Arafat-Yousef

Challenges for IT network in making remote collaboration a reality

The pandemic of 2020 has made the concept of remote teams and remote work collaboration a reality. Previously used by digitally mature and advanced organisations, like high-tech companies, the requirement of enabling mob...

Marc-Solomon

Extended Detection and Response is gaining traction by expanding its approach

In some of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world, most industry analysts and other security experts are talking about the emergence of Extended Detection and Response, XDR, solutions. Gartner defines XDR as so...

Jamal-Saleh-and-Mohammed-Darwish-Azad

In a first, UAE banks participate in a simulation drill to test cyber resilience

In a first-of-its-kind exercise in the UAE, Central Bank of the UAE, CBUAE, and UAE Banks Federation, UBF, in collaboration with KPMG Lower Gulf conducted a cyber war gaming exercise, a simulation drill designed to test ...

Data-Privacy

Breaches in 2021 are poised to expose more data than ever, Acronis research

Acronis has issued a warning that, based on their research of recent cyberattack trends and existing business practices, organisations around the world currently face a global threat to data privacy and security. The com...

Chris-Triolo

Ponemon Institute, FireEye report reveals worsening RoI of SOC investments

FireEye has released the Second Annual Study on the Economics of Security Operations Centres: What is the True Cost for Effective Results? report from Ponemon Institute. The report finds that organisations are spending m...

Selina-Bieber

36% UAE entrepreneurs increased digital marketing activities, GoDaddy 2020 survey

GoDaddy has released the results of its 2020 Entrepreneur Survey, which revealed that small businesses in the UAE are quite agile in adapting to the trying times of 2020. 36% of UAE entrepreneurs have increased their dig...

Niranjan

Growing relevance of good corporate governance in times of crisis

Company boards are facing immense pressure to maximise value in the aftermath of Covid-19 crisis. In these times, relevance of good governance rules is felt more than ever. Niranjan Gidwani, Consultant Director and Forme...

ICAEW

Organisations finding it difficult to keep up staff morale finds ICAEW survey in 50 countries

Most businesses around the world expect working life to be different in the future, a survey by chartered accountancy body ICAEW has found. Based on a survey with chartered accountants from more than 50 countries, the sh...

Brent-Hayward

Is IT spending more time in keeping the lights on than in innovating

MuleSoft, announced findings of The State of Business and IT Innovation report. The global survey of 1,739 line of business employees in organisations with at least 250 employees revealed only 37% of organisations defini...

Peter-Garney

How the world navigated the greatest contraction since 1930s

In a rollercoaster year that surprised analysts and market participants alike, US technology companies attracted the highest trading volumes among Saxo Bank investors in the UAE and around the world in 2020. The strict l...