Help AG and Cribl announce partnership to strengthen data security in UAE and KSA

Help AG, e& enterprise’s (formerly Etisalat Digital’s) cybersecurity arm and the region’s trusted security advisor, has announced a partnership with Cribl, a provider of observability ecosystems and unified data pipelines.

The collaboration will allow Help AG customers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia to adopt cost-effective data flow management tools and drive higher efficiency in secure data interpretation across their services.

Commenting on the partnership, Stephan Berner, Chief Executive Officer at Help AG, said: “We are very pleased to work together with Cribl in our mission towards making data flow management tools more efficient and observability data more secure, while significantly reducing the cost of managing this data for our valued clients in the region. Cribl’s bespoke big data analytics solutions will grant our customers more visibility and control while maximising value from Help AG’s existing range of services, making observability even more beneficial and profitable for them.”

The need for fit-for-purpose solutions to deliver the right data to the right place in the right format has grown exponentially in recent years, particularly in the data security landscape, as Security Operations Centre (SOC) data volumes grow at an unprecedented rate and data budgets struggle to keep up.

The collaboration between Help AG and Cribl will leverage both companies’ unrivaled expertise to improve data fidelity for threat hunting and compliance via smart routing technology. Cribl’s portfolio of three core products will support Help AG’s mission of ensuring that customers in the UAE and KSA receive the quickest detection of any security threats through managed data flow, while also providing them with the most optimized and efficient managed security services (MSS).

Hash Choudhuri, General Manager EMEA at Cribl, said: “We founded Cribl with the firm belief that collecting, analysing, and storing observability data does not need to be a trade-off for digital enterprises. That is why our agreement with Help AG will add value to their overall offering by making vendor and client data more secure and easy to interpret in the most efficient way. We are delighted by this opportunity to serve a rapidly growing base of customers and enterprises in UAE and KSA.”

Cribl Stream, a streaming data processor that reshapes, enriches, and routes data to more efficiently manage logs from Help AG’s security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solutions, will be a key component of the partnership. Cribl’s other two core products, Cribl Edge and AppScope, will also deploy vendor-agnostic agents to send observability data to any destination and collect advanced system metrics and data from Help AG client endpoints.

The easy-to-use Cribl interface will not only simplify the data onboarding process for the industry leading SIEM platforms for Help AG customers but also comes with the out-of-the box capability to remove the “noise” from client data and drastically reduce the license cost of chosen data platforms.