StarLink’s focus at GITEX every year is to nurture partner, customer and vendor relationships, each of whom will have the opportunity to network with each other on the stand, as well as, meet with the company’s management team. Attendees can learn more about the company’s security framework, solutions lifecycle and business strategy as well as the recently launched StarLink Vertical Security Trend Matrix.The StarLink Vertical Security Trend Matrix provides security leaders in the key verticals of government, telco, oil and gas and banking, insight into how the latest IT security trends cater to their respective industries, in order to address today’s compliance and next-generation threat protection requirements. The top 5 IT security trends are namely, behavioural analytics, Internet of Things, cloud, mobile and incident response.
“We have been participating at GITEX technology for the last five years and we see great potential in this event. In fact, this is our most sought after event as we get a chance to engage our vendors with customers and partners to help in further fortification of enterprise networks,” says Avinash Advani, Strategic Alliances and International Markets, StarLink.
“Our vendors will be covering the following solution areas namely encryption, threat intelligence, behavioural analytics, next-generation firewalls, secure mobility, deceptive technology, advanced threat protection against DDoS, DNS, persistent threats and other malwares.”
StarLink’s portfolio has evolved into integrated solutions lifecycle consisting of data centre and cloud, data governance, risk analytics, threat protection, secure mobility, incident response and operational intelligence.
The distributor has also seen developments in terms of expansion and enhanced its portfolio to include new vendors such as ForeScout.
He adds, “Each of these solutions comprise of vendors’ core competencies, and feed into each other giving customers the ability to quickly understand their IT security gaps, and set priorities accordingly, starting from achieving effective application performance and traffic visibility, to implementing critical controls, to verification of those controls, to zero-day malware protection, to sensitive data consumption, to remediation of next-generation threats, and then back around again, while centrally consolidating visibility of all machine data to generate valuable insights.”
The company expects technologies such as behavioural analytics, IoT, mobile, incident response, cloud and virtualisation to continue to impact the regional ICT sector in the coming year.