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Security budgets to prioritise detection over prevention

The cyber domain is one in which things can change in the blink of an eye. Inadequate response measures can be extremely costly to a company and have long-term consequences. The region’s rapid digitisation and t...

Six big challenges facing the security industry in 2017

Attacks and defences adapt and evolve in a continuing dance. As a new technique is developed, its effectiveness increases rapidly until it is ready for deployment. Once deployed, broad exposure to real-world...

Internal security policies and protocols must be enforceable

At the end of last month it was reported that names and telephone numbers of suspects in terrorism probes carried out by the EU police agency, Europol, had been posted online by accident. The Hague-based agency, which...

FireEye discovers recent wave of attacks targeting the GCC

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, recently discovered a wave of attacks targeting the GCC states. In 2012, a suspected Iranian hacker group called the “Cutting Sword of Justice” used malware known as Shamoon – o...

Blurred lines between state sponsored & ‘commercial’ cybercrime

Following a hack of its Central Bank, Russia is believed to have lost $31 million, which is an amount less than the hackers initially targeted, according to media reports on December 2, 2016. Harshul Joshi, Senior V...

Saudi hacks and the case for endpoint detection & response

As reported by Bloomberg and others on Thursday, hackers successfully launched an attack against Saudi Arabian government agencies, including the General Authority of Civil Aviation, the government agency that manages...

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