Australia-based Anthony Spiteri, Senior Global Technologist at Veeam, suggests three fundamental measures IT leaders should introduce to safeguard their endpoint devices from ransomware threats. 2020 was a cybercriminal’s dream. With a spade of COVID-19 themed ransomware attacks and employees working remotely on unsecure networks, it’s no surprise Australia filed 59,806 cyber-crime reports between July 2019 […]

As Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has grown in popularity with businesses, it has been increasingly used to connect public and hybrid cloud services to the enterprise network and secure home-based teleworking. This brings its own security risks. Roque Lozano, Vice President of IP & Optics for Middle East and Africa at Nokia, explains how […]

Daniel Fried, General Manager and Senior Vice President, EMEA and Worldwide Channels at Veeam, on CIO challenges and the ongoing data protection conundrum for organisations across all industries in the region. The events of 2020 have profoundly changed the way businesses across EMEA work – with millions of employees now working from their home offices, […]

IT teams have to deploy, manage and secure increasingly complex and hybrid networks. John Madisson, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet, explains five essential security functions for hybrid networks. Organisations have distributed data and workloads across both cloud environments and on-premises data centres. As a result, IT teams have to deploy, manage and secure increasingly complex and […]

Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO at Qualys, outlines why organisations need an open, cloud-based platform that seamlessly builds security into their hybrid IT environments. Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO at Qualys, has provided a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome today’s security challenges, at the QSC EMEA 2021 12-Day Virtual event. With […]

Organisations have had to quickly respond to disruption caused by COVID-19, including securing their infrastructure. We hear from Anas Jwaied, Vice President and General Manager for Emerging Markets, Micro Focus and Tamer El Refaey, Chief Cyber Security Strategist, Emerging Markets, Micro Focus, who tell us how the company is helping businesses build overall resiliency to […]

In a world where the workplace is continuing to shift towards a ‘work anywhere’ model, moving towards a Zero Trust architecture simply makes sense. This is the message from Vijay Babber, Channel Manager at Gigamon Middle East, who tells us how organisations can embrace a Zero Trust strategy with a few key steps. The COVID-19 […]

In this edition of our Deep Dive series, Perry Hutton, VP-Africa, Fortinet, tells us about the security strategies and priorities CISOs and CIOs in Africa should be considering this year.

With IT leaders concerned about the challenges of securing employee’s access to the corporate network, Krupa Srivatsan, Director, Cybersecurity Product Marketing at Infoblox, looks at some rising threats that could be encountered. With the remote working trend on the rise due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many IT managers and corporate leaders have naturally been concerned […]

As organisations continue to grapple with the ‘new normal’, it’s important that they prioritise their cybersecurity strategies as cyberattackers look to leverage the COVID-19 pandemic for their own malicious gains. Garth Braithwaite, Senior Sales Director, Middle East, Southern Africa & Russia, Gigamon, tells us why enterprises must consider a security approach which couples Zero Trust […]