Facilitating global trade requires a robust digital infrastructure supported by a thorough understanding of the value of data. Younis Othman, Director of Information Technology Department, Dubai Customs, talks to Intelligent CISO’s Alix Pressley about how Dell Technologies’ suite of data protection solutions meet the organisation’s constantly evolving data protection needs and help the customer to […]

Arcserve, one of the world’s most experienced providers of backup, recovery and immutable storage solutions for unified data resilience against ransomware and disasters, has announced key findings from its annual independent global research study that showed the loss of critical data continues to disrupt businesses and remain an issue for organisations. In the research study […]

UK cybersecurity services firm, Bridewell, has announced the opening of its new 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Wales. The company’s largest investment in property to date, the state-of-the-art SOC will provide rapid identification and response to threats while laying the foundations for sustained cybersecurity excellence for generations to come.  Run by a team of […]

Infoblox has published its Q2 2022 report, drawing attention to many dangerous malware threats to organisations. The research compiles the main threats and security breaches detected during the months of April–June 2022 and highlights smishing as one of the most prominent forms of attack. Smishing, a cyberattack strategy that combines SMS (short message service, also […]

Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published a new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in Retail 2022, which found that retail had the second highest rate of ransomware attacks last year of all sectors surveyed after the media, leisure and entertainment industry. Globally, 77% of retail organisations surveyed were hit – […]

Cloud adoption continues to be important for many organizations as they transform how they do business in today’s digital world. US-based Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, Vice President, Global Field CISO at Fortinet, tells us while there are many benefits associated with cloud adoption, the security implications of moving to the cloud cannot be ignored if organizations are […]

The increase in remote working has resulted in an increase in vulnerability for companies protecting themselves from cyberattacks. The Verizon Mobile Security Index (MSI) 2022 reveals that there is a continued rise in major cyberattacks in the last year involving a mobile/IoT device, up 22% year-over-year, that resulted in data or system downtime. With 85% […]

Omar Al Barghouthi, Regional Director, Middle East at Dragos, considers five best practices that allow data centre security teams to avoid disaster and attempts to highlight to OT-focused threat actors that they aren’t in for an easy ride. Companies running data centres in today’s threat environment implicitly understand that cybersecurity is paramount. Data centres stand […]

Omar Al Barghouthi, Regional Director, Middle East at Dragos, considers five best practices that allow data centre security teams to avoid disaster and attempts to highlight to OT-focused threat actors that they aren’t in for an easy ride. Companies running data centres in today’s threat environment implicitly understand that cybersecurity is paramount. Data centres stand […]