By Rick Vanover, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Veeam Ransomware attacks continue to grow in frequency. As well as being more common, ransomware is also getting more potent. As per Veeam’s 2023 Ransomware Trends Report 21% of companies paid the ransom but could not recover their data. The threat landscape is as volatileRead More…
By Lori MacVittie, Distinguished Engineer at F5 Generative AI is an application of machine learning that can create a variety of content such as text, images, or audio from natural language prompts. It gained broad popularity with the introduction of ChatGPT—an OpenAI project—that resulted in an explosion of new uses acrossRead More…
By Ziad Nasr, General Manager, Middle East, Acronis In today’s digital age, re-evaluating networks and cybersecurity operations is essential, particularly in the UAE, where the threat landscape is rapidly evolving. For instance, in 2021, the UAE witnessed an increase of 71% in cyber-attacks, emphasising the critical need to upgrade outdated systems,Read More…
Gaurav Mohan, VP for SAARC & Middle East at NETSCOUT delves into the critical nuances of integrating security tools effectively to achieve optimal results in the face of evolving cyber threats and highlights the significance of a comprehensive XDR strategy,Read More…
Bilal Baig, Technical Director at Trend Micro MEA explains that big part of the business decision-makers still perceive investing in cybersecurity as a cost and not as a business enablerRead More…
In this day and age, the Middle East has witnessed a significant surge in cyberattacks, especially ones that pose a serious threat to organizations in the region. According to Fedor Chunizhekov, Information Security Analyst at Positive Technologies, “The threat to the Middle East is very much real. Rapid advancement inRead More…
Cyberattacks have become more sophisticated and immature security practices make endpoints an easy target in advanced cyberattacks. Security and risk management (SRM) leaders relying on traditional signature-based endpoint security struggle with defence against fileless attacks, ransomware, and identity theft. Prevention alone is not enough. SRM leaders need to strengthen theRead More…
The World Wide Web, more commonly known as the Internet, is the widest digital network ever created and the primary platform of communication for over 64% of the world’s population, currently surpassing 5.16 billion connected users according to the DIGITAL 2023: GLOBAL OVERVIEW REPORT by WeAreSocial. This percentage becomes evenRead More…
