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KUWAIT
KUWAIT
Kuwait Oil has installed Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC), a powerful, easy-to-deploy admission
control and compliance enforcement component of the Cisco TrustSec solution.
With comprehensive security features, in-band or out-of-band deployment options, user authentication
tools, bandwidth and traffic filtering controls, Network Admission Control is a comprehensive offering for
controlling and securing networks. It will help Kuwait Oil to implement security; access and compliance
policies through a central management point rather than configure policies throughout the network on
individual devices.
The Cisco Annual Security Report 2015 notes that malware encounters are on the rise in the energy, oil
and gas sectors. Maintaining network security and operational efficiency in today’s distributed enterprise
networks demands new technology.
SAUDI
ARABIA
SAUDI ARABIA
In line with its ongoing success and expansion in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh International Catering
Corp., the developmental licensee for the McDonald’s Corporation in the Central, Eastern, and
Northern regions of Saudi Arabia, has invested in a new data centre fitted with state-of-the-art
connectivity infrastructure from Reichle & De-Massari (R&M).
This Riyadh-based data centre will serve as the IT operations hub for over 130 food outlets across
the Kingdom and will host applications that are vital to services offered to the quick service
restaurant giant’s customers and employees in the country.
According to Waleed Naseer F. Al Saud, VP, Business Support, at Riyadh International Catering
Corp (RICC), the data centre is the ‘brain’ of the organisation’s IT infrastructure and is critical to
delivering applications such as email exchange, ERP, reports, data base, web applications, digital
signage, and Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB).
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