NEWS
SANS Institute
delivers first
cybersecurity
training event
in Oman
Oman Data Park leverages Dell
Technologies’ strategic expertise
for Digital Transformation
Eng. Maqbool Al
Wahaibi, CEO of
Oman Data Park,
and Havier Haddad,
General Manager
– Gulf at Dell
Technologies, have
signed a MoU
S
ANS Institute, the global leader in
cybersecurity training, has held SANS
Muscat 2019, the company’s first ever
cybersecurity training event to be held in
Oman, at the InterContinental Hotel, Muscat.
The highly subscribed event developed
deep, hands-on skills among cybersecurity
professionals in the country through its
immersion-style training.
Expert SANS instructors helped participants
develop high-level skills in incident handling,
computer crime investigation, hacker tools
workshops, security operations centres,
network security architecture, automation
and continuous security monitoring.
Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, Middle
East and Africa at SANS Institute, said: “It
is our pleasure to roll out our first ever SANS
cybersecurity training event in Muscat. Oman
has some of the best cybersecurity awareness
measures across the government and public
sector institutions in the Arab world. SANS
Institute is proud to host this event in
Muscat and play its part in raising awareness
and competency levels in cybersecurity
techniques and practices among the
cybersecurity professionals in government
organisations, supporting institutions, and
public and private sector organisations.
In-depth, deep dive and hands-on training
programmes such as SANS Muscat 2019,
will help raise the competency levels of in-
country cybersecurity professionals to global
levels. They will be even better prepared to
detect, thwart and remediate sophisticated
and nation state type of threat actors.”
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INTELLIGENTCIO
O
man Data Park (ODP), one of
the Sultanate’s premier IT-
managed services and cloud services
provider, has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with Dell
Technologies, initiating a landmark
project to provide Professional Services
as a Service (PSaaS) to its customers.
This collaboration is a step towards
amplifying Digital Transformation
initiatives across Oman with speed
and efficiency.
The MoU was signed at COMEX
Technology Show by Eng. Maqbool Al
Wahaibi, CEO of Oman Data Park, and
Havier Haddad, General Manager – Gulf
at Dell Technologies, further strengthening
their seven year partnership.
Eng. Maqbool Al Wahaibi, CEO at Oman
Data Park, said: “At ODP, we believe
in providing unparalleled services and
solutions to our valued customers.
With the Fourth Industrial Revolution
changing the course of businesses in
Oman, we feel the need to refresh and
reimagine our offerings. Therefore, we
are pleased to build on our existing
relationship with Dell Technologies and
empower our processes to become
valued certified providers of PSaaS.”
Havier Haddad, General Manager –
Gulf, at Dell Technologies, said: “Digital
Transformation is all about linking people,
process and technology, which ultimately
leads to accelerating innovation and
achieving effective business outcomes.
Hence, we are happy to engage with ODP
as their support and strategic consultant,
and be a part of their step forward in the
journey of helping organisations build a
knowledge-based economy in an agile,
trusted and cost-effective manner.”
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