NEWS
UAE
Al Ansari help Sri Lankan Airlines
Customers Take to the Air
Al Ansari Exchange, the UAE-based
foreign exchange and worldwide money
transfer company, has recently signed an
agreement with SriLankan Airlines, the
national carrier of Sri Lanka. According to
the terms of the agreement, SriLankan
Airlines customers will now be able to
make payments through more than 170
UAE-wide Al Ansari Exchange branches.
The service will be available during the
second quarter of this year onwards.
Rashed Ali Al Ansari, General Manager
of Al Ansari Exchange, said: “In line
with our efforts to enter into corporate
partnerships that add value to our
clients, we have recently collaborated
with the SriLankan Airlines, the national
airlines of Sri Lanka. The deal will enable
all customers of the airline to process
their payments for tickets booked over
the phone or via the airline’s website
from any of the Al Ansari Exchange
branches across the UAE. The extended
convenience will also save time and
effort for SriLankan passengers.”
The signing follows the continuous
growth enjoyed by SriLankan Airlines,
which is attributed to its equally vibrant
tourism industry—ably positioning Sri
Lanka as a key tourist destination. Aside
from the Sri Lankan travelers, recent
figures show that the national carrier
has serviced more than 45,000 Indian
passengers per year, followed by 36,000
Bangladeshis and around 15,000 British,
European and Americans. SriLankan
Airlines also ferry around 10,000 UAE
nationals and 8,000 Indonesian and
Filipino passengers per annum.
“SriLankan Airlines is pleased to seal a
partnership deal with a reputed foreign
exchange service provider such as Al
Ansari Exchange, allowing us to serve
our customers in the UAE with enhanced
convenience. We always strive to ensure a
seamless and hassle-free travel experience
for our passengers and we will continue to
enter into strategic partnerships through
which we can reach to a wider customer
base across the world,” concluded Siva
Ramachandran, Chief Commercial Officer,
SriLankan Airlines.
SOPHOS retain Magic Quadrant EPP Leader Position
Gartner has once again positioned Sophos as
a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Endpoint Protection Platforms1 (EPP). Sophos
has held a Leader position in this report since
2007.
According to the latest report, the next wave
of cyber-threats will be fileless. “Advanced
attackers have been exploiting script-based attacks for years.
Common Windows utilities, such as the command line interface,
PowerShell, Perl, Visual Basic, Nmap and Windows Credential
Editor, can be exploited to compromise machines without
dropping any executable files, evading all traditional forms of
malicious file detection.” In response to this, Gartner recommends
that “EPP buyers should look for vendors that focus on memory
exploit protection, script analysis and behavior indicators of
compromise. Ultimately, we [Gartner] believe that vendors that
focus on detecting behavior indicative of attacker tradecraft (that
is, tools, tactics and techniques) will be the most effective.”
ransomware capabilities with root cause analysis to run along-
side and complement existing endpoint protection products,” said
Dan Schiappa, senior vice president and general manager of the
endpoint and network security groups at Sophos. “We believe that
our continued placement as a Leader in this highly competitive
market reflects our ability to continually innovate and deliver
quality products in response to the changing threat landscape.
Not only have our products been proven in customer deployments
worldwide but they are also assessed by independent third party
testing to demonstrate their effectiveness against the threats that
Gartner cautions are on the rise.”
Schiappa continued, “Sophos believes that the only way to
successfully protect against the growth of sophisticated threats
is to use an ensemble of products that work together and share
threat and security status for faster detection and more immediate
response. This is the core tenant of our synchronized security
strategy. It is only by taking a new ‘best of breed system’ approach
to close the gaps that exist in the traditional multi-vendor single
product deployments that companies will more effectively protect
“For the last several years Sophos has built products that integrate their critical data assets. Today we include network security,
exploit prevention, behavior analytics and pre-execution heuristics. endpoint security and encryption products in this synchronized
The launch of Intercept X added signatureless anti-exploit and anti- security strategy and we will continue to expand its capabilities.”
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