{"id":30653,"date":"2019-12-04T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=30653"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T09:48:45","slug":"dimension-data-launches-its-fifth-business-in-the-mea-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/12\/04\/dimension-data-launches-its-fifth-business-in-the-mea-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimension Data launches its fifth business in the MEA region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dimension Data has launched its fifth business in the MEA region. <em>Dimension Data Security<\/em>, aimed at helping organisations in the region address the challenges of today\u2019s rapidly evolving threat landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMEA\u2019s threat landscape is growing increasingly complex and is driving new and surprising challenges for even the most hardened cybersecurity practitioners, said Tony Walt, Managing Executive for Dimension Data Security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a catch-up\ngame, and threats ranging from DDoS attacks, ransomware, advanced persistent\nthreats, and even cybercrime-as-a-service, are seeing businesses struggling to\nstay ahead and protect themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith this in mind,\nwe are retaining our brand following the NTT integration in other regions\nacross the globe. We currently have four businesses, namely Internet Solutions,\nDimension Data, Britehouse, and Merchants, and we are taking the leap to launch\nthis business focusing specifically on security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says the\nsecurity business is built around four practices namely, consulting, secure\ninfrastructure, secure hybrid cloud, and secure access management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn addition, the\nnew business is introducing a new product development capability to meet market\nrequirements, particularly those we are finding in emerging markets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although security\nprofessionals are all trying to implement the best tools and solutions to\naddress the slew of risks businesses are facing every day, the threat landscape\nis constantly evolving and the evolution of risk needs to be properly, and\nimmediately, addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis means\nredefining how our clients think about risk and encouraging them to respond to\nthe significant increase in attack volume with security measures that will\nactually prove effective in today\u2019s threat environment,\u201d added Walt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis will start when\nredefining how our customers view risk and encouraging them to respond to the\ntremendous increase in attack volumes, as well as the growing complexity of\nthreats, through the application of security measures that will prove effective\nin today\u2019s threat landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRemember, that\neven if most security solutions are proving 99% effective, there is no \u2018silver\nbullet\u2019, and risks are not only evolving rapidly, they are increasing in number\nand sophistication. This means that traditional security measures are no longer\neffective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur new business\nwill address these challenges, and bring clients a holistic, comprehensive\nsolution to address all of their security needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walt says Dimension Data Security will closely work with its customers to firstly, help them define their appetite for risk, and then what it will take to keep that risk at an acceptable level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe understand that\nsecurity needs to be both reactive and proactive, to keep risk in check,\u201d he\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce we have\nidentified where the holes in our customers\u2019 security nets are, we can identify\nthe appropriate tools and services needed to close those holes. This will mean\nproviding them with total visibility into their security posture and\nimplementing the most advanced and comprehensive tools at our disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another important\nrole the new entity will play is helping our clients prepare for the worst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe common maxim\ntoday is that it\u2019s no longer a case of \u2018if\u2019 but of \u2018when\u2019,\u201d said Walt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing attacked has\nbecome an inevitability, so being prepared for the worst is crucial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur services will\nhelp strengthen our clients\u2019 risk levels by continually pinpointing, prioritising\nand mitigating any gaps in security, as well as areas where additional skills\nand training may be needed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe new business\nwill have a wide range of cyber security capabilities and services and will\nhelp our customers navigate the complexity of today\u2019s environments, as well as\nsupport them in their Digital Transformation initiatives while lessening any\nrisk. Ultimately, we want to help customers create an agile and resilient\nsecurity posture across their entire IT environments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimension Data has launched its fifth business in the MEA region. Dimension Data Security, aimed at helping organisations in the region address the challenges of today\u2019s rapidly evolving threat landscape. \u201cMEA\u2019s threat landscape is growing increasingly complex and is driving new and surprising challenges for even the most hardened cybersecurity practitioners, said Tony Walt, Managing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,275,399,262],"tags":[1117,11904,388,1053,389,218,11902,1168,11905,277,11903],"class_list":["post-30653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-more-news","category-used","tag-britehouse","tag-cybercrime-as-a-service","tag-cybersecurity","tag-ddos","tag-digital-transformation","tag-dimension-data","tag-dimension-data-security","tag-internet-solutions","tag-merchants","tag-ransomware","tag-tony-walt"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30653"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30731,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30653\/revisions\/30731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}