“Technology is greatly advancing offering many innovative solutions to facilitate this change in education systems. The pandemic changed many norms of the way we live, work, or even learn. As remote and hybrid learning have been on a rise, simple technology switches can benefit remote learners, parents and even distance teachers.”

Work computers have played many roles during the pandemic – hosting everything from social gatherings to workouts, online learning sessions, home shopping and Netflix streams. Family members have borrowed Mom’s computer to play online games, and passwords have been passed around. Cyber diligence has taken on a lower priority than it should have.

The majority (85%) of manufacturing executives say the situation has given their firms the opportunity to rethink how work is done. Almost nine in ten (87%) employees agreed that as a result of the pandemic, their company has developed new and better ways of working. The shift to these innovative working practices has been widespread and rapid.

CyberKnight has signed a partnership agreement with Lookout, an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security company to distribute its products in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The inability to modernise data protection is undermining the ability to execute on DX for a significant number of EMEA businesses. The Veeam Data Protection Report 2021 found that over a quarter (28%) of organisations in the Middle East have slowed or halted their DX initiatives in the past year.