Achieving Availability in a Multi-Cloud Era

By: Mohamad Rizk, Manager System Engineers, Middle East Veeam   The new digital economy has brought about many such changes, forcing businesses and their IT infrastructure to react in new ways to meet new demands. When it comes to cloud, the changes are just as dynamic. Research tells us that 81% of enterprises are embracing a multi-cloud strategy with a mix of solutions across private, public, and hybrid clouds – across multiple providers[1]. With this big move to multi-cloud, the next question is How can businesses ensure their apps and data are available across the new multi-cloud models they are adopting? Before … Continue reading Achieving Availability in a Multi-Cloud Era

Gulf Trade Finance Summit 2018 debuts in the UAE

QnA International hosts Gulf Trade Finance Summit 2018 in partnership with ExWorks Capital Backed by the overwhelming success of the Annual Saudi Trade Finance Summit held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for half a decade, Gulf Trade Finance Summit 2018 debuts in the UAE QnA International, a leading global business to business events company and the organizers of the Saudi Trade Finance Summit, hosts the first edition of the Gulf Trade Finance Summit in UAE. Held from September 25 – 26, in Steigenberger Hotel Business Bay, Dubai, the event features leading GCC Thought leaders and financial experts from some of the most forward-thinking … Continue reading Gulf Trade Finance Summit 2018 debuts in the UAE

Privilege Security for the New Perimeter

By Morey Haber, chief technology officer, BeyondTrust For all of information technology’s benefits, most organizations are well acquainted with the by-product of rapid IT advances and expansion―increased cybersecurity risk. Indeed, growing cybersecurity concerns correlate directly with your organization’s expanding digital universe and the number of people given some level of authority to operate within it. A swiftly expanding digital perimeter—both physical and logical—inevitably makes organizations more vulnerable to the so-called cyberattack chain, regardless of how far the perimeter has extended. The attack process starts with a successful perimeter breach or insider malfeasance, followed by the theft of “privileged” user credentials … Continue reading Privilege Security for the New Perimeter

Help AG Partners with Mimecast in Middle East to Help Address Email Security Threats Comprehensively

Recognizing the growing popularity of cloud-based email platforms such as Office 365 and Google Apps in the region,Help AG, a leading information security services, consultancy, and solutions provider in the Middle East, has signed a reseller agreement with Mimecast. The channel partnership is designed to enable Help AG to offer the vendor’s leading email risk management and data security solutions to businesses via a single, integrated subscription service. In the 2018 edition of its annual ‘The State of Email Security’ report, Mimecast highlighted that 59% of organisations will suffer a negative business impact from an email-borne attack this year. “Adding … Continue reading Help AG Partners with Mimecast in Middle East to Help Address Email Security Threats Comprehensively