{"id":20152,"date":"2017-10-02T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=20152"},"modified":"2017-10-02T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:00:03","slug":"cyber-security-company-vmware-is-opening-new-office-in-ksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2017\/10\/02\/cyber-security-company-vmware-is-opening-new-office-in-ksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-security company VMware is opening new office in KSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has announced plans to open an office in Riyadh to help organisations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia transform and secure their cyber-operations .<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre Brulard, senior vice president and general manager, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, VMware, said: \u201cVMware is committed to helping organisations through their transformation journeys and we are delighted to be announcing our expanded presence in the region with a new office opening in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Auda, managing director, Middle East and North Africa, VMware, added: \u201cCybersecurity has moved from an IT team discussion to a boardroom discussion, with every employee being responsible for protecting their organisation from cyber-threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaudi organisations are among regional leaders in recognising the importance in delivering end-to-end cybersecurity strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy leveraging security across the cloud, mobility, and data centres, CIOs can embed security in the IT infrastructure, and keep their employees up-to-date on the best practices and methods on how to protect their data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a new office in Riyadh will enable us to better service our customers in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and we look forward to that opening later this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at the IDC CIO Security Summit in Saudi Arabia.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has announced plans to open an office in Riyadh to help organisations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia transform and secure their cyber-operations . Jean-Pierre Brulard, senior vice president and general manager, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, VMware, said: \u201cVMware is committed to helping organisations through their transformation journeys and we are delighted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":20153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,809,791],"tags":[292,138,790,811,277,10,97],"class_list":["post-20152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-more-news","category-ksa","tag-cyber-attacks","tag-cyber-security","tag-ksa","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-security-2","tag-vmware"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}