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UAE MARKETSCAPE
triggered an increase in demand
for Digital Transformation
across different sectors in UAE.
“Good news is we are seeing
organisations re-assessing their
cloud adoption strategies and
cloud readiness, pivoting quickly
to digital solutions and tools to
ensure Business Continuity, be
it distance learning or working
remotely using teleconferencing,”
says Parag.
Present state of Cloud security
The COVID-19 pandemic
while has been a challenging
time for businesses because of
the historic disruption that has
accompanied; it’s been a boon for important motivation as the
cybercriminals. The risk surface got economic damage of COVID-19
hugely extended, and the need of
the hour for organizations is to
look at prioritizing cyber security
technologies and adapting to a
hybrid cloud-ready cyber resilience integrate with SaaS applications
strategy. This is true not only in
the UAE market but also globally.
According to a recent update,
the UAE’s Telecommunications
Regulatory Authority (TRA)
is working on cybersecurity
policy for a cloud-based future,
according to Eng Abdulrahman
Almarzouqi, Director of
Cybersecurity, TRA. The TRA
meanwhile is actively working
with other organisations including amongst customers and they
international bodies such as the
International Telecommunications capabilities,” says Parag.
Union to ensure that its policies
are in line with international
standards and practices.
“Layering cloud defenses while
building a continuity and backup
plan can help organizations
quickly return to standard
operations without losing
critical data or productivity,”
cautions Abdallah. “In fact,
SonicWall’s recently launched
Mid-Year Threat Report showed
a dramatic increase in phishing
and ransomware over the last
few months, with financial gain
emerging as an increasingly
becomes apparent. Organizations and support through managed
should therefore be on the
lookout for next-gen security
solutions that can seamlessly
and offer shadow IT visibility and
control for cloud usage on the
network.”
“As much as cloud computing
has helped with the storage of
data, it has created the need
for increased security. Without
testing, backups and proper
access permissions, data can be
easily hacked or stolen, which is
leading to an increased awareness devices but will also look to
need to get equipped with these
And so…
Now that everything is moving
to the cloud, as is evident during
the pandemic, it is never too late
to drive a cloud-driven future.
Security of the cloud therefore
should be the topmost priority of
every organization dealing with
data on the cloud.
However concerns revolving
around lack of internal IT skills
and retaining qualified IT staff
continue to loom large for
UAE companies. In fact UAE
respondents have agreed that
they lack the internal IT skills
required to meet business
demands and the inability to
retain IT talent were higher than
the global averages. This in
turn might slow the progress in
adoption of the cloud in the UAE.
But on the brighter side of
things, the shortage of skilled
security practitioners has driven
the use of more security process
automation. Approaches include
more automation of security tasks
service to ensure that no critical
security controls are dropped.
A recent forecast by Gartner
reveals that Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) enterprise
information security and risk
management spending will
total US$1.7 billion in 2020, an
increase of 10.7 percent from
2019. This increase in spending
is an evidence of how companies
are slowly gearing up to the
importance of securing not only
their networks and endpoint
secure the cloud in future.
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