In 2024, cybercriminals will embrace AI initiating the era of autonomous ransomware attacks and will commence with robocall-like automation, AI-driven target identification, breach execution, victim extortion, ransom collection, with minimal human interaction says Johnny Karam at Veritas. With a heightened emphasis on investment in talent and technology, UAE businesses are expressing confidence in their ability […]

Advanced AI-driven facial recognition meets hyper-modular kiosk design to enhance the user check-in/authentication experience across industries. HID, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and Olea Kiosks, a provider of self-service kiosk solutions, have announced a new collaborative engagement that revolutionizes the user experience when it comes to access control and user authentication across a […]

HSG Holding has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Quadriga Systems Limited (QSL), a market-leader in cloud-based IT solutions and infrastructure, in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. With this acquisition, HSG Holding strengthen its position in the hospitality arena as an investment vehicle to support the development of […]

In the first half of 2022 in the Middle East, computers in the industrial control systems (ICS) environment were attacked using multiple means. Malicious objects were blocked on every third (36%) ICS computer in the region that was protected by Kaspersky solutions, according to the ICS threat landscape report by Kaspersky ICS CERT. Phishing pages […]

The global digital economy is in full velocity mode, embracing the return of one of the world’s largest, most inclusive tech and start-up events, which opens next month in Dubai with record capacity, its continued expansion fuelling the installation of three additional sold-out halls at the Dubai World Trade Centre. GITEX GLOBAL 2022 will take […]

McDonald’s Japan has deployed Adra Matcher, Balancer and Task Manager to provide greater visibility and streamline critical processes. McDonald’s Japan has gone live with Trintech’s Adra Suite to simplify and automate its reconciliation and financial close processes. By combining effective finance processes with Adra, McDonald’s Japan will see increased ROI, improved accuracy and greater visibility […]

Ian Jansen van Rensburg, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware, explains what he thinks the major changes will be for companies following the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the significant challenges with the global pandemic is that some companies might not open for business after the dust has settled. The most vulnerable are low to mid range […]

Recognising the urgent need for organisations to maintain Business Continuity through the current global crisis, Cupola Teleservices, the Middle East’s pioneer in outsourced contact centre services has worked with Avaya, its trusted partner for advanced contact centre and collaboration solutions, to further enhance its contact centre capabilities. As the BPO partner to several multinational corporations […]

SAP and its channel partner SEIDOR MENA is helping McDonald’s UAE digitally transform to cater for the growing market in food. As McDonald’s UAE, owned and operated by Emirates Fast Food Co, expands the company needed to modernise operations with mobile and scalable cloud solutions and turned to channel partner SEIDOR MENA to adopt SAP […]

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has announced that the City Seasons Hotel Deira has consolidated its communications infrastructure with a deployment of ALE high performance access points to boost network availability and management. The City Seasons Hotel is part of the UAE-based Bin Ham Group, which operates a number of hotels in key locations in the UAE […]