CASE STUDY cyber resilience. It aligns with global best practices while adapting to regional regulatory requirements and sector-specific risks. It is structured around five core pillars: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover, empowering organisations to build resilience not just through technology, but through people, process, and strategy.
Moving forward
Through this collaboration, Arab Open University demonstrates a forward-thinking commitment to protecting its digital ecosystem while enhancing student and faculty experiences through secure, uninterrupted access to digital education platforms.
Powering GBM’ s cybersecurity services is the latest evolution of its proprietary cyber defence engine, COR. xyz. This new version of the COR platform delivers next-generation capabilities in AI-powered threat detection, automation, and visualisation. COR. xyz is technology-neutral, integrating seamlessly with a wide range of SIEMs, EDRs, and cloud-native tools.
It offers a unified, real-time view of security events across environments, on-premises, cloud, or hybrid, and enables advanced incident correlation, automated playbooks, and visual incident chaining to enhance analyst efficiency and response time. COR. xyz recently achieved a key milestone, reducing average time from detection to response to just 4.3 minutes, showcasing the impact of automation and orchestration on rapid containment.
GBM’ s MDR offering of 24x7 threat monitoring and detection is delivered through its regional Cyber Defence Centres in the GCC, powered by COR. xyz and supported by advanced hyper automation.
By eliminating the need for Level 1 and 2 analysts, GBM accelerates triage, threat hunting, and incident response while reducing noise and operational fatigue. The service is offered in two flexible models: it can either integrate and leverage the customer’ s existing security technologies, such as SIEM and EDR. Or alternatively, GBM can provision these technologies as part of its MSSP offering, hosted securely within its regional data centres.
Complementing its technical depth, GBM offers advisory support to help organisations align cybersecurity with business objectives. These services range from cyber maturity assessments, regulatory gap analysis, and risk quantification to full security transformation programs.
Together, these components form a forward-looking cybersecurity model for supporting education institutions like Arab Open University, national SOCs, or multinational enterprises,
With GBM Shield framework, COR. xyz platform, 24x7 MDR operations, and strategic guidance, GBM is a partner of choice for institutions seeking operational protection and resilience in a digitally connected world.
The partnership also represents GBM’ s expanding leadership in securing educational environments and
reinforces its position as the cybersecurity partner of choice for public sector institutions in Kuwait and across the region.
THE INITIATIVE WILL BE POWERED BY GBM’ S PROPRIETARY COR.
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“ Our partnership with the University reflects our shared commitment to securing the digital foundation and embedding robust, proactive cybersecurity into the heart of modern education,” said Wassim Seliman, General Manager of GBM Kuwait.
With more than 35 years of experience, 7 offices and over 1500 employees across the region, Gulf Business Machines, GBM is an end-to-end digital solutions provider, offering the region’ s broadest portfolio, including industry-digital infrastructure, digital business solutions, security and services. We have nurtured partnerships since 1990 with the world’ s technology companies and invested in a talented, skilled workforce to implement solutions that cater to customer’ s specific, complex and diverse business needs.
GBM’ s strategic partners in the Gulf include IBM as their sole distributor throughout GCC, excluding Saudi Arabia and selected IBM product and services, Cisco as a Gold Partner, the highest level of certification at Cisco, and VMware as a Premier Partner, the highest partner status within VMware. p
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