NEWS
Darkmatter partners with du to enhance
cyber security for UAE enterprises
UAE based DarkMatter and du have
announced a commercial partnership.
DarkMatter, the international
cyber security firm headquartered
in the UAE, and UAE-based
telecommunications service provider
du, have announced the partnership
to offer enhanced cyber security
products and services to enterprises
across the country.
The commercial partnership –
the first of its kind in the UAE –
complements du’s current suite
of managed service products and
services for its enterprise customers
demanding higher levels of security.
Through the partnership, DarkMatter
will provide its expertise to du’s
extensive business customer base.
Fahad AlHassawi, Chief Commercial
Officer, du, said: “With the evolving
landscape in cyber security, it has
become even more important to
safeguard the business interests
of our customers. This futuristic
partnership expands the horizons and
offers our current and future business
customers the combined expertise
of du and DarkMatter in security and
compliance solutions.”
The strategic partnership comes with
significant long-term opportunities
for du and DarkMatter. The
companies will work together to
provide a range of service offerings,
which include compliance and
compromise assessments, mobile and
web application assessments, and
penetration assessments.
Faisal Al Bannai, Founder and CEO
of DarkMatter, said: “DarkMatter is
working to raise the level of cyber
resilience across sectors and through
this partnership we will be able to
provide an enhanced level of security
and confidence to du’s enterprise
customers in the UAE.”
Megha Kumar, IDC’s Research
Director for the Middle East, Africa,
and Turkey, said: “Partnerships in the
shape of the one just revealed by du
and DarkMatter are critical given the
challenges UAE-based organisations
face when looking to source advanced
cyber security skills.”
eHosting Datafort opens New Cyber
Defense Centre in Dubai
eHosting DataFort (eHDF), the region’s
leading Managed Hosting and Cloud
infrastructure services provider, has
launched its Cyber Defense Centre (CDC)
in Dubai Internet City.
The CDC comes at a crucial time when
organisations in the Middle East are
faced with persistent security threats.
“eHDF’s CDC deploys advanced security
intelligence and automation tools to
help identify threats more quickly and
with greater accuracy and precision.
Our CDC teams deliver threat hunting
services using a combination of Threat
Intelligence and end point technologies
that allow us to detect more complex
threats that may be dormant in a
customer’s environment,” said, Yasser
Zeineldin, CEO, eHosting DataFort.
The CDC services assist customers in
the complete security life cycle, which
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starts with log collection, network
access control, advanced sandboxing,
remediation and incident response.
Incident management offers a single
dashboard of a customer’s security
posture, attacks, and incidents. The
unique OPEX based approach allows
eHDF to pass on tangible cost benefits
to customers planning to enhance their
security posture. Replacing the need for
capital investments, through eHDF’s,
OPEX model, customers eliminate
the need for lengthy evaluation and
procurement cycles. protection of their information assets
regardless of their location.
Another key component of the CDC is to
focus on customers having distributed
workloads which could be hosted either
On-premise, Public Cloud or a locally
hosted Data Centre. In these situations,
it is able to provide customers with end-
to-end visibility of their infrastructure and eHDF recently launched Real Time Threat
Monitoring (RTTM) services which collects
and directs customer data to the Security
Information and Event Management
(SIEM) solution. The data is analysed by
experts, and customers are provided with
remedial solutions.
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