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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....

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...