Saturday, December 28

Author: Amrita Agarwal

EfficientIP Appoints “Racha Abdallah” to Strengthen Pre-Sales in the Middle East & North Africa Region

EfficientIP Appoints “Racha Abdallah” to Strengthen Pre-Sales in the Middle East & North Africa Region

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EfficientIP, a leader in DNS-DHCP-IPAM (DDI) Solutions has appointed Racha Abdallah to strengthen Pre-Sales in the Middle East & North Africa Region. Racha has over 10+ years’ experience in system engineering and pre-sales of cyber security solutions. Prior to taking up this role, she had worked as a Pre-Sales Consultant for CyberKnight, a leading value-added distribution in the region. She played a significant role in the success of CyberKnight and was directing managing pre-sales of products like CrowdStrike, PhishRod, ValiMail & Immersive Labs. Besides pre-sales, she was also involved in deployments & product training for customers. Her advanced knowledge, technical expertise, problem-solving skills and being a goal achiever has earned her a lot of respect in the cyber ...
CyberKnight Achieves 200% Revenue Growth in its Second Year Crossing $29 Million in 2021 Bookings

CyberKnight Achieves 200% Revenue Growth in its Second Year Crossing $29 Million in 2021 Bookings

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CyberKnight, the pioneer of Zero Trust Security value-added distribution, today announced its financial results for FY2021. In its second year of operation, CyberKnight processed more than $29 Million in orders realizing a revenue increase of more than 200% over the previous year. This notable achievement and the rapid growth are the results of substantial investment into high-caliber business development and technical local teams across the Middle East, a keen focus on expanding the breadth of the channel partner ecosystem, successfully delivering extensive high-ROI marketing activities, maintaining strategic customer relationships, and effectively building out a market-leading Zero Trust Security-focused portfolio offering. “It’s been a whirlwind year that has ended well for ...
Quantum Xchange Partners with Spire Solutions to Bring Advanced Quantum

Quantum Xchange Partners with Spire Solutions to Bring Advanced Quantum

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 Quantum Xchange, delivering the future of encryption with its leading-edge key distribution platform has entered into a strategic partnership with Spire Solutions, a top value-added distributor and preferred cybersecurity solutions provider servicing the Middle East and Africa. Spire customers, partners, and prospects will benefit from access to Phio Trusted Xchange (TX), Quantum Xchange’s out-of-band key delivery system that enables users to future-proof the security of their data and communications networks; overcome the vulnerabilities of present-day encryption techniques, e.g., keys and data traveling together; and protect against man-in-the-middle, harvesting, and future quantum attacks. Phio TX from Quantum Xchange acts as a simple architecture overlay that works in tandem ...
Blackhat Organizers Rope in Spire Solutions as a Strategic Sponsor for @Hack in KSA

Blackhat Organizers Rope in Spire Solutions as a Strategic Sponsor for @Hack in KSA

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Saudi Arabia is making huge technology investments towards enabling Vision 2030 and Giga projects like NEOM and has also expressed its interest to bid for World Expo 2030. With all this comes the responsibility to protect the electronic and digital assets that make these initiatives happen. With security at its core, the Saudi Federation for Cyber Security, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP) and Informatech, in association with the iconic Blackhat, are co-organizing @Hack from November 28 to 30 at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center. The organizers have roped in the Middle East and Africa region’s leading value-added distributor Spire Solutions as one of the Strategic Sponsors to introduce regionally relevant cybersecurity solutions to CISOs and other security professional...
Gartner Reviews for Sangfor Next-Generation Firewall

Gartner Reviews for Sangfor Next-Generation Firewall

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Sangfor Technologies in this new era of threats is a leading global vendor of IT infrastructure solutions with core competencies in Cloud Computing & Network Security with a wide range of products & services including Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Next-Generation Firewall, Internet Access Management and many others. Sangfor technologies with 10+ offices and 30,000+ customers around the globe are providing their clients a solution for their needs. Sangfor’s Next-generation Firewall was developed to protect against advanced web-based attacks like SQL injection, web shells, struts2 injection and deserialization flaws. Sangfor's Application Layer Firewall utilizes machine and profound learning on how to break down assault practices, upgrading dete...
CyberKnight to Educate Business Community on Gaining Intelligence & Visibility in a Zero Trust World at GITEX 2021

CyberKnight to Educate Business Community on Gaining Intelligence & Visibility in a Zero Trust World at GITEX 2021

GITEX, News
During GITEX 2021, as a Sponsor of the show, CyberKnight will showcase its Zero Trust Security methodology – The ZTX Framework, while participating along with 14 market-leading cybersecurity vendors from its product portfolio. CyberKnight’s theme for this year is ‘Never Trust, Always Verify: Gaining Intelligence & Visibility in a Zero Trust World’. “We believe that many customers and partners are keen to learn more about this trend, and we are excited about the opportunity to create awareness around this very important topic with regional IT Security leaders.”, commented Avinash Advani, the Founder and CEO at CyberKnight. “GITEX is the largest IT show in the region and being present this year is critical for us as well as our participating vendors, to get reconnected in-person t...
AmiViz to Promote its Digital Transformation Tools and Benefits to its Channel Partners at Gitex

AmiViz to Promote its Digital Transformation Tools and Benefits to its Channel Partners at Gitex

GITEX, News
The Middle East region’s first enterprise B2B marketplace to demonstrate the ease of doing business and showcase Cybersecurity technology from more than 20 leading names in the industry AmiViz, the Middle East region’s first enterprise B2B marketplace today announced its participation in GITEX 2021, where it will be showcasing the power of the B2B platform and demonstrate the key features of its Collaboration too via the new mobile app or Web Portal that will revolutionize the channel business in the Middle East. The marketplace is one of the many features of Amiviz Platform that has attracted a wide range of vendors, since it was launched earlier this year. And, today it has a wide array of cybersecurity representation comprising of 35 + vendor technologies.  These solutions a...
Group-IB Partners with Spire Solutions to Bolster Middle East’s Cyber Environment

Group-IB Partners with Spire Solutions to Bolster Middle East’s Cyber Environment

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One of the leading solution providers dedicated to detecting and preventing cyberattacks, identifying online fraud, investigating high-tech crimes, and intellectual property protection, has signed a partnership agreement with Spire Solutions, the Middle East and Africa region’s leading value-added distributor. The partnership will allow the Middle East region's enterprises, private, and public companies to enhance their cybersecurity posture with Group-IB's ecosystem of innovative threat hunting and intelligence, anti-fraud and digital risk protection solutions and award-winning services. The Middle East and GCC region are home to some of the world's biggest financial and industrial hubs. Naturally, this turns the region into an attractive target for both financially motivated threat a...
GITEX 2021 to Feature Spire Solutions and Emphasize Securing the Middle East & Africa’s Digital Assets

GITEX 2021 to Feature Spire Solutions and Emphasize Securing the Middle East & Africa’s Digital Assets

GITEX, News
Given the rising number of cyber risks and attacks in the region, GITEX 2021 is focusing heavily on cybersecurity this year with the Middle East & Africa’s leading cybersecurity VAD Spire Solutions as one of the main partners from the cybersecurity space. Spire has been the Official Distribution Partner of GISEC (also organized by DWTC) since its inception and this is its first time at GITEX. GITEX 2021 is the world’s most global tech sourcing & learning platform, and TRULY THE BIGGEST TECH SHOW OF THE YEAR. Taking place from October 17-21 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), GITEX will showcase 3000+ companies & 700+ startups to an expected audience of over 50,000 technology professionals. Spire’s main theme for the event will be ‘Securing Middle East & Africa’s ...
Redefining Enterprise Cloud & Network Security: An Exclusive Interview with Farhan Mannan, Head of Sales, Sangfor Middle East

Redefining Enterprise Cloud & Network Security: An Exclusive Interview with Farhan Mannan, Head of Sales, Sangfor Middle East

GITEX, News
Sangfor Technologies provides first-class cloud computing and network security solutions to over 100,000+ customers worldwide, with their global footprint reaching from Asia to North America, Europe, the Middle East & Africa. CyberCentric team had an exclusive session with Farhan Mannan, Head of Sales, Sangfor Middle East focusing on the emerging threat landscape and technologies being developed at Sangfor to counter the latest threat vectors. Farhan has played an integral role in developing the market for Sangfor solutions in the Middle East, North Africa & Pakistan. He is an accomplished business leader with over 20+ years of experience in driving revenue through building and maintaining client relationships. Farhan Mannan Khan CyberCentric: How do you see the c...