Fifty percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) will adopt human centric design to reduce cybersecurity operational friction; large enterprises will focus on implementing zero-trust programs; and half of cybersecurity leaders will have unsuccessfully tried to use cyber risk quantification to drive decision making, according to the top cybersecurity predictions revealed by Gartner. “There’s no […]
Vivotek has completed integration of AI into its new products, allowing the company to build more comprehensive AI security solutions for users. With rich industry experience and capabilities accumulated over 23 years, Vivotek has gradually showcased its achievements in the global market and continued to introduce edge computing to front-end cameras and back-end systems in […]
Jan Lindström, SVP Finance at Securitas has decided to step down from his role as of June 7 and will no longer be a member of Group Management. Jan will continue within Securitas full-time, supporting the finance team. “On behalf of everyone in Securitas, I would like to sincerely thank Jan for his fine leadership […]
Starlink has announced a key milestone in its ongoing partnership with F5, a market leader in multi-cloud application services and security. The two companies have agreed to expand their existing partnership to include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Bahrain. Starlink can now provide coverage for F5’s solution portfolio across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, […]
Freshworks has announced new GPT-based conversational enhancements to Freshworks’ natively-built AI powered assistant, Freddy. Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and underlying large language models, the latest generative AI capabilities of Freddy help a wide range of customer-facing professionals work faster, smarter, and more effectively. Customer service agents respond quickly to customers and employees in the right tone, […]
With threat actors finding new and innovative ways to launch cyberattacks, Saudi Arabia remains one of the most targeted countries in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, accounting for two-thirds of the cases according to IBM Security’s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. The 2023 report highlights that at 40% the deployment of backdoors was […]
Sophos has released new research on how the cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3, the language model behind the now well-known ChatGPT framework, as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers. The latest report, “Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses,” details projects developed by Sophos X-Ops using GPT-3’s large language models to simplify the search for […]
Dell Technologies has announcing new security services and solutions to help organizations protect against threats, respond to attacks and secure their devices, systems and clouds. Seventy-two percent of IT business leaders and professionals believe the changing working world exposes their organization to even greater risk. The highly distributed IT environment creates new opportunities for cybercriminals […]
Cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint has released research which shows that only 65% of the top 20 retailers in the Middle East have implemented the minimum level of DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) protection, meaning 35% are taking no steps to prevent malicious actors spoofing their domain. Worryingly, only 6 out of the […]
ESET researchers have discovered dozens of copycat Telegram and WhatsApp websites targeting mainly Android and Windows users with trojanized versions of these instant messaging apps. Most of the malicious apps we identified are clippers
