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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...

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...

Together, the companies will give teams in the Middle East & Africa and India simplicity, flexibility, and control over their security and observability data. Dubai, UAE | San Francisco, USA | Thursday, September 30, 2021: Regions such as the Middle East & Africa and India are witnessing an enormous growth in data. The growth comes from various factors, including digital-driven remote working due to the current pandemic, a shift to zero trust security, and wider acceptance of smart technologies, cloud, and microservices architectures. Data observability has become essential, but most popular tools aren’t able to cater to companies’ present-day needs. To solve current and emerging challenges around data, leading observability pipeline company Cribl and MEA region’s top value-...

The Gartner research suggests that AI will have a significant impact on malware detection for the next 5-8 years.  Gartner focused on dividing their research into subgroups: endpoints, performance monitoring, modeling, encryption, ransomware, and code analysis. Based on this research and analysis of hundreds of ransomware/malware incident response service customers, Sangfor has released a detailed whitepaper that explains how to combat weaponized AI used in new malware with purpose-built AI models looking for specific small non-normal or suspicious behavior across magnitudes of activity over large periods of time. If you want to download Gartner's Whitepaper Click Here.

For anyone related to Cyber Security, the month of October has great significance as it is globally observed as Cyber Security Awareness Month. Organizations from different sectors conduct various activities to highlight the role of end-user awareness so they can play an active role in protecting the digital assets of an organization. With the hackers now targeting the end-users, the need for awareness & empowerment for end-users has become critical. Ahead of this Cyber Security Awareness Month, PhishRod & Protiviti have joined hands to drive the Cyber Security Awareness Summit to be held on 15th September 2021. The virtual event will focus on topics such as Phishing Readiness, End-User Behavior Analysis, Automation of Cyber Security Awareness Programs, Developing Phishing Inci...