Atos and Thales have announced the creation of Athea, a joint-venture that will develop a sovereign Big Data and Artificial Intelligence platform for public and private sector players in the defence, intelligence and internal state security communities. Athea will draw on the experience gained by both companies from the demonstration phase of the ARTEMIS programme, […]

Over one-third (38%) of IT professionals say they are very concerned about the security risks third-party providers present to their organisation, according to the latest Twitter poll run by Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s number one Information Security event. More than a quarter (27.7%) admit they have no processes in place to control data and information flow […]

Hardus Dippenaar, Senior Network Architect at Datacentrix, discusses why a Zero Trust policy is necessary and why organisations should embrace this particular approach to security. Our changing world, with its more distributed infrastructure and new applications and workloads exposing a larger attack surface, means that perimeter security, while still an important element within an enterprise’s […]

JBS SA and Pilgrim’s have announced significant progress has been made in resolving a cyberattack that has impacted the company’s operations in North America and Australia. Operations in Mexico and the UK were not impacted and are conducting business as normal.   JBS USA and Pilgrim’s were able to ship product from nearly all of […]

A survey from Auth0 has revealed that APAC businesses fall short of consumer expectations for login experiences. Auth0, the modern identity platform, has announced findings from its international research into Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), The Login Experience Customers Want. Auth0, the modern identity platform, has announced findings from its international research into Customer […]

SANS Institute has confirmed that it is the Official Training Partner for the Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC), currently underway at the Dubai World Trade Centre. This year, GISEC is being held from May 31 to June 2, 2021 and has emerged as the Arab world’s largest and most impactful cybersecurity event and […]

Cyber exposure company Tenable, is exhibiting at the Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC), taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from May 31y to June 2, 2021 to highlight Active Directory security capabilities. According to Tenable, cyberbreaches typically start by exploiting a known vulnerability followed by attacks on Active Directory to escalate […]

Nozomi Networks Inc, a provider of OT and IoT security solutions, is at the Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) 2021, to showcase cybersecurity solutions and highlight its tremendous growth momentum and key solutions and capabilities to help Middle East customers bridge OT and IoT security gaps and gain visibility across their operations. Bachir […]

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company specialising in investigating and preventing hi-tech cybercrimes, has officially announced the opening of its Middle East and Africa (MEA) Threat Intelligence and Research Centre in Dubai. The grand opening, held at the Habtoor Palace Dubai, was attended by representatives of the local financial organisations, government […]

Kaspersky Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection, designed to reveal deviations in production processes at the earliest stage, is now generally available as a commercial product. The detector is empowered with Machine Learning algorithms that analyse telemetry from machinery sensors. It warns of machine malfunctions by raising alerts as soon as manufacturing process parameters (tags) begin […]