NEWS
Z Services and McAfee to transform
cloud-based security offering
Z
Services, an innovative cloud-based cybersecurity solutions
provider in the MENA region, and McAfee, the device-to-cloud
cybersecurity company, will bring the first in-country cloud
security solution to organisations across the Middle East and
North Africa.
Z Services President Nidal Taha (left) with
Nigel Hawthorn, EMEA Director of Cloud
Security at McAfee
The solution, powered by McAfee’s MVISION Cloud, will be
available through Z Services’ in-country multi-tenant cloud
security infrastructure.
With the addition of this solution, UAE-based Z Services will
extend its cloud-based customer offering and enhance its
consistent data protection and threat prevention capabilities
across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS platforms such as Office 365, Box,
Dropbox, AWS and Microsoft Azure. The in-country solution also
enables customers to remain compliant with regulations around
data storage.
Z Services President Nidal Taha said: “Operating within an
environment of constant security threats, organisations in the MENA
region need a solution that assures security across multiple cloud
applications and protects data. Cloud Security provides organisations
with better visibility of Shadow IT cloud services, monitoring of cloud
application usage, prevention of cloud data leakage and protection
against diverse threats.
“The addition of the McAfee’s MVISION Cloud to our cloud-based
offering demonstrates our commitment to innovate with customer
needs in mind and offer newer layers of security that regional
businesses may not even have considered yet.”
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Riverbed presents vision for the
future of banking at IDC Banking
& Finance Congress
R
iverbed has presented its vision for the
‘Future of Banking’ at the IDC Banking
& Finance Congress in Dubai in a bid to
empower Middle East Banking and Financial
institutions to deliver the digital experiences
tech-savvy customers now demand.
The company also invited a customer, a
leading payment solutions provider in the
Middle East and Africa (MEA), to share
details on how their implementation of the
Riverbed SteelCentral solution for Application
Performance Monitoring (APM) has enabled
them to monitor and optimise the end-to-
end transaction chain between merchants’
point of sale (PoS) systems, their internal
payment gateway and banks.
“As digital platforms, such as web and
mobile, are significantly on the rise in
the banking and financial services sector,
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end device, is becoming increasingly
critical,” Charbel Khneisser, Director,
Solutions Engineering, Middle East, Turkey
and North Africa, at Riverbed.
“By closing the visibility gap, financial
institutions can rapidly pinpoint the root
cause of their digital performance issues,
resulting in enhanced service delivery, SLA
compliance, and overall improvement of
customer satisfaction.
Charbel Khneisser, Director, Solutions
Engineering, Middle East, Turkey and North
Africa, at Riverbed
the need to ensure high application
performance all the way up till the actual
“Going beyond this, visibility can then help
identify customer engagement preferences
on digital platforms and this insight can be
used to fine-tune existing services and even
introduce entirely new revenue streams.
In an industry that is rapidly changing,
understanding customer requirements and
buying behaviours will be paramount to
competitive differentiation.”
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