning threat-hunting research that delivered Kaspersky’s 25% APT detection lift in H1 2024 across the 400 million users and 250,000 organizations protected by Kaspersky technologies. The Securelist article is the primary source.

I built Kaspersky’s META threat-intelligence practice from the ground up and led attribution work on StoneDrill , MuddyWater , Desert Falcons , Gaza Cybergang , and Operation Ghoul , among others.

Bridge

Expert contributor to the French Senate’s OPECST report on AI (2024) , “Les nouveaux développements de l’intelligence artificielle,” alongside OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, and Microsoft. Subject-matter expert on ICANN’s second DNS Security, Stability & Resiliency Review Team (SSR2, 2017-2019) , the global governance review of the internet’s root DNS infrastructure. Invited expert for Renaissance Numérique’s AI Dialogues : Geneva session alongside the Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Brussels session at UCLouvain.

Speaker at 100+ international conferences. Featured on BBC, CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Bloomberg, France 24, Al Jazeera, and Al Arabiya. Trilingual EN, FR, AR.

Field

12 years at Kaspersky GReAT, 70 countries of regional threat coverage, engagement across 100+ countries, 34 with direct in-country travel. Security programs and threat-intelligence work across:

  • 10+ central banks including Saudi SAMA, Qatar Central Bank, UAE Central Bank, and Central Bank of Lebanon
  • Tier-1 oil and gas including ARAMCO (Kaspersky’s largest global customer), ADNOC, SABIC, and Qatar Petroleum
  • Major MENA telecoms including STC, Etisalat, and DU
  • 6 international law-enforcement bodies including Interpol, Europol, Afripol, GCCPOL, FBI, and ILCERT, including the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 joint operation with Interpol

Current focus

The paper series on AI Agent Security , the six reference implementations (PQC Scanner, Agent Identity Platform, Maturity Assessment, AgentTrustLab, DomainWatch, Papers Research Assistant), and public writing on LinkedIn .

Full track record including publications, speaking, training, and media.

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