Allurity, with bases in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, has acquired Spanish multinational Aiuken Cybersecurity as an important step in its journey to becoming Europe's leading cybersecurity provider. Aiuken brings an entire SOC platform spanning three continents, as well as its Cloud Security and SOC-as-a-Service...
The face of data protection is rapidly changing to keep pace with the demands of bigger, faster data. Omar Akar, Regional Vice President, Middle East & Emerging Africa, Pure Solutions, looks at what a modern data protection strategy needs to look like. The United Arab Emirates...
Group-IB, one of the global cybersecurity leaders, carried out a deep dive into exposed digital assets discovered in 2021 and identified more than 300,000 exposed databases. The findings showed that in the second half of 2021, the number of public-facing databases increased by 16% to 165,600...
A recent study from the world's leading VPN service, NordVPN, has revealed that 86% of consumers are reasonably concerned about their data privacy. Furthermore, it found that 92% of consumers also fail to protect their privacy, leaving them open to cyber attacks. The study focused on American...
In the wake of increasing risk of cyber attacks, ATG Digital has highlighted the dangers of visitor data protection. Personal data is under siege from all sides and with notable cases in the headlines including Experian, Lightstone and TransUnion, it's never been more important to tackle...
March 31st marks World Backup Day, as recent experts suggest that 80% of organisations have not backed up their data. Oliver Cronk, Chief Architect for EMEA at Tanium, said: "World Backup Day is an initiative that should be taken seriously because I see many cases where backups...
Vinchin Backup & Recovery v6.5 has been launched offering next-generation, innovative data protection solutions for advanced backup and restore performance. The new release provides multi-tenant management mode for managed service providers to deliver both Backup as-a-service (BaaS) and Disaster-Recovery as-a-service (DRaaS). It features complete data protection...
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...
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...
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...
Andrea Babbs of anti-virus solutions provider Vipre says that as well as combatting external cyber threats businesses need to remain focused on the threat of accidental insider data leakage Cybercrime has rapidly become the world’s fastest growing form of criminal activity, and is showing no sign of slowing...
More malware, identity fraud and threat actors are just some of the security concerns that will be facing CISOs and IT staff in the coming year, according to BeyondTrust specialists in Privileged Access Management (PAM), who has announced its top security predictions for the New...
While IT security spending in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa is expected to surpass $2.7 billion this year[1], Help AG warns that investments in security products alone will prove insufficient in protecting businesses. The cyber security specialist is advocating the adoption of the ‘Zero-Trust’...
Oman Data Park (ODP) has deployed Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) as part of its ODP Managed Security Services for end point protection. Oman Data Park is the first managed service provider in Oman, offering managed cloud services, public cloud, co-location and managed security services to both...