By Brian Chappell, Senior Director, Enterprise and Solution Architecture, BeyondTrust You would think that Millennials would be better with their passwords. I mean, this is the generation – born between the early 80s and the mid-90s – that grew up with and continues to largely define the way we use the Internet. Still, a recent IBM […]

Dubai Technology Partners LLC (DTP), a leading systems integrator for the aviation industry, announced it has joined forces with Xovis, a leading provider of people flow monitoring solutions, to help improve operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH). Serving 24 million passengers per year, AUH is one of the fastest growing hubs in the world […]

Information security experts as well as top managers and executives were among those to attend SearchInform’s road show, themed Money Loss Prevention: futuristic security, in South Africa. The company entered the South African market in March 2018 and has immediately engaged businesses to showcase its solutions. The company offers a fresh perspective on cybersecurity, replacing a […]

Cybercriminals are turning their attention to the supply chain as a new means to exploit business data. This is according to Dimension Data’s newly published Executive Guide to the NTT Security 2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report, which has revealed there was a worrying increase in ransomware and other cyberattacks targeting the supply chain in 2017. […]

By Rabih Itani, Regional Business Development Manager – Security, Middle East and Turkey at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic of discussion in many industries for a while now, with healthcare, retail and hospitality (to name but a few) starting to speculate on the massive opportunities its […]

AppCentrix, a leading South Africa-based managed ICT services company, has announced its expansion into the Middle East and the signing of a distribution agreement with ExtraHop, a leader in real-time IT analytics for network performance management and security. The company intends to capitalise on the region’s growing need for robust and competitively priced cybersecurity solutions […]

Oliver Cantor, Verizon’s Associate Director of Product Strategy, looks at Software Defined Perimeters and how they can be employed by businesses to help deal with cyber threats. Undoubtedly, the biggest threat that businesses have to deal with today is cyberattacks. From having files and systems locked by ransomware, through to denial-of-service attacks bringing down entire […]

Veeam Software, a leader in intelligent data management for the hyper-available enterprise, has unveiled a new, key component of the company’s Hyper-Availability Platform. A form of copy data management, the new component, Veeam DataLabs, will allow organisations to easily create new instances of their production environments on-demand. This capability enables use cases beyond typical data […]

Bryan Hamman, Arbor Networks’ territory manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, discusses where South Africa stands in terms of government awareness of DDoS threats, and activities that should be taken to protect business and enterprises from DDoS attacks. There’s no doubt that the United States is taking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks seriously. In point of […]

Gemalto, a leader in digital security, is strengthening trust in the smart energy sector with an end-to-end security solution which protects the entire ecosystem. In the UAE, the Federal Electricity and Water Authority is planning to install 600,000 water and electricity smart meters (to replace the current ones), with 70,000 smart meters having already been […]