Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 23 | Page 103

Taj El Khayat, Gulf, Levant and North Africa Director, F5 Networks F 5 Networks will underscore its growing regional influence in application security and multi-cloud solutions at GITEX. “In a digital-driven economy, applications deliver business services for a variety of access points and locations, opening up new risks and attack vectors – particularly as IT teams extend security and encryption capabilities across cloud, data centre, and hybrid environments,” said Taj El Khayat, Gulf, Levant and North Africa Director, F5 Networks. Among the security solutions on show are F5’s latest additions to the Herculon product family. Herculon SSL Orchestrator™ provides improved insight for the visibility gaps created by the growing use of encryption for application data. With purpose-built hardware for SSL/TLS, the product provides leading cryptographic capabilities, context-aware dynamic service chaining, and native integrations. Herculon SSL Orchestrator can significantly increase performance – and decrease infrastructure costs – across the security stack by eliminating the need for redundant encryption and decryption capabilities. A ‘defence in-depth’ strategy is employed to enhance detection, enforcement, and orchestration with support from a rich ecosystem of security vendors. Location: FEATURE: FEATURE: GITEX F idelis Cybersecurity, a leading provider of products and services for detecting and stopping advanced cyberattacks, will demonstrate how its latest platform, Fidelis Elevate, empowers security teams and raises an organisation’s security posture by providing automated detection and response across both networks and endpoints. “If recent attacks like WannaCry and Petya have taught us anything, it is that traditional security defences are no longer capable of combating modern cyberattacks and protecting organisations’ most sensitive data,” said Jason Mical, Vice President, Endpoint Products, Fidelis Cybersecurity. “Enterprises have evolved with a patchwork of systems strung together that create more complexity than the problems they solve. Security teams without complete visibility across networks and endpoints don’t have the capability to prevent and detect threats, and the automation to maximise resources; which has resulted in enterprises being unable to detect and respond to the cyberthreats facing them today.” Fidelis Elevate offers content-rich network and endpoint visibility to detect both known and unknown threats. Enterprises can utilise its automated detection and response capability to ensure protection from security incidents happens immediately, and historical data is delivered to security analysts for subsequent action. From here, using the platform, the security team is able to triage, investigate, remediate and forensically analyse security incidents to fully protect their enterprise. n Another security highlight is the Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender™, which gives customers a multilayered defence against volumetric and pervasive DDoS attacks by integrating high-performance hardware with the intelligence of offsite cloud scrubbing via F5 Silverline. This hybrid approach improves time to mitigation in scenarios where website and application availability are crucial to customer interactions and profitability. The product can be deployed in-line or in out-of- band mode, and provides comprehensive DDoS coverage through behavioural analytics, sub-second attack mitigation, and visibility into sophisticated application layer attacks. n www.intelligentcio.com Mock-up of Fidelis’ GITEX 2017 stand INTELLIGENTCIO 103