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The predictions focus primarily on key learnings from the past year, as well as anticipated trends and areas of clear business necessity.

This partnership between DIFC and Mastercard will help boost cyber readiness and resilience across the financial industry, enabling effective cyber security oversight through the Dubai Financial Services Authority Threat Intelligence Platform. The Global Cyber Forward programme combines Mastercard's cutting-edge capabilities in cyber security with those of leading public sector organisations to create secure digital eco-systems.

The target hit by Nefilim had more than 100 systems impacted. Sophos responders traced the initial intrusion to an admin account with high level access that attackers had compromised more than four weeks before they released the ransomware.

FortiXDR is AI-powered by a patent-pending Dynamic Control Flow Engine and continually trained by the threat data and research of FortiGuard Labs as well as the frontline expertise of its incident responders.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic served to accelerate digital connectivity in the GCC. It is now more important than ever to break down the barriers to mobile internet adoption and usage across the region. Digitalization after all, is going to be an important building block of economic diversification for the GCC economies.

Between collaborating cybercriminals, the upwards trajectory of data growth and the distributed workforce, the risk factor for every business is accelerating. This is one reason why we expect to see most businesses increase their general IT spending by around 5-10% in the New Year, despite the economic impact of the pandemic.

The key growth areas for the channel will be around helping customers with cloud migration and the adoption of 5G, including addressing concerns such as network security, IoT proliferation, and lack of agility and visibility throughout the IT infrastructure.

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.

“The CRI is fast becoming an indispensable resource for CISOs looking to assess their readiness to respond to cyberattacks,” said Jon Clay, director of global threat communications for Trend Micro.