FireEye has recently revealed a wave of cyberattacks against banks in the Middle East. FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence (DTI) identified emails containing malicious attachments being sent to multiple banks in the region. The threat actors appear to be performing initial reconnaissance against would-be targets and were detected since they were using unique scripts not commonly […]

The results of a recent IT security survey of Middle East organisations conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) show that the top three threats to enterprise security are infected USB drives, data theft by employees, and advanced persistent threats. These threats all have one aspect in common – insider risk. The fact that users do […]

DarkMatter will be addressing the requirement to add resilience to digital infrastructure in order for Dubai to achieve the ambition of becoming the smartest city in the world by 2017. During his featured talk at the forthcoming .Gov Awards gala event taking place in Dubai on 18 May, 2016, DarkMatter CEO, Faisal Al Bannai will […]

Infoblox and Fortinet will jointly host a security seminar entitled ‘Together We Protect’ at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Monday, May 30th. Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East at Infoblox says, “We are in the midst of a wave of IT transformation and modernisation. Regional organisations need to focus on security […]

A recent study carried out by FireEye has revealed that data breaches significantly dent consumer trust in major brands. With a number of high-profile breaches taking place on a global scale, the findings highlight rising concerns over the issue of cybersecurity and how public perception of a company is altered in the event of a […]

Infoblox has announced its participation as a main sponsor of the Cyber Security in Telecoms event taking place at the Marriott Al Jaddaf hotel in Dubai between 23rd – 24th May, 2016. The company will be sharing best practices and insights on the latest technologies that service providers can implement to combat Domain Name System […]

Cisco has announced its participation at Kuwait Info Security Conference & Exhibition to be held at Radisson Blue Hotel, under the patronage of the Central Agency for Information Technology on May 11-12. As the main sponsor of the event, Cisco will be showcasing it threat-centric security solution suite which extends across the network, data and […]

The threat landscape is more complex than ever, and establishing a cyber-security strategy in 2016 entails accounting for a number of different factors. Hackers will employ a variety of techniques to achieve their goals. In order to establish a viable defence, enterprises and VARs must select the necessary technology for countering different forms of attacks, […]

Vaultize, the enterprise file security vendor with its East Africa partner Compulynx, exhibited its enterprise digital rights management and file sync and share, at a launch event in Nairobi. Director of Sales for International Business at Vaultize, Sameer Vitkar presented the enterprise file security platform to the CIO community. “Vaultize enhances our existing product portfolio […]

Worldwide spending on Internet of Things (IoT) security will reach $348 million in 2016, a 23.7% increase from 2015 spending of $281.5 million, according to Gartner. Spending on IoT security is expected to reach $547 million in 2018 (see Table 1). Although overall spending will initially be moderate, Gartner predicts that IoT security market spending will increase […]