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Articles by Taj El-khayat
Navigating Cloud Security Challenges in the Middle East
Navigate the complex terrain of cybersecurity in the Middle East with insights into the challenges faced by security teams in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” is a perplexing adage. Images of wandering barefoot around a dark cellar strewn with mousetraps are enough to discredit it. And yet, even as headlines highlight the dangers of ignorance in cybersecurity, some still trust their toes will make it through intact.
Insights: How to spot AI ‘snake oil’ in cybersecurity
The UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence will celebrate its fifth anniversary in October. The government saw the potential in artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems that occupy the minds of world leaders everywhere. It could be a boon to traffic safety, healthcare research and education.
Facing the cyber-unknown in the hybrid cloud labyrinth
By Taj El-khayat, Area VP – South EMEA, Vectra AI The UAE cloud computing market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 38.2% over the next seven years, mainly because of the rise of the hybrid office. This strongly suggests that much of that growth will occur in the building of hybrid cloud environments. Growth stories are always good news, but many come with caveats. And the dark side of the hybrid cloud craze is cyberattacks. It is a tale of more. A spiral of more. More attack surface.
How Attack-signal Intelligence Can Stop Cybersecurity Talent Drain
If you are a UAE-based business leader, then you know, without my telling you: we are under attack. Cybersecurity — the thing you used to leave to nameless backroom techies — is now a boardroom priority. The CISO is in more meetings than ever, and while you may not have fully grasped what they were talking about when they used phrases like technology sprawl, lack of full-stack observability, and shadow IT. You certainly understood the media headlines about more and more attacks.
In a world of cyber-unknowns, “Attack Signal IntelligenceTM” is the ideal watchdog
By Taj El-khayat, Managing Director – South EMEA at Vectra AI I have never met a cybersecurity professional whose reason for entering the field was “because it’s easy”. And yet the profession’s challenges have mounted to breaking point in the past few years. Unprecedented sprawl within the IT stack has led to a rapid and sizeable expansion of the attack surface at a time of stubbornly persistent skills gaps.
Security vs. agility: how to resolve the legendary corporate clash
Pandemic lockdowns were a catalyst for many changes. Across the region and around the world, isolation acted as the social equivalent of sensory deprivation to set many new trends in motion. People reexamined their compassion, and this showed up in surveys, and in a renewed interest in ESG (environment, social, governance) issues. People also reexamined their own ambitions, leading to the Great Resignation. So, in short, whether it was themselves or others, people started thinking more about people.
The 9 Cs Of Cybersecurity For The Modern Business
Arab Gulf nations’ reputations for technological prowess are well deserved. From cloud to mixed reality and AI to IoT, GCC governments and businesses have been early adopters, unafraid of trying out new things. For example, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ranks tenth out of 64 nations in the IMD’s World Digital Competitiveness Index for 2021. But GCC governments know they must protect their digital innovation communities against those who would leverage expanded attack surfaces for their gain.
Evaluating the role of CISOs in combating the risks of the ‘move fast, fail fast’ culture
GCC governments have staked their futures on technology. Digital transformation is a prominent pillar of Saudi Arabia’s National Transformation Plan and features heavily in the very long list of economic diversification programs initiated by the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) government.
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