ValueMentor has announced the appointment of Paul Mathew to the newly created position of CEO-Middle East. The cyber security consulting & services company has announced the establishment of a new executive/CXO position within the organisation, the CEO-Middle East (Chief Executive Officer – Middle East). This strategic move reflects ValueMentor’s commitmentRead More…
OPSWAT, a provider of critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity solutions, has reiterated its commitment to helping critical infrastructure organizations in the region shore up their perimeter defenses against a threat landscape that shows an increasing interest in OT/ICS. OPSWAT’s commitment to the region comes on the back of significant growthRead More…
The global video games market is poised to grow impressively in the upcoming years, with expectations of a robust annual growth rate of 9.3% between 2023 and 2028. This projected expansion underscores the ever-increasing popularity of video games as a form of entertainment across the world. The global video games marketRead More…
Sophos has released a report, titled “CryptoGuard: An Asymmetric Approach to the Ransomware Battle,” which found that some of the most prolific and active ransomware groups, including Akira, ALPHV/BlackCat, LockBit, Royal, Black Basta, are deliberately switching on remote encryption for their attacks. In remote encryption attacks, also known as remote ransomware, adversaries leverage a compromisedRead More…
HID will showcase its latest innovations in physical access control and secure identity issuance at Intersec Dubai, Jan. 16–18, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, at Booth S3-D17. HID’s trusted identities solutions showcased at the booth will include: Access control in a mobile-first world: HID Mobile AccessTechnology — a pioneeringRead More…
LogRhythm has announced its 7th consecutive quarterly release. This announcement comes on the heels of over 200 new features released throughout 2023 across the company’s self-hosted and cloud-native SaaS SIEM platforms, LogRhythm SIEM and LogRhythm Axon.Read More…
Email and collaboration security company Mimecast has announced its acquisition of Elevate Security, a provider of human risk management solutions. The acquisition strengthens Mimecast’s offerings by providing proactive insights and deeper visibility into human behaviors and risk, helping customers better protect the digital workplace. Financial terms of the deal were notRead More…
Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence team has over the past two years uncovered almost 40,000 dark web posts about the sale of internal corporate information. These posts – created by cybercriminals – are used to buy, sell, or distribute data stolen from various companies through cyberattacks. The number of posts offeringRead More…
Qualys has released new research from the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), delving into some of the critical vulnerabilities in 2023 and their impact on organisations. 26,447 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2023, eclipsing the total number of vulnerabilities disclosed in 2022 by over 1,500 CVEs. “While this is alarming and continues theRead More…
AmiViz has formed a strategic partnership with Asimily to provide high-quality, end-to-end security solutions for IoT, Industrial IoT and IoMT devices, and to address the increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats businesses in the Middle East face today.Read More…
SentinelOne has agreed to acquire PingSafe. The acquisition of PingSafe’s cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), when combined with SentinelOne’s cloud workload security and cloud data security capabilities, is expected to provide companies with a fully integrated platform that drives better coverage, hygiene and automation across their entire cloud footprint. The acquisitionRead More…
ESET Research has discovered a cluster of malicious Python projects being distributed via PyPI, the official Python (programming language) package repository. The threat targets both Windows and Linux systems and usually delivers a custom backdoor with cyberespionage capabilities.Read More…
