Cybersecurity defences are under unprecedented levels of attack. From old malware foes and newer types, such as ransomware, to sophisticated advanced threats and state-sponsored cyberattacks, breaches are now an everyday reality, says Tarek Jundi, managing director, Middle East and Turkey, McAfee. It’s an ever-changing landscape that organisations face. Take the McAfee Labs 2018 Threat Predictions […]

ServiceNow report finds 63% of EMEA security professionals plan to hire for vulnerability response over the next 12 months, yet more talent alone won’t solve the problem. ServiceNow has released new research, Today’s State of Vulnerability Response: Patch Work Demands Attention, based on a survey conducted with the Ponemon Institute. The report uncovered security’s ‘patching paradox’ […]

A10 Networks builds on its carrier-grade Gi/SGi firewall line-up to add broad-spectrum support for 3GPP standard protocols and application intelligence. A10 Networks, a Reliable Security Always company, has announced the enhancement of its Thunder Convergent Firewall (CFW) Gi/SGi firewall solution to help service providers support demands of existing mobile networks and the emergence of 5G […]

Batelco, a leading digital solutions operator in Bahrain, has been presented with a new ISO Certificate in Information Security (ISO 27001:2013) that covers a wider scope, following a thorough and vigorous auditing process conducted by Certification Bureau Veritas. The certification was received for the following units: Technology Units: Telecom Network and IT Retail operations Data […]

Company to demonstrate unified security and how it successfully incorporates access control and new analytic systems for collaborative insights. Genetec, a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, is set to embark on a 10 city roadshow across the Middle East and Turkey to showcase the company’s product roadmap […]

Jim Doggett, US VP and CISO, Panaseer In the good ‘ol days of CISO, things were straightforward and it was pretty easy to do what it took to be successful. I would prepare a budget for the upcoming year from a list of essential and value-added projects, which my security and risk team supported. Then […]

The Internet of Things is rapidly expanding the attack surface of the digital enterprise and exposing it to enhanced risk levels not seen before. Deception technologies, artificial intelligence, robo-hunters, are solutions for tomorrow’s enterprise, says Mechelle Buys Du Plessis, Managing Director, UAE, Dimension Data. The convergence between operational and digital technologies is well underway, being […]

Jim Ducharme, RSA Security’s VP of Identity Products The days where passwords and tokens were our only way of identifying people and systems is long gone. Today, we have a vast array of technologies, including: multi-factor authentication (MFA), standards-based solutions, biometrics and smartphone-based authentication – to name just a few. This change has been driven […]

Infoblox Inc,  the network control company that provides Actionable Network Intelligence, has announced significant enhancements to its  ActiveTrust Cloud. It offers leverages advanced analytics to expand detection of potential zero day threats and prevent the loss of data, adds the ability to distribute threat intelligence to other security products in the network and ensures that […]

Leading information security company SearchInForm has partnered with Condyn to bring its next generation data leak prevention technology to the African market. The benefit of the system is based on the principle – one cannot prevent what one doesn’t know about. Therefore, it also takes into consideration social media and other communication channels used daily […]