Fortinet accelerated the pace and announced the winners of its 2017 Partner of the Year Awards at recently concluded Fortinet global partner and user conference, Accelerate 18 that was held at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Accelerate 18 saw more than 2,000 attendees representing over 1,700 different partners and customerRead More…
A recent study commissioned by F5 Networks, and conducted by research agency Think Positive, revealed that the biggest cloud concern for GCC businesses is data security (78% of all respondents). Saudi Arabia is particularly wary (92%), closely tailed by Bahrain (83%), the UAE (80%) and Qatar (70%). Other major concernsRead More…
Energy is overtaking banking and finance as a target for cyber-criminals in the Middle East, yet companies in the sector are leaving themselves significantly more open to a successful attack, leading international experts have told the Security in Energy conference in Abu Dhabi.Read More…
Saudi Arabia authorities have discovered an ‘advanced’ wave of cyber threats attacking the government’s computers. This follows the frequent cyber attacks that the Kingdom has suffered, the most recent being Shamoon which was a disc-wiping malware employed in attacks against Saudi energy sector in 2012. The National Cyber Security CentreRead More…
SANS Institute has opened registration for its upcoming cyber security training event in Saudi Arabia, taking place in Khobar from the 2nd to the 7th of December 2017. SANS Khobar 2017 will feature twoRead More…
Kaspersky Lab in its latest report claimed that Mamba, the ransomware which appeared last year in September on machines belonging to a energy company in Brazil with subsidiaries in the United States and India. Once the malware infects a Windows machine it overwrites the existing Master Boot Record, with a custom MBRRead More…
The growing importance of cyber security in Saudi Arabia was highlighted at the very start of this year when an estimated ten high-profile government and private sector enterprises were targeted by the destructive Shamoon 2 malware. SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, aims to arm organizations inRead More…
