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GITEX 2021: Forcepoint to Focus on Network Security, Data Protection, and Cloud Security

Published

3 years ago

October 13, 2021

Jawad Toukna, the Director for Regional Sales at the Middle East and North Africa at Forcepoint, speaks about his company’s participation at GITEX 2021

Are you participating in GITEX 2021? If yes, which products and solutions will you be showcasing at GITEX Technology Week?
Forcepoint is participating in GITEX 2021 with two of our key distributor partners, Mindware and Starlink. Throughout GITEX, we will be running demos of all our key solutions. The highlight will be on Forcepoint’s Data-First SASE platform – our unique approach to securing hybrid and rapidly evolving computing environments.

Providing secure network access is only half the battle. Progressive organizations must also address the protection of precious information assets in perimeter-less networking environments. Forcepoint is revolutionizing data security by enabling users to safely access and use data anywhere they work.

Forcepoint’s SASE goes beyond just securing access to the web, cloud, and private applications. We put our industry-leading data protection at the centre of our SASE platform, giving customers unique control over how their data is used even after it is downloaded. We help customers make their people more productive and their business safer.

All products including network security (NGFW and SD-WAN), data protection (DLP, CASB) and cloud security (Secure Web Gateway and Cloud Security Gateway) will be on show.

What are your expectations from the event this year?
It’s good to get back to meeting with customers in person, and we are excited to share Forcepoint’s forthcoming refreshed channel partner strategy as well as demonstrate Data-first SASE. Gartner rightly identifies SASE as a philosophy rather than a single product. Adoption of SASE happens incrementally—addressing immediate business needs first, then expanding to solve other problems over time. During GITEX we’ll be working with enterprises to listen to their needs and requirements and offer consultancy on securing their cloud migration.

What will be your theme of participation at GITEX?
Companies have had to evolve rapidly over the last eighteen months, and the disruption caused by the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation timelines. The shift to a remote workforce essentially changed how employees interact with data, and Forcepoint will be working with customers and prospects at GITEX to address these challenges.

While some workers are returning to offices, hybrid working is a reality that’s here to stay. It’s imperative that companies maintain control of data and ensure that sensitive information is protected: organisations are rethinking their security policies to avoid a potential leak or breach. The industry needs a modern approach to cybersecurity. Forcepoint’s data-first SASE is based on a converged data protection platform, bringing together data protection and secure access to provide a user and data-aware risk/trust model.

How have your regional strategies changed in recent months?
Regardless of their location, enterprises need to react to rapidly evolving hybrid workforces and ever-expanding SaaS applications. The digital transformation the region has gone through in the last year is extraordinary. Prior to COVID-19, only ten percent of workers in the UAE reported working from home one to two days per week, compared to a global average of 62 percent, according to a 2019 survey by International Workplace Group. This means that the trend to transition to the cloud was accelerated, and the network perimeter has truly dissolved.

Recently the head of UAE Government Cyber Security told CNBC that the UAE had seen a 250% increase in cyberattacks in 2020, while data breaches in Middle Eastern countries cost an average of $6M per incident, according to an independent report commissioned by IBM Security. Data is the building block of today’s digitized economy and the opportunities for innovation and malice around it are incalculable.

We see Forcepoint’s data-first SASE strategy as the way forward for organizations in the Middle East and we are investing in the solutions and offerings to support this. Forcepoint recently acquired Cyberinc and Deep Secure – and this is just the beginning of the many investments in the months and years ahead as Forcepoint executes our mission to strategically build, partner, and acquire technologies to innovate the industry’s best-in-class SASE architecture that helps secure and enable our customers’ business.

Forcepoint is providing security for hybrid and rapidly evolving computing environments, with converged security offerings delivering secure network access, protection of precious information assets, and delivery of unified secure access and data protection that spans on-premises, hybrid, and cloud.

Data-first SASE ensures customers can secure data access and usage, by closing down attacks and opening up data use. Today’s reality is that people are working from everywhere, and progressive organizations must address the protection of precious information assets in perimeter-less networking environments.

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GITEX Global 2024 to Showcase Future of Tech with New Editions

Published

1 month ago

August 9, 2024

Edward Frank

With only two months remaining until GITEX Global 2024, the world’s largest tech and start-up event, organisers have revealed a host of new industry programmes, cybersecurity experts, as well keynote speakers from world-leading brands confirmed for this year’s edition, running from 14-18 October at Dubai World Trade Centre.

Here’s the lowdown on what’s new so far in 2024:

GITEX Editions 2024
Aligned with Dubai’s ambition to be the home of 30 start-up unicorns by 2030, GITEX Global 2024 is launching GITEX Editions, the region’s most impactful gathering for fostering strategy, created to accelerate scale and global governance for high-growth companies. The early confirmed speaker line-up includes 8 fast-growing start-ups from 8 countries, 3 backed by the European Innovation Council (EIC).

AI: Fabrizio del Maffeo, Co-Founder, CEO & Board Member, Axelera AI (Netherlands)
An expert in developing Gen AI infrastructure and edge computing. Growing with a purpose of becoming the ‘European NVIDIA’, Axelera AI is backed by Samsung and the EIC. Valued at $500M, GITEX Global will mark its first-ever Middle East presence.

Synthetic Biotech: Dr. Alexander Zhavoronkov, Founder and CEO, InSilico Medicine (Hong Kong)
Leading the biotech company with the world’s fastest-ever IPO and currently valued at $1.5B, he will discuss groundbreaking advancements in AI-driven drug discovery, synthetic biology, and ageing.

Sustainability Biotech: Dr. Mazen Rizk, Founder and CEO, Infinite Roots (Germany)
EU’s largest mycelium-biotech investment, building next-generation sustainable alternative proteins. A Series B-funded company backed by the EIC.

Quantum Deeptech: Dr. Joseph Fitzsimons, Founder and CEO, Horizon Quantum Computing (Singapore)
Singapore’s biggest Quantum startup, backed by SG Innovate, Sequoia and Tencent.

Semiconductor Deeptech: Dr. Sunghyun Park, Founder and CEO, Rebellions (South Korea)
Set to become Korea’s first AI Semiconductor Chip Unicorn with a $1.5B value, acquired Sapeon AI.

Auto tech: Svilen Rangelov, Co-Founder and CEO, Dronamics (UK)
World’s first cargo drone airline on a mission to change e-commerce worldwide, part of the EIC scaling club.

Emilio Scervo, Chief Technology Officer and Board Member, Buggati – Rimac (Croatia)
World’s fastest hypercars. Valued at $5 billion, they are the first and fastest-growing Croatian Unicorn.

Semiconductor Supercomputing: Philippe Notton, Founder and CEO, SiPearl (France)
High-performance semiconductor manufacturer for AI interfaces and supercomputing aiming for the technological sovereignty of Europe.

Cybersecurity Conference Programme
GITEX Global 2024 will see Cybersecurity taking centre stage with true stories from the trenches, AI-driven live hacks and fierce CISO debates. Making their debut at the world’s largest tech event is Chenxi Wang, Managing General Partner of Fortune 500 fund Rain Capital (US), and Ekaterina Serban, Vice President of Privacy and Information Security at Bosch (Germany), the world’s largest automotive and services supplier.

Named as a top international cyber investor in the world by Fortune magazine, Wang will join global VCs and investment partners on stage to address the driving forces behind the rising global interest of businesses to increasingly invest in advanced security solutions and the surge in M&A activity within the cybersecurity sector. On another must-see panel discussion, Serban will take part in the conversation with CISOs and CIOs around corporate board engagement strategies for cybersecurity adoption.

New Industry Experts on Stage in 2024
For the very first time, Michael Spranger, the president of Sony AI Inc. will be addressing delegates from 180 countries at GITEX Global 2024, revealing the latest projects underway at Sony’s strategic research and development organisation.

Also debuting will be Chris Duffey, Futurist & Head of GenStudio, Adobe, USA who co-authored the world’s first book on AI, with AI. Adobe has been highly instrumental in driving Gen AI to help creators.

Isabell Gradert, VP Central Research & Technology for Airbus in Germany, will also be making her first regional appearance at the world’s largest tech and start-up event.

Sponsor Announced: Tech Destination Pakistan
Following its presence in the Pakistan Pavilion in previous GITEX Global editions, Tech Destination Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Software Export Board, has this year been declared the 2024 event’s ‘Tech Destination of the Year’. Shaza Fatima Khawaja, Minister of State for IT & Telecommunication, said of the announcement, “This partnership highlights our commitment to innovation, technology and global collaboration. We look forward to showcasing Pakistan’s brilliant tech talent and tremendous potential in this prestigious platform.”

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ZainTECH Partners with Veeam to Deliver Backup and Disaster Recovery Services

Published

11 months ago

October 31, 2023

Prarthana Mary

ZainTECH, the integrated digital solutions provider of Zain Group, announces a strategic partnership with Veeam Solutions (Veeam). The two companies are set to bring Veeam-powered solutions to market and to build reliable, enterprise-grade Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings.

\Working alongside Veeam, ZainTECH will be able to offer its customers a comprehensive and cost-effective way to scale their backup requirements and data management systems. Veeam’s solutions are provided through strong alliance partnerships and seamless technology integrations with leading cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Cloud, and Google Cloud. The company, which was founded in 2006, offers a complete solution that is simple, flexible, reliable, and powerful to help businesses transform the way they manage data and applications to help ensure availability across cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Commenting on the agreement, Andrew Hanna, CEO of ZainTECH said, “This agreement underscores ZainTECH’s commitment to partnering with the best technology providers in the business to provide our clients with the most advanced array of products and solutions. With Veeam’s remarkable technology portfolio in data backup and recovery, we are confident that this collaboration will not only enrich but elevate our clients’ access to their invaluable digital assets and information.”

Mohamad Rizk, Regional Director of Veeam Solutions commented, “The market for Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) is growing fast; projected to be worth 21$B in 2026. Furthermore, according to the 2023 Veeam Data Protection Trends Report, organizations want to achieve the goal of having 52% of their workloads in the cloud by 2024. This agreement reinforces our commitment to partner with the largest cloud providers in the region. With ZainTech, we will provide our customers with the best DPaaS services in the market while maintaining our promise for Data Security, Data Recovery, and Data Freedom for their Hybrid Cloud environment.”

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#GITEXGLOBAL2023 – Interview with Mohamad Abdallah of Sonicwall

Published

11 months ago

October 29, 2023

Prarthana Mary

We caught up with Mohamad Abdallah, the Regional Director for MEA at Sonicwall. He spoke about his company’s participation at GITEX 2023 and his expectations from the event: