Dubai, July 3 Only 19 percent of GCC companies are using dedicated agent-less security solutions to protect their virtual infrastructure meaning many are throwing away one of the key advantages of virtualization by failing to make the most effective use of hardware resources. This is one of the findings of a survey conducted by [...]
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Opinion: Combating cyber crime in the Gulf
As Qatars economy and aligned infrastructure progress rapidly, cyber crime knocks harder at the doors of emerging nations affecting businesses and individuals more than they may know. Richard Gayle unpicks the hotly discussed topic and provides tips on how to avoid being susceptible to cyber crime. E-crime costs companies globally US$1.7 trillion (QR6.1 trillion) every [...]
read moreYAHOO! expert discusses personal data protection
Earlier this year United States Internet service provider Yahoo! and Qatari information technology regulatory authority ictQatar announced a partnership aimed at the promotion of Arabic digital content in the country. At the Doha IT event Qitcom in March,TheEDGE spoke exclusively to Yahoo!s Justin Weiss, who was at the event as part of a FOSI (Family Online [...]
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Businesses and private individuals face a growing threat from cyber criminals, and their secret weapon in the fight to crack computer users security may well be the users themselves, reports Mark Van Dijk In March this year, a small group of employees at the American computer security firm RSA received an e-mail with a Microsoft [...]
read moreThe Global Threat of Cyberwar
Governments and companies across the world are facing a new kind of warfare. The enemy is unseen, the damage is immense, and the usual rules of war simply do not apply. Welcome to the era of cyber warfare. By Mark van Dijk Imagine a world in which your business can be crippled by computer operators [...]
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