FEATURE: CYBER SECURITY
Outsourcing, managed
services, and data centre
services market in Saudi
Arabia is expected total
in 2015 (IDC)
The converged systems
market, which includes
hyper-converged
appliances, grew by 6%
year on year in 2015
involving critical infrastructure in the US
were reported to the Industrial Control
Systems Cyber Emergency Response
Team (ICS-CERT) in the fiscal year
2015, compared to 245 in the previous
year, reflecting a 20% increase year-
on-year.
Cyber attacks that threaten national
security doubled in a year in the UK
in 2015 with the country now facing
up to seven serious assaults every day,
intelligence agency GCHQ revealed
late last year. The agency identified
200 cyber attacks every month in
2015 that either targeted critical
organisations and networks or came
from significant sources, such as
hostile states. That compares to 100 a
month in summer 2014.
In the UAE, Symantec’s Internet
Security Threat Report 2016 ranks
the UAE as the eighth most targeted
country by cyber attacks in the world in
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The Kingdom’s
enterprise hardware
market suffered a 12%
decline in value year on
year in 2015 and IDC
forecasts a further 17%
decline for 2016
2015, but yet the country’s population
ranks it in 113th position globally.
In the same report, Symantec estimated
that over half a billion personal
electronic records were stolen or lost in
2015, with 430 million new malware
variants having been discovered globally
in 2015, up 36% from the year earlier.
In the face of these sophisticated and
evolving cyber threats, DarkMatter
remains committed to protecting
infrastructure from cyber threats.
Mitigation is central to achieving this goal
and is a three-part process encompassing
visibility, intelligence and integration.
Visibility means truly understanding
the configuration of your network and
most importantly who has access to it.
Large companies in particular, often
maintain networks patched together
over decades, running different
generations of software. It’s a simple
THERE ARE SIMPLY
TOO MANY SERVERS
CONNECTED TO THE
WEB TO ENTRUST CYBER
SECURITY SOLELY TO
STATE ENFORCEMENT
BODIES. THIS IS NOT
A COUNSEL FOR
DESPAIR BUT A CALL
TO RAISE AWARENESS
AND EDUCATE
THE POPULATION
ABOUT THEIR
RESPONSIBILITIES IN
KEEPING THEMSELVES
SAFE FROM ATTACK.
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