The financial services sector is falling behind other industries when it comes to bridging the gap between the new technologies they have rapidly introduced to deal with COVID-19 pandemic, and the security measures required to protect them, according to research from Veritas Technologies.Read More…
Cryptographers have long recognized that quantum computers could break existing cryptographic systems to secure data, financial systems, and the Internet. This has invigorated a wide-ranging effort to discover, analyze, and test various alternative cryptographic systems resistant to quantum computing attacks.Read More…
RFID, a wireless technology that is used in a variety of businesses, from personnel identification, contactless card transactions, to tracking goods from retail apparel to manufacturing parts, etc., proves itself to be a resilient industry during COVID-19.Read More…
As the world enters the third calendar year of the COVID-19 pandemic, small and micro businesses (SMBs) the world over are truly back to business. A new Visa research study released today, the “Visa Back to Business Global Study – 2022 SMB Outlook,” found that 94% of consumers in theRead More…
Check Point Research (CPR) is sharing statistics of increases in cyber attacks on organizations in 2021. Last year, CPR saw a 71% increase in cyber attacks per week on corporate networks compared to 2020 in the UAE, and a 50 % increase worldwide.Read More…
Alteryx today unveils new findings showing that the Gulf is uniquely placed to drive innovation post the pandemic. A staggering 50% of employees surveyed are now able to automate their day-to-day tasks, with 58% able to produce faster results through the use of analytics technology compared to five years ago.Read More…
A recent study, commissioned by Tenable and conducted by Forrester Consulting, has highlighted the risks introduced from employees when working remotely. The data is drawn from ‘Beyond Boundaries: The Future of Cybersecurity in the New World of Work,’ a commissioned study of more than 1,300 security leaders, business executives andRead More…
By 2023, at least 85% of governments without a total experience (TX) strategy will fail to successfully transform government services, according to Gartner. Governments that continue to focus on citizen and employee experience initiatives separately will miss out on essential synergies to effectively transform their services.Read More…
Trend Micro today published the Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2022: Toward a New Momentum that states that organizations in the region will emerge more alert and better prepared in 2022 thanks to a comprehensive, proactive, cloud-first approach for mitigating cyber risks.Read More…
Companies in the Middle East are showing varying levels of adoption of digital technologies such as cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT), according to new research from Accenture and Microsoft. The overwhelming majority of enterprises (87%) expect 5G to significantly impact their business, with 61%Read More…
With COVID-19 accelerating the shift to digital services and contactless experiences, 84% of UAE businesses say that mobile apps are now a ‘must’ to stay relevant to their customers. This according to findings from the latest research “State of Mobile App Strategies in the Middle East”, conducted by 451 Research,Read More…
Veritas Technologies has today unveiled research finding that office workers in the UAE are not always quick to admit their errors when losing data from cloud-based applications, such as Microsoft Office 365, which they have been asked to adopt in the wake of the COVID pandemic. As a result, theirRead More…
