Reseller ME finds out how security channel players can be a step ahead in the highly dynamic marketplace and maintain profitability.
ME bank thefts linked to $6 billion cyber launderers
Online currency exchange firm Liberty Reserve was last week found guilty of laundering $6 billion and it has now emerged that the organisation is linked to last year’s $45 million Bank of Muscat and RAKBANK frauds.
Oxygen and Aruba target SMB expansion
Secure Mobility VAD Oxygen and Aruba Networks have announced that the company has expanded its existing offering of tier-one wireless networking solutions to the channel for both the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) and the small-to-medium business (SMB) markets in the Middle East Region.
Palo Alto: 178 million ME Android users at risk
Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new research highlighting security risks in the internal storage used by applications on Google Android devices, rendering more than 94 percent of popular Android applications used in the Middle East & Africa potentially vulnerable.
Trading up
With an undeniable dedication to world-class service for its countless visitors, vendors and exhibitors, Farid Farouq, Vice President, IT, knows the Dubai World Trade Centre must stay on the cutting edge of technology. When it came time for an infrastructure upgrade, Farouq knew it would not be a small task.
Hacker headspace
With cybercrime an ever-present danger, hackers around the world attack user data for financial and political gain. But they are not all bad. CNME takes a look at the mindset of hackers good and evil, and how they constantly ask questions of governments and top companies.
Help at hand
An IT help desk is the central organ of technical support for any business, and the first place employees look when facing such problems. How can organisations best equip their help desks so they are ready to tackle any problem, and what are the most pressing issues they currently face?
Kaspersky: Syrian cyberspace conflict intensifies
The cyberspace conflict in the Middle East – particularly Syria – is intensifying as sides exploit malware in a bid to gain advantages, according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest threat research.
Narrowing the focus
Ramkumar B, President, Value Division, Redington Gulf, discusses the company’s plans for cloud and other focus areas for driving the business.
Netwrix signs up Bulwark as ME VAD
Netwrix Corporation, a global provider of change and configuration auditing software, has expanded its presence in the Middle East by partnering with Bulwark Technologies, a regional value-added distributor for IT security.
Cyberoam updates CCC NM appliances for enterprises & MSSPs
The network security solutions vendor, Cyberoam, has launched its Next-Generation Management series of its Cyberoam Central Console appliances (CCC NM) for enterprises and for managed security service providers (MSSPs).
Oracle’s Sparc M7 chip to supercharge in-memory computing
Oracle has given the first peek at its upcoming Sparc M7 processor, promising big performance gains for customers who use …
AMD mulls custom ARM 64-bit server chips
Advanced Micro Devices may be willing to make custom ARM server chips for customers, much like it made custom chips …
BlackBerry partners with TRA to support mGovernment
BlackBerry has announced that it is collaborating with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) to support the mGovernment initiative outlined and …
5 unanswered questions about massive Russian hacker database
There’s still much that’s unclear about Tuesday’s revelation that a small group of hackers in Russia have amassed a database of 1.2 billion stolen …
Cyberoam appoints new Enterprise Account Manager
Cyberoam has appointed Mukil Madanan as its Enterprise Account Manager for Middle East. Madanan will be playing an instrumental role in expanding the company’s client base in the region apart from managing the existing client relations.
Mastering the data
Moving virtual servers around a hybrid cloud environment isn’t hard, but managing the data is. That’s why NetApp wants to be “the enterprise data-management standard across the enterprise,” says CEO Tom Georgens.
Rack to the future
Data centre technology is rapidly changing. With the advent of virtualisation and increasing speed and agility may come a sense of impending doom for IT staff. However, more efficient centres do not necessarily mean the end of a robust technical department.
Microsoft ordered to surrender Dublin cloud data
In a decision that could have broad privacy implications, a federal court in New York Thursday ordered Microsoft to comply with a U.S. government demand for a customer’s emails stored on a company server in Dublin, Ireland.
BlackBerry buying German firm for voice encryption
BlackBerry has always touted its mobile devices as secure. But now it plans to make them “more secure” by acquiring …