{"id":33494,"date":"2019-02-13T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=33494"},"modified":"2023-10-02T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:31:55","slug":"sectigo-to-help-middle-east-companies-tackle-cyberthreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2019\/02\/13\/sectigo-to-help-middle-east-companies-tackle-cyberthreats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sectigo to help Middle East companies tackle cyberthreats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sectigo.com\/\">Sectigo<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Comodo CA), a leading commercial Certificate Authority and a leader in web security solutions, has announced expansion into the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprises in Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates, will have the opportunity to advance their digital identity strategies using Sectigo web security solutions in combination with best-practice consulting\u00a0services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/victor-schooling-280761b\/\">Victor Schooling<\/a>, Regional Director, Middle East and Africa,\u00a0Sectigo, said: \u201cBusiness email compromise (BEC) attacks are on the rise. In 2018, spoofing or BEC attacks rose 250% and spear-phishing attacks in companies saw a 70% increase (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/technology-and-iiot\/cyberattacks-skyrocketed-2018-are-you-ready-2019\">IndustryWeek)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganisations throughout the Gulf States and Jordan are eager for email encryption and digital signing solutions that minimise these and other risks. We\u2019ve chosen our initial Middle East partners for their excellent reputations and commitment to addressing important cybersecurity challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sectigo solutions will be available in the Middle East through market-leading partners, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/broadbits.com\/\">BroadBITS<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.checksumis.com\/\">Checksum Consultancy Co.,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hayyan.com.jo\/\">Hayyan Horizons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprises will have access to the company\u2019s S<a href=\"https:\/\/sectigo.com\/products\/signing-certificates\/email-smime-certificate\">ecure Email Certificates (S\/MIME)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sectigo.com\/products\/management-solutions\/private-ca\">Private CA<\/a> and Certificate Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sectigo\u00a0(formerly Comodo CA), a leading commercial Certificate Authority and a leader in web security solutions, has announced expansion into the Middle East. Enterprises in Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates, will have the opportunity to advance their digital identity strategies using Sectigo web security solutions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4115,15963,809,3629,79],"tags":[458,7921,7920,420,1132,1448,233,562,431,231,7919,184,4269,7922],"class_list":["post-33494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-technology","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-kuwait","category-more-news","category-newsletter","category-used","tag-bahrain","tag-certificate-authority","tag-comodo-ca","tag-dubai","tag-jordan","tag-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia","tag-kuwait","tag-middle-east","tag-oman","tag-qatar","tag-sectigo","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-web-security"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494","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=33494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33588,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33494\/revisions\/33588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}