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karim

How to forge resilient supply chains

Flexibility is in, dependence on one region or country is out, say Karim Shariff, Partner at Bain & Company Middle East, Sri Rajan, Partner at Bain & Company San Francisco, Joshua Hinkel and Partner at ...

Rajesh-Ganesan

Will the power of the cloud supersede that of the nation?

Due to increasing power of hyper scalars, states within big countries could have their own regulations, and hence businesses should be aware of this. With the accelerated cloud adoption, it is inevitable that g...

Mohammed-AbuKhater

Click farms, 5G architecture, open banking are key trends

Attackers embracing click farms, deploying a horizontal 5G architecture with layers, and open banking to share customer data, are kye trends ahead. How do you make sense of 2020? Suffice to say, it has been an ...

Don-MacLennan

Barracuda research reveals evolving tactics attackers use to trick victims

Barracuda has released a new report with key findings about the ways cybercriminals are adapting quickly to current events and new tactics. The latest report, titled Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends Vol. ...

Sergey-Martsynkyan

Kaspersky finds timely software updates can cut data breach costs in half

According to a recent Kaspersky report, How businesses can minimise the cost of a data breach, enterprises with outdated technology can lose 16% more money in the META region when they suffer a data breach comp...

market-analysis

MarketsandMarkets forecasts ME cybersecurity market to be worth $29.9B by 2025

According to the new market research report Middle East Cybersecurity Market published by MarketsandMarkets, the Middle East cybersecurity pre-Covid-19 market size is projected to grow from $16.1 billion in 202...

Adam-Palmer

Pandemic has triggered review of global cybersecurity laws

Certifications under consideration in 2021 include EU Common Criteria for critical infrastructure, cloud services, artificial intelligence, and 5G. The expanded threat landscape of cloud-based assets along with...

Danny-Allan

Recurring IT purchases including hardware to be a priority

Hardware should be refreshed every three years, and if the pandemic halted attention to hardware, it is fair to say that will make its way to the top. Despite the economic turbulence brought on by the pandemic ...

Majd-Sinan

Securing digital transformation is the primary pain point

In a survey, 79% wanted to learn about digital transformation and cloud security, threat and vulnerability research 62%, and risk and compliance 49%. In 2021, as many enterprises will still work remotely or in ...

George-Brough

Advantages of cloud are beginning to outweigh migration efforts

This means not only a shift towards IaaS, PaaS, but also the wider adoption of SaaS ERP offerings, such as those from Oracle, SAP and others, observes George Brough, COO and Co-Founder, Evolvant. 2020 saw a sud...