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The report reveals a disruptive year of workforce transformation forced by the COVID-19 shutdowns during which respondents also handled expensive fallouts from network outages and data breaches.

Data Protection Dayis an opportunity to explore some of the technologies leading the way in the fight against cyber (dis)information and how businesses can take up arms to protect our rights as employees, consumers, and citizens.

On the occasion of Data Privacy Day 2021, TECHx goes one-on-one with Houssem Jemili, Partner at Bain & Company the Middle East to discuss recent data privacy trends & how Bain & Company contributes to the future of the regional data privacy landscape.

This supply chain attack operated at the scale of a worm such as WannaCry in 2017, combined with the precision and lethality of the 2014 Sony Pictures or 2015 U.S. government Office of Personnel Management (OPM) attacks.

Given the precipitous nature of the pandemic, organizations have had very little time to prepare for such large-scale remote work, let alone think about how to secure ‘work from home’ users. These remote workers still need to access enterprise applications in the cloud, and work with and store corporate data on their devices.

Encouragingly, 82% of organisations surveyed in the UAE and Saudi Arabia in Mimecast’s State of Email Security 2020 report, say they have a cyber resilience strategy or are actively rolling one out. Yet, 67% of respondents still believe it’s inevitable or likely they will suffer from an email-borne attack in the coming year.

2020 has been the year of ransomware. Attackers have been brazen during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily targeting healthcare organizations, educational institutions and municipalities.

The report, conducted in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), concludes that cybercrime costs the world economy more than $1 trillion, or just more than one percent of global GDP.

It’s imperative that companies make cybersecurity awareness, prevention and security practices a part of their culture. As per the studies conducted in the year 2016, 95% of breached records came from only three industries; government, retail, and technology.

GamaSec to team with Ethos Technologies to offer its Customers in UAE, the Middle East and North Africa region GamaSec cutting edge virtual hacker Web Cyber Security Solution.