Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 17 | Page 4
CONTENTS
ISSUE 17
06 News
Latest regional news roundup from
across the Middle East
14
Latest Intelligence
Addressing the Threat Within:
Rethinking network security deployment
16
Trending
Gartner talking Business Intelligence
and Analytics
38
Country Focus
How Bahrain is delivering innovation
78
Tech Talk
Safeguarding against cyber threats
by deploying cloud-first, integrated
security solutions
83
84
Get to Know... Attracting cyber security talent to the region
The lighter side of things, we ask the
industry-experts what makes them tick… Why the UAE is primed to attract the best for cyber
security specialists
EDITOR’S NOTE
Managing Partner
Richard Judd
richard@lynchpinmedia.co.uk
+44 7534 132 966
Business as usual
As 2017 gets under way, one thing
remains lodged within the ICT landscape...
it’s business as usual. Regional trends
dictate that January is a slow month for
most sector enterprises as they finalise
new budgets and sign off on yearly plans.
This is of course true within the IT relam,
but the pounding issue of security towards
the latter quarters of 2016 has hit 2017
like an express steam train..., no slowing
down for track changes, no mid way
station stops and no decreasing speed for
oncoming traffic. And why should it be
any other way? Cyber security breaches
and their hacker architects certainly did
not pause over the festive sseason to draw
breath and evalaute. The attacks keep
coming and the security industry must act
(or react) acordingly.
And so, what might invaribly be a
trend for the foreseeable future, security,
in light or current developments, will
invariably impose a large presence on
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guidance as possible.
This issue focusses on a wide range of
issues, but all with a similar undertone....
in any strain of technology you may wish
to consider, security is paramount to any
portfolio you’re piecing together for 2017
- from your network, for example, and of
course to a branch of this, mobility.
Digital transformation is a big talking
point in IT circles in just about every sector
at the moment, and perhaps even more so
with regards to Government - if you have
plans to overall your redundant systems
in 2017, read inside for expert opinion on
the step-by-step implementation processes
offered by industry experts.
Managing Partner
Stuart Lynch
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Michael Byrne
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+971 54 479 4076
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Zahra Hanif
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+971 50 600 2566
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Bhrigu Dutta
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+91 998 033 8440
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