To make decisions more quickly and accurately, enterprises are increasingly turning to Machine Learning, arguably today’s most practical application of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machine Learning is a type of AI that allows software applications to become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine Learning algorithms use historical data as […]
Aamir Lakhani, Cybersecurity Researcher for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, speaks to us about ransomware and what businesses can implement to fight against attacks. If the growth of ransomware attacks in 2022 indicates what the future holds, security teams everywhere should expect to see this attack vector become even more popular in 2023. In the first half […]
Mohamad Rizk, Regional Director, Middle East and CIS at Veeam Software, speaks to us about containers, Kubernetes environments and how these are driving innovation across the Middle East. Container use in enterprises is exploding across the globe. Kubernetes, a platform for orchestrating containers, is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates deploying, managing and scaling […]
The global digital economy is in full velocity mode, embracing the return of one of the world’s largest, most inclusive tech and start-up events, which opens next month in Dubai with record capacity, its continued expansion fuelling the installation of three additional sold-out halls at the Dubai World Trade Centre. GITEX GLOBAL 2022 will take […]
Record-breaking heat waves are making headlines and straining economies around the globe, with no signs of cooling down in the immediate future. Beyond the impact on human lives, extreme heat is taking a major toll on data centre operations and infrastructure, from outages and disruptions at data centres in the UK, to reduced production at […]
As many as 22.91 million people from all over the globe registered their interest in getting Dubai Police’s first collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which was released by the Dubai Police General Command during the second quarter of 2022. Brigadier Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi, Director of the General Department of Artificial Intelligence at Dubai Police, […]
The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has notably changed since the COVID-19 pandemic – arguably the biggest catalyst for such a change as people transitioned to remote working. The widening attack surface has become a major challenge for CISOs, causing an increased level of responsibility like never before. This has inevitably affected […]
Bashar Bashaireh, Managing Director, Middle East and Turkey, Cloudflare, outlines how the company is developing its business in the region and cementing partner alliances as it looks to cement its technology solutions and cloud offerings to customers. Briefly give us an overview of your career in the technology industry. I join Cloudflare with over two […]
Hotel providers continually strive to offer more seamless and secure experiences to their guests and cybersecurity undoubtedly plays a big part in this. Here we take a look at why Germain Hotels has made Canary Technologies’ digital credit card authorisation solution the standard across all its properties, as well as how Jumeirah Hotel Group is […]
Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has launched the Kao Academy – an industry-first science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) resource, designed to engage primary and early secondary school-aged children with the purpose and role of a data centre. Created in collaboration with Cambridge […]
A Disaster Recovery plan (DRP) is a documented, structured approach that describes how an organisation can quickly resume work after an unplanned incident. A DRP is an essential part of a Business Continuity plan (BCP). It is applied to the aspects of an organisation that depend on a functioning IT infrastructure. A DRP aims to […]
The annual World Password Day raises awareness of the importance of having robust and resilient password hygiene practices in place. We hear from various industry experts who discuss best practices for password security. Cian Heasley, Security Consultant at Adarma: “It’s common for people to resort to simple, easy to remember passwords reused across most, if […]
