Think tanks

A new report by Freshworks Inc. revealed a surprising juxtaposition for IT teams in the UAE. While on average, IT service requests from employees in the country are resolved 20% faster than the global average

Juniper Networks, a provider of secure, AI-driven networks, published findings indicating that, while sustainable network infrastructure policies are being implemented across the Middle East

"The Metaverse: What's In It For Telcos?" by Arthur D. Little (ADL) examines how telcos can capture value by leveraging the metaverse. The Metaverse represents a significant new market for telcos, with early estimates putting the Metaverse opportunity at around $13 trillion by 2030.

Barracuda researchers discovered that the education (15%), municipality (12%), healthcare (12%), infrastructure (8%), and financial (6%) sectors are the five most targeted by adversaries after identifying and analyzing 106 highly publicized ransomware attacks over the past year. According to the analysis, ransomware attacks on educational institutions more than doubled from the previous year

The company's analysis of millions of email attachments over the last month revealed that 1 in 5 HTML attachments was malicious. In comparison, only 0.03% and 0.009% of MS Office and PDF files sent via scanned emails were found to be malicious.

The Mirror will allow R users in the region to install R packages from the NYUAD-CRAN mirror, reducing long-distance Internet traffic for R users in Arab countries.