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Cybersecurity under siege: How AI and ransomware are redefining threats in the Middle East

CIO

As Middle Eastern countries accelerate digital transformation through smart cities, AI adoption, and giga-projects, cybersecurity threats are evolving faster than defenses can keep up. Every time a new security measure is implemented, attackers find ways to bypass it within a short period. Partnerships are crucial in this ecosystem.

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Cyber Startup Armis Security Raises $200M At $4.2B Valuation

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Cybersecurity firm Armis Security closed a $200 million Series D led by Alkeon Capital and General Catalyst. In 2020, Insight Partners bought a large stake in the startup. However, securing older industrial control systems that were designed decades ago — long before cyberattacks were a reality — have proven difficult to build.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO

Now that all the industry thought leaders have weighed in and published their predictions for what the cybersecurity landscape will look like in 2025, it seems that theres a clear consensus emerging: Both attacks and defense of devices and networks will increasingly be AI-driven as time goes by. What is a human firewall?

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To guard against data loss and misuse, the cybersecurity conversation must evolve

TechCrunch

Sid Trivedi is a partner at Foundation Capital where he leads cybersecurity and IT investments. In healthcare alone, 2020 saw 640 breaches , exposing 30 million personal records, a 25% increase over 2019 that equates to roughly two breaches per day, according to the U.S. Sid Trivedi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mark Settle.

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

Is your data secure? Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM BST Can data scientists discover and use the data? Can business people create reports via drag and drop? Can operations monitor what’s going on? Will the data lake scale when you have twice as much data? Navigating idle clusters and bottlenecks.

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The cybersecurity funding bubble hasn’t burst — but it’s starting to deflate

TechCrunch

Last year was record-breaking for the cybersecurity market. Data from Momentum Cyber, a financial advisory firm for the security industry, showed that cybersecurity startups raised a “record-shattering” $29.5

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Address cybersecurity challenges before rolling out robotic process automation

TechCrunch

Throughout 2021, security teams will begin to realize the unconsidered security challenges of robotic process automation. Gartner inquiries related to RPA increased over 1,000% during 2020 as companies continue to invest. However, there’s one big issue that’s commonly overlooked when it comes to RPA — security.

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Shift Left Security? Development Does Not Want to Own It.

Speaker: Shlomo Bielak, CTO, Benchmark Corp

Shifting security left to the earliest part of development is currently in the spotlight in the developer world. What teams are now discovering is, this approach results in misdirected ownership for developers and a frustrated security team. In the current climate, we cannot afford to let security implementations falter.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

In this webinar, you will learn: The future of data security. Preparing for crises that lead to security threats. How to update existing tech stacks to optimize data security. Thursday September 10th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT. And much more!

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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7 Questions Every App Team Should Ask

In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence. Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge?

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance. Wednesday September 16th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT We are excited to be joined by Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly. March 11, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT. How do you help your engineers get on board with buying instead of building?