Selina Bieber, General Manager, Turkey and MENA, GoDaddy.

50%+ UAE businesses to enhance online presence and sales activity in 2022 finds GoDaddy

Overall outlook for a post-COVID period is positive 65% of UAE entrepreneurs surveyed believe they will emerge stronger than before GoDaddy announced results of its MENA Survey 2021 where nearly half of UAE bus...

Kim Grauer, Director of Research at Chainalysis.

Cryptocurrency laundered by cybercriminals increased 30% YoY reaching $8.6B finds Chainalysis

Following significant growth of both legitimate and illicit cryptocurrency activity in 2021, new research by Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, has revealed that the amount of cryptocurrency laundered b...

Mena Migally, Regional Vice President, META at Riverbed.

Slow running systems impacting employee job satisfaction in financial services finds Riverbed Aternity

Riverbed | Aternity unveils that nearly half (42%) of all IT decision makers (ITDMs) and 38% of business decision makers (BDMs) in the Financial Services sector believe that over 50% of their workforce will rem...

PC malware attacks directed at corporate users, 2018–2021.

According to Kaspersky’s financial cyberthreats report 2021 attacks are increasingly corporate

In 2021, the financial threats landscape witnessed positive changes with the overall number of users affected by malware reduced significantly, including a 35% drop in PC malware. Still, financial organizations...

Gartner Forecasts MENA End-User Spending on Security and Risk Management to Grow 11.2% in 2022

Gartner forecasts regional cloud security will have highest growth at 33+% followed by data security

End-user spending on security and risk management in the Middle East and North Africa region is forecast to total $2.6 billion in 2022, an increase of 11.2% from 2021, according to Gartner. “Cyber-attacks have ...

Dubai Waste Management Centre in Warsan, world’s largest energy project reaches 62% completion

Dubai Waste Management Centre in Warsan, world’s largest energy project reaches 62% completion

Dubai Municipality announced that the construction of the Dubai Waste Management Centre in Warsan, the world’s largest and most efficient energy project of its kind, is now 62% complete. The project will contri...

Abu Dhabi Waste Management using IoT at Al Dhafra recycling plant for asset management

Abu Dhabi Waste Management using IoT at Al Dhafra recycling plant for asset management

Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center – Tadweer announced the application of Internet of Things technology at the construction and demolition waste recycling station in the Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi. This step,...

EDGE’s Al Jasoor releases Rabdan 8×8 infantry fighting vehicle in Saudi Arabia

EDGE’s Al Jasoor releases Rabdan 8×8 infantry fighting vehicle in Saudi Arabia

EDGE entity AL JASOOR, the UAE’s armoured vehicle specialist, unveiled a new variant of its Rabdan 8×8 infantry fighting vehicle – the Rabdan ambulance – on the first day of the World Defense Show held in Riyad...

Ceiling is point of action in smart building

Ceiling is point of action in smart building

The push for office buildings to become smarter poses several challenges for IT and facility managers on how to achieve that. The nervous system of a smart building is essentially a network. Careful planning is...

Gary Wong, Industry Principal, Global Infrastructure and Water, AVEVA

Digital technologies will power the shift to Infrastructure 4.0

US President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act has been seen as an economic response to the coronavirus pandemic, but more importantly, it will also improve Americans’ lives. The law, and its ...