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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....

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, 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, 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 ...

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...

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...