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With travel restrictions being eased and more employees becoming comfortable with travel and remote working, the hybrid work environment has become an essential component for businesses in the UAE and around the world. This has also resulted in an increase in complexity and security risks.

Abdelilah Nejjari has been named as Cisco's new Managing Director for the Gulf region. He will be based in Dubai and will be in charge of all operations in the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Abdelilah will be in charge of driving Cisco's business growth and strategy

With approximately 15,000 guests in person and a live-streamed online event, this year's Cisco Live hybrid event was the first of its kind. Following the event's successful conclusion, Rabab Zehra, Executive Editor at TECHx spoke with Osama Al-Zoubi, CTO, Cisco Middle East and Africa, to go through the specifics of what happened. Here is what Osama had to say.

According to the report, commodity malware outpaced ransomware for the first time in more than a year during April, May, and June 2022, accounting for 20% of all threats observed, followed by ransomware, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), and advanced persistent threats.

According to the new Cisco Global Hybrid Work Index, 78% of leaders and 66% of workers believe hybrid work has no negative impact on productivity as long as they have the right technology.

“Our customers choose to run their businesses on Cisco technology because we sit at the intersection of networking, security and cloud,” said Todd Nightingale, EVP and GM, Cisco Enterprise Networking & Cloud.

Cisco, a provider of enterprise networking and security, announced plans for a global, cloud-delivered, integrated platform that secures and connects organizations of any size and shape.

While many organizations continue to use traditional applications to run mission-critical and revenue-generating systems, modern business apps are increasingly being built using DevOps initiatives and must support distributed architectures and services.

Cisco has expanded its collaboration device lineup and released new updates to enable hybrid working. The three new updates joining the Webex device portfolio include the launch of the Cisco Desk Camera 1080p.

Ransomeware continued to be the top threat and telecommunications was the most affected industry in the first quarter of 2022, according to a new trends report.