Author: Amrita Agarwal

 

As organizations continue to struggle with visibility into advanced cyberthreats, SOC teams are left overwhelmed with seemingly never-ending security alerts and false positives, leaving IT Security leaders doubtful of their attack readiness. CyberKnight announced at GISEC 2022 that it has signed a distribution agreement with Seclytics, the breakthrough pXDR platform that aligns and streamlines SOC workflow. Seclytics’ Augur gives organizations exceptional visibility on threats providing smart automation and orchestration to help beat alert overload and take back control of a SOC. The platform doesn’t rely on blocklists, or malware signatures based on past attacks: Augur’s predictive intelligence is proactive, seeking out and identifying threats long before attacks are launched. ...

The Saudi Federation For Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP), a national institution that aims to empower the local workforce and enhance their capabilities in the fields of Cybersecurity, Software Development, Drones and Advanced Technologies based on the best international practices, has inked a strategic partnership the Middle East and Africa region’s leading value-added distributor Spire Solutions known for introducing some of the world’s best cybersecurity technologies to the region. This partnership aims to support Saudi youth by: Providing a series of short training programs on some of the latest and greatest in cybersecurity technologies as part of CyberHubMotivating them with real-life stories of successful people in the cybersecurity domain as part of Cyber Nigh...

GISEC Global 2022 is making an eminent return this year to synergize cyber security needs across industries and organizations. It is one of the biggest cyber security events across the Middle East & North Africa that will bring together 300+ cyber security vendors & cyber security experts, heads of national security agencies, CISOs, and renowned ethical hackers from 40+ countries. The event will be held from 21st March to 23rd March at the World Trade Center, Dubai. PhishRod will be part of the GISEC 2022 and will demonstrate its automated security awareness & phishing incident response platform. With over 300+ references in the Middle East & North Africa, PhishRod is the fastest-growing security awareness & phishing readiness solution.  Our collaborative approach e...

CyberKnight announces its participation as the Principal Sponsor at the 13th annual e-Crime & Cybersecurity Congress in Dubai on March 7, as well as one of the largest exhibitors at GISEC 2022 on March 21-23. CyberKnight will highlight to regional IT Security leaders, the importance of observability and visibility while addressing today’s cybersecurity challenges. At the events, CyberKnight will also showcase its Zero Trust Security methodology – The ZTX Framework, alongside market-leading international cybersecurity vendors. At the eCrime Congress, CyberKnight will be joined by: Checkmarx: Unified Application SecuritySolarWinds: IT Management and Remote Monitoring “Due to the onslaught of ransomware and targeted attacks impacting customer operations in the region over th...

Spire Solutions, a top value-added distributor and preferred cybersecurity solutions provider servicing the Middle East and Africa, has announced a strategic partnership with Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group, a recognized leader in application security, to jointly minimize business risks across the software development life cycle (SDLC). Synopsys helps build secure, high-quality, and compliant software while maximizing velocity and controlling costs. This helps organizations create trust amongst users and customers, integrate security without affecting development velocity and address application security holistically. Synopsys has been a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for 5 years running as well as a Forrester Wave Leader for Static Application S...

We at CyberCentric are proud to announce that CyberCentric is the official media partner of GISEC Global 2022. GISEC is the region’s largest information security platform, GISEC presents industry, government and thought leaders with the opportunity to come together to tackle the most impending threats, issues and countermeasures amongst a global task force of security professionals. GISEC Global 2022 is scheduled for March 21-23 at the Dubai World Trade Center. GISEC (Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference) positions itself as “the Arab world's largest and most impactful cybersecurity conference.” CyberCentric (Official Media partner for GISEC Global 2022) About CyberCentric: CyberCentric is a content driven platform exclusive for cyber security which connects the vendo...

Sangfor Technologies, a leading vendor of cyber security & cloud computing solutions, was recently listed in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Server Virtualization (hereinafter referred to as the "Market Guide") as one of the representatives' Providers of Hypervisor-Based Server Virtualization. According to the Market Guide, Gartner suggests that “the server virtualization market is embracing innovation from public cloud providers and open-source projects. In 2022, I&O leaders must implement new approaches to server virtualization in the context of cloud, containers, and infrastructure modernization”. The Market Guide also points out that “increased use of both public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software can make the hyp...

In an exclusive interview with CyberCentric, Shahd El Dokky, Regional Product Manager, PhishRod explains the ingredients for PhishRod success and what do we expect from PhishRod in the year 2022. CC: How did PhishRod perform during the Year 2021? Shahd: We had an exceptional year and we achieved 200% YOY growth. We truly emerged as the fastest-growing cyber security awareness & phishing incident response platform and further cemented our position as a leader in the Middle East & North Africa region. Interestingly 30% of our new business was displacement where customers were using a competitor solution which truly shows that the customers see a lot of value in PhishRod. CC: Cyber Security Awareness is a saturated market, what makes PhishRod stand out? Shahd: PhishRod be...

In today's hybrid IT environments, organizations are accelerating digital transformation for long-term growth and profitability. This transformation, however, comes at a cost for enterprises. According to Gartner, this journey is taking twice as long and costing twice as much as initially anticipated. To address this challenge, organizations must be able to understand their potential weaknesses and vulnerable entry points and better manage their IT environments by ensuring they have comprehensive visibility into their systems. CyberKnight has signed a distribution agreement with SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT operations management software, including network management, security, IT service management, and application performance management solutions....