Antoine Harb, Team Leader Middle East and North Africa at Kingston Technology discusses the importance of encryption in securing the data that is the cornerstone of digital transformation. With GDPR and similar regulations in place, the loss of data can be a big implication on businesses in the regionRead More…
Region’s leading international financial hub, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), will implement the new Data Protection Law No. 5 of 2020 from 1 July 2020. The law places Dubai and DIFC at the forefront of data protection in the Middle East,Read More…
Synology recently found that several users were under a ransomware attack, where admins’ credentials were stolen by brute-force login attacks, and their data was encrypted as a result. Synology investigated and found that the causes of these attacks were due to dictionary attacksRead More…
Spire Solutions has signed a distribution partnership with Titus to assist organizations in the Middle East with developing an effective data protection strategy that includes data identification, classification and categorization.Read More…
Giridhara Raam M, Marketing Analyst, ManageEngine discusses that it’s been a year since GDPR came into effect. So far, it has brought more security to EU citizens’ personal data. Though this European data protection law has brought better security to end users, it’s left many businesses struggling to modify theirRead More…
A new ransomware called MegaCortex has been discovered, that targets corporate networks and workstations on them. Once a network is penetrated, attackers infect the entire network by distributing the ransomware using Windows domain controllers. In a new report, Sophos, a global leader in endpoint and network security, has stated thatRead More…
Every year, the first Thursday of May is designated as World Password Day-not exactly a cause for celebration, but the fact is, these little crypto keys which are our first line of digital defence, may well be on their way out. For many of us, this will come as aRead More…
Dell EMC unveiled its latest Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), the Dell EMC IDPA DP4400, providing simple and powerful converged data protection to help mid-size organizations transform IT while combatting data sprawl and complexity.Read More…
