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Hassan Ennaciri
Sr Director Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- Digital Workplace, End-user Services
- Security and Compliance
- Data Center, Colocation, Storage and Servers
- IT Operations Management
- Reliability, Resilience and Recovery
- IT Infrastructure Management
Speaker Bio
As a Sr. Director Analyst in Gartner's Infrastructure and Operations group, Hassan Ennaciri guides global enterprises through the evolution of cloud, infrastructure platform engineering, and site reliability engineering (SRE). He advises clients on optimizing infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and orchestration platforms while leveraging AI to transform modern I&O practices. His research and advisory empower leaders to embed AI-driven intelligence into DevOps tools, platform teams, and SRE workflows accelerating product delivery, enhancing resilience, and scaling autonomous platform operations.
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Sessions
Tuesday, December 01, 2026 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Ransomware Reloaded: How AI Is Reshaping the Threat and the Defense
Hassan Ennaciri,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As AI rapidly advances, it is transforming the ransomware landscape, empowering both attackers and defenders. This session explores how threat actors use AI to accelerate the success of their cyberattacks, while security leaders turn to AI tools for faster detection and response. This session offers a look at the evolving AI-powered threat environment and provides actionable insights on adapting defenses, updating playbooks and preparing for the next generation of intelligent cyber extortion.
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Wednesday, December 02, 2026 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM JST
How to Prepare for the Next Flawed Vendor Update
Hassan Ennaciri,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The 2024 CrowdStrike outage exposed a critical vulnerability: flawed vendor updates can disrupt your enterprise. Traditional IT disaster recovery is not equipped for this supply chain risk. Attend this session and learn the three essential steps security and IT teams must take to build endpoint resilience: granular ITDR planning, risk-based update management to limit the blast radius and converting undocumented knowledge into formal, repeatable recovery runbooks.
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Thursday, December 03, 2026 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Five AI infrastructure Scenarios Heads of IO Should Plan for 2027
Hassan Ennaciri,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI infrastructure choices will diverge in 2027 based on adoption speed, model strategy and risk constraints. This session presents five planning scenarios that change compute, data, network, security, and operations requirements. For each scenario, Heads of I&O will learn early signals, key decisions, and the first actions to reduce risk and avoid rework.
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