Emile Abou Saleh, Senior Regional Director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa at Proofpoint, highlights how UAE CISOs tackle evolving cyber threats through AI-powered defenses, data loss prevention, and employee training.Read More…
Trellix has released The CyberThreat Report: November 2024, its latest research from the Trellix Advanced Research Center. The report provides insight into the regions and industries at risk, the evolving methods used by adversarial actors, and offers recommendations for CISOs and security operations teams tasked with protecting their organisation. The research examines an increasingly complexRead More…
Lawrence Pingree, VP Analyst at Gartner, explains that spending on cloud security is rising due to increasing cloud usage and emerging threats. By 2027, cloud investigations will dominate incident reports, necessitating advanced technologies for CISOs to ensure data and infrastructure security.Read More…
Proofpoint released its annual Voice of the CISO report, which explores key challenges, expectations and priorities of chief information security officers (CISOs) worldwide. The 2024 report draws attention to a notable trend: while fears of cyber attacks remain high, CISOs in the UAE demonstrate increasing confidence in their abilityRead More…
Dynatrace released its annual CISO survey. “The state of application security in 2024” reveals that organizations are struggling with internal communication barriers, which hinder their ability to address cybersecurity threats. The results indicate that CISOs in the Middle East, exactly like their counterpartsRead More…
Phil Muncaster, guest writer at ESET talks about the heavy workloads and the spectre of personal liability for incidents that take a toll on security leaders, so much so that many of them look for the exits. What does this mean for corporate cyber-defenses?Read More…
Only 33% of organisations in the UAE consider cyber resilience a top priority, and just 15-19% of CISOs in the Emirates regularly test their recovery plans, according to new research from Palo Alto Networks and IDC Research. This result is significantly lower than the average among all surveyed countries (28%)Read More…
Dubai based AZCOM IT Distribution has announced a new partnership with Seceon, a leading provider of comprehensive protection, detection and response platform. Seceon enables CIO’s, CISO’s, MSP’s, MSSP’s to reduce their cyber threat risks and their security stack complexity while greatly improving their ability to detect and block threats andRead More…
