SentinelOne, the vendor company providing endpoint security by delivering real-time protection powered by machine learning and intelligent automation, announced its expansion into Europe, Middle East, and Africa through a strategic partnership with leading security distributor Exclusive Networks. SentinelOne and Exclusive Networks will partner to initially bring Next Generation Endpoint Protection to the EMEA region. Their […]

FireEye has recently revealed key insights on the state of cyber attacks across the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, particularly in the countries of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). In recent years, the GCC states have witnessed a spate of attacks, targeting key industries and critical infrastructure. The Regional Advanced Threat Report for […]

Many organisations have no clue how much one minute of internet downtime costs them, or haven’t stopped to think about it, says Tom Beinkowski, Director of Product Marketing at Arbor Networks. As a result, they greatly underestimate the impact of one of the most common causes of downtime – DDoS attacks. Almost every organisation now depends on the […]

A recent attack against the SWIFT international financial transaction system has focused attention on the potential cascading threat of an interconnected yet not fully integrated system.

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 […]