IBM Security has announced the results of a global study, based on in-depth analysis of over 500 real-world data breaches occurring over the past year across 17 countries, including the Middle East region, and among 17 different industries. According to the study, the Middle East region is the second...
SANS Institute has announced its upcoming live online training program ‘SANS Summer Dunes August 2021 Live Online’, to be held from 14th – 19th August. Designed to offer flexible access to cyber security training taught by real-world practitioners, the event enables Gulf professionals to protect...
Help AG, the cybersecurity arm of Etisalat Digital, has launched a fully cloud-delivered Managed Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF) service that proactively improves the security posture for organisations relying on web-based applications. The service is in line with Help AG’s service centric evolution that offers customers...
Stuart Taylor, senior director at Forcepoint X-Labs looks at the complex issue of technical debt in light of the recent Fastly outage incident When one web services customer changes a setting, and huge swathes of the internet become inaccessible as a result, you know the time...
Security and IT professionals in the Middle East are increasingly looking to secure critical application data using encryption and HSMs. This and other findings are highlighted in the Entrust 2021 Middle East Encryption Trends study, the sixteenth annual multinational survey by the Ponemon Institute. The study...
Intersec Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s largest trade fair for security, safety, and fire protection, has been rescheduled to take place in September 2022, the show’s organiser has announced. The 4th edition of the three-day event was originally set to run from 12-14 September 2021, however the...
Zaal Nodjoumi, chief executive officer of Cyber Sense Technologies Ltd looks at how cyber security needs to be taken seriously enterprise-wide 'Cyber Security' - Just uttering these words to most people causes them to check out of the conversation before it even starts. From CEOs to...
Mindware, a leading Value Added Distributors (VADs) in the Middle East and Africa, has signed an agreement with Barracuda, a leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions, to offer the entire suite of the vendor’s security products to enterprises across North, West and Central Africa. The new...
Moro Hub has signed a Managed Service Provider (MSP) agreement with Trend Micro to provide cloud workload protection services to its customers. The agreement was signed between Marwan Bin Haidar, vice chairman and group eco of Digital DEWA and Majd Sinan, country manager, Trend Micro UAE. "Our cooperation with...
Saudi Arabia will make a bold entry onto the global tech stage later this year with a ground-breaking, mega cybersecurity event that will bring together the world’s best hackers and trainers in the Kingdom. The Saudi Federation of Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP), which has masterminded...
Sherif Shaltout vice president operations, Cysiv Middle East & Africa addresses the key frustrations facing security operations operatives and how SOC-as-a-Service can help solve them Enterprises are constantly adopting new tools and technologies to make threat detection and response more efficient. However, these solutions need to...
NDR, EDR and XDR – these buzzwords often cause confusion among IT decision-makers who are responsible for their company's cybersecurity. In many cases, due to the numerous offers and the differently advertised scopes of services, it is not clear what exactly is hidden behind these...
KPMG is looking for Saudi Arabia’s top tech innovators who are poised and prepared to become tech titans with the launch of Saudi edition of the “KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator Competition”, with the tagline – Tech Innovators of Today; Titans of Tomorrow. Following the success...
Many organisations rely on satellite technology but orbiting the earth doesn't protect them from hackers. Daniel Norman, senior solutions analyst at the Information Security Forum explains why they are vulnerable and attractive targets Satellite assets are unique; they are often two-to-three years in the making and...
Mindware, Value Added Distributors (VADs) in the Middle East and Africa, has announced that it has signed an agreement with ESET, provider in information security software, to offer the entire suite of the vendor’s business products to enterprises across the Middle East. This builds on...
Chris Stephens, head of fraud & security analytics at Callsign looks at the rise of internet scams and how to prevent them Fraud costs the global economy US$5 trillion each year, which is around $700 per person worldwide, according to accounting firm Crowe. The rise of...
An essential step that must be considered prior to or along with the digital transformation initiatives: An Interview with Mohamed Youssef, Dubai Chapter President, Control Systems Cyber Security Association International (CS2AI)– CyberX Qatar Summit Mr. Mohamed Youssef will join Ibento Global’s CyberX Qatar Summit (Virtual Edition),...
KPMG Professional Services in Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with Aramco, one of the largest energy and chemicals companies in the world, to examine and strengthen the cybersecurity compliance checks across Aramco’s third-parties and suppliers. Aramco has recently implemented the Third-Party Cybersecurity Compliance Certificate (CCC) Programme, a...
The inaugural edition of World Big Data & Analytics Show – India, which took place on 20 April 2021, has attracted some of the prominent voices in the data and analytics space such as, Dr Neeta Verma - Director General, NIC; Golok Kumar Simli - Chief of Technology, Ministry...
Attivo Networks®, the industry experts in lateral movement attack detection and privilege escalation prevention, announced today a new integration for the Attivo EDN Suite with SentinelOne’s Singularity XDR platform. With an uptick in the number of human and machine entities to secure, the attack surface...
How can you detect a potential social engineering attack? Social engineering attacks such as phishing, ransomware, or pretexting are dangerous and often hard to pinpoint. In order to protect your organization against cyber threats, it’s very important to detect them as soon as possible and that...
Dr. R. Seetharaman will join Ibento Global’s CyberX Qatar Summit, which is taking place on 7-8 June’2021. We took the opportunity to interview Dr. R. Seetharaman and ask him some questions about his upcoming Keynote talk, sharing CEO’s perspective on - The Making of Cybersecurity...
Digital identity provider, Callsign has established an engineering and development site in Abu Dhabi. In line with the UAE's Vision 2071 for a nation that places digital transformation at the heart of the national strategy, Callsign is building a world-class engineering facility, employing regional talent...
The Bahrain International Circuit Organisation used the Kingdom of Bahrain’s extended Tetra network infrastructure, provided by Airbus, to secure the 5,412-metre international race circuit and to ensure a smooth organisation and coordination between teams. The event organisation employees and security teams therefore benefited from Airbus’ reliable...
Genetec shares the results of its ‘Physical Security in EMEA 2021’ report, based on insights from over 1,500 physical security professionals which show how physical security teams across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are leveraging technology to manage both short term needs and long-term priorities. The...
The construction industry may not appear to be an obvious target for cybercrime, but it garners unwanted online attention just like other sectors. According to the Cost of Data Breach Report 2020 by IBM, the average cost of a data breach in the industrial sector...
IDEMIA, global leader in Augmented Identity, and Cybernetica, leader in secure data transmissions and digital identity, partner up to offer governments and other interested parties a new two-in-one digital ID solution. The solution aims to reinforce trust in mobile-based ID authentication and qualified signatures when using...
In the first of his regular new information security columns for Security Middle East, Daniel Norman senior solutions analyst at the Information Security Forum (ISF) looks at how criminals exploit the 'accidental insider'. Profiling and understanding key threats posed to an organisation is a core component...
According to IDC's annual Saudi Arabia CIO Survey 2020, 25% of enterprises in Saudi Arabia plan to deploy on-premises, dedicated private clouds, multiple public clouds and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs. However, security concerns form one of the three main obstacles towards cloud...
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced the appointment of international experts in the field of systems security to the Board of Advisors of its Secure Systems Research Centre (SSRC). Secure Systems Research Centre...
Cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint, Inc. , in collaboration with its strategic partner Help AG, the cybersecurity arm of Etisalat Digital have released research identifying that almost a third (31%) of the Forbes Top 100 Middle East Companies do not have a Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting...
“Organisations should never have to choose between protecting the privacy of individuals and their physical security,” says Pierre Racz, President of Genetec, a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions. In the physical security industry, protecting people and assets...
Credence Security, a leading regional distributor of specialised cybersecurity solutions, recently signed an agreement with data-protection leader Sealpath to bring its robust privacy and protection solutions to the Middle East, Africa and India (MEAI) region. A recent report by PwC revealed businesses in the Middle...
The Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Thales Group, a global leader in cybersecurity technologies and in data protection. As part of the agreement, the two parties will collaborate in different strategic initiatives to achieve the city cyber security vision....
Jaguar Racing has recently announced that they have partnered with one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, Micro Focus, ahead of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Joining as the team’s official digital transformation, business resiliency and analytics partner, Micro Focus will provide support...