Hybrid Workforce Needs Cybersecurity Rollout from Day One

Bad actors are taking advantage of the chaotic nature of these times, by launching coronavirus-themed cyber-attacks and impersonating well-known websites that try to provide useful, timely information for the general public. Indeed, COVID-19 has become the subject of choice for phishing and spear-phishing campaigns that seek to take advantage of the heightened level of fear and concern.

Interview with Fortinet’s Alain Penel

TECHx Executive Editor Rabab Zehra spoke with Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet, about the company’s children’s book, SD-WAN integration with Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center, remote working solutions, and channel partner initiatives. Let’s dig a little deeper into the responses we got.

SAIB becomes first bank in the kingdom to adopt Cisco technologies

SAIB the first bank in Saudi Arabia to have full stack of Cisco SDN Architecture, and better powered by Intent to offer IBN using Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), SDA and SD-WAN. Saudi Investment Bank was also first bank in the country to acquire ACI in its Data Centre, which is an important first step towards Software Defined Networking (SDN).

Fortinet announces Secure SD-WAN integration to Google Cloud’s NCC

With the integration of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and Google Cloud’s Network Connectivity Center (NCC), offering customers the unique opportunity to secure the cloud on-ramp into the cloud, between clouds and within the cloud.

Juniper Networks leans into SASE with new announcement

Juniper Security Director Cloud bridges organizations’ current security deployments with their future SASE rollouts by providing security that is managed anywhere and everywhere, on-premises and in the cloud, from the cloud.