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GITEX Global 2022: Check Point Software Technologies to Throw the Spotlight on its Infinity Portfolio of Solutions

Published

2 years ago

September 21, 2022

Ram Narayanan, the Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, Middle East, speaks about his company’s participation at GITEX Global 2022

Are you participating in GITEX Global 2022? If yes, which products and solutions will you be showcasing at the event?
Check Point Software is committed to supporting and being part of global platforms such as GITEX to showcase expertise and reach out to our customers. Check Point Software will be present at GITEX through our channel partners and will be exhibiting in Hall no 1 and Hall no 5. At GITEX Technology Week, Check Point Software will be focusing on its Infinity portfolio of solutions and educating attendees on the current threat landscape. Check Point Infinity portfolio of products focuses on those technologies and capabilities that will provide uncompromised security. Check Point Software has taken over 80 products and technologies all managed by Check Point Infinity-Vision, the industry’s leading unified security management solution, and organized them into three main pillars:

Check Point Harmony for secure users and access,
Check Point CloudGuard to automatically secure clouds environments and
Check Point Quantum to protect network perimeters and datacenters, including Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security

Check Point Software will also be showcasing the recently launched Check Point Horizon – the industry-leading prevention-focused suite of security operations solutions and services that provides XDR/XPR, MDR/MPR, and events management solutions. Horizon’s prevention-first approach offers complete coverage for the network, endpoints, cloud, email, IoT, and mobile devices – all from one pane of glass. It enables SOC analysts to proactively prevent, monitor, detect, investigate, hunt, respond, remediate attacks, and improve defenses to prevent future attacks, and to gain accurate prevention against the most advanced attacks through the power of ThreatCloud, the brain behind all of Check Point’s products.

What are your expectations from the event this year?
The last couple of years has been far from ordinary, both for cybersecurity and business in general. Every year, certain threats grow rapidly as cybercriminals focus their efforts on a particularly effective or lucrative attack technique, such as ransomware or cryptojacking.

2022 began with massive exploitation of one of the most serious vulnerabilities on the internet, the Apache log4j, and continued with full-blown cyber warfare from the Russia-Ukraine war. Check Point Research (CPR) reported that the second quarter of 2022 saw an all-time peak of 1.2K attacks per organization globally, a 32% increase compared to Q2 2021, whereas UAE observed an average of 970 weekly attacks per organization in Q2 2022, a massive 178% increase year-over-year.

However, one of the most worrying trends in 2022 is the growth of cybercrime across the board becoming firmly entrenched as a state-level weapon, including the new ransomware method of ‘Country Extortion’, state-affiliated hacktivism, and the expansion of ransomware as the number one threat. This year’s GITEX provides an opportunity to educate the customers on the importance of having Gen V solutions to battle the current threat landscape and showcase Check Point Software’s products and solutions that provide end-to-end security from the enterprise to the cloud, to mobile workers’ personal devices.

What will be your theme of participation at GITEX?
Check Point Software focuses on providing organizations with the ability to conduct their business with the highest level of security. At the region’s biggest technology event, Check Point Software will be emphasising exhibiting industry-leading, new, and innovative security solutions that redefine cyber security. GITEX 2022 will also provide the opportunity to network with channel partners to seek new ways of collaborating to provide solutions to their customers.

Do you plan to run any online engagements such as webinars and offline engagements such as tech talks, demos, keynotes, and so on, alongside GITEX?
We will be hosting visitors at the booth and showcasing our solution highlights:

We plan to showcase Demo Point to our channel partners and end customers where they get to explore Check Point Quantum (Network), Check Point CloudGuard (Cloud) & Check Point Harmony (User and Access) security products. This is a personalized demo and would be coordinated by one of our security experts
With digital transformation initiatives gaining traction and more cloud adoption we will have our cloud security architects engaging with customers onsite and showcasing how to address cloud security at scale and speed.
We will be discussing and showcasing our hyperscale architecture – Maestro solution and engaging with prospects on how it can be relevant to their environment and address some of their use cases.

How have your regional strategies changed in recent months?
Check Point Software is working on driving an impact and changing the cybersecurity game in the region with a series of new strategic directions. We believe this will reshape cybersecurity with the best and brightest thinking around new products, new experiences, and a new mindset. To emphasize this new direction, earlier this year Check Point Software rolled out the new mantra “You Deserve the BEST Security”; with this new mindset, we have been constantly growing and are continuing to invest with more resources in the region.

We are expanding in the UAE by investing in additional sales and technical teams to continuously engage with our stakeholders and educate them on the current threat landscape and how Check Point Software’s solutions can be of value to their organizations. Check Point Software aims to provide any organization with the ability to conduct its business on the internet with the highest level of security. Our long-term goal is to expand our reach – vertically and geographically – in the region by bringing our solutions to businesses in the public and private sectors and continuing to provide our focused insights in the cyber threat landscape in the UAE and overall region.

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GITEX Global 2024 to Showcase Future of Tech with New Editions

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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

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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: