UAE cybersecurity professionals say board does not pay attention to digital security finds Trellix

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New research from Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response, reveals a disconnect between cybersecurity professionals and senior management. Despite widespread board-level ownership of cyber risk, almost half, 42% of UAE cybersecurity professionals say the board doesn’t pay sufficient attention to digital security. This points to a concerning trend that cyber security is being treated as a tick-box exercise.

In the UAE, a huge majority, 89% of cybersecurity professionals agree that there is a welldefined ownership of cyber risk at the board and management level, whether that sits with one individual, 38% or a committee, taskforce, 51%. Yet, about a quarter, 26% of respondents highlighted that cybersecurity is not being considered a priority by C-suite, board level which has become a significant challenge for the business. With ownership not equating to prioritisation in the cyber space, it’s no surprise that 44% of UAE cyber professionals call out feeling undervalued by their business and 36% call out feeling undervalued by their boss as two of their biggest frustrations.

Fortunately, cybersecurity conversations are taking place in an organisation, with little over two-thirds, 67% confirm that regular discussions on cybersecurity and compliance are held with management and the senior leadership team. Cyber resilience comes from collaboration and communication, yet these vary from business to business when a significant cybersecurity incident or cyber-attack occurs.

For example, while a third, 34% of UAE cybersecurity professionals confirm that it is typically reported to the board within one hour, 19% admit it takes at least a couple of days or longer to report it to senior management. This delay can mean the difference between successfully mitigating an attack and being faced with difficult consequences.

Zonar Systems selects AMD-powered Google Cloud Confidential Computing platform

Customer privacy and data protection are essential elements for any responsible company and measures must be taken seriously when complying with strict privacy protection laws, especially those in Europe. However, when it comes to entrusting mission-critical workloads in cloud-native environments, many businesses lack the confidence that their data is securely protected, despite modern-day platforms being more secure than ever.

At a time when 59% of enterprise leaders believe cyberattacks are more sophisticated

Oracle and Uber Technologies announce seven-year strategic cloud partnership

Oracle and Uber Technologies, announced a seven-year strategic cloud partnership to accelerate Uber’s innovation, help deliver new products to market, and drive increased profitability.

As Uber continues to grow and enter new markets, it is increasingly important for the business to focus resources on its core strengths and strategic initiatives. By migrating some of the company’s most critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Uber will be in a position to modernise its infrastructure while also accelerating its path to profitability.

This new strategic partnership with Uber along with recent analyst reports serve as powerful validation of OCI’s strategy and product vision. Customers want both flexibility and best-in-class price-performance infrastructure across a global footprint. Uber can now take advantage of these capabilities that only OCI provides. than they were two years ago, and 45% indicate that they are happening more frequently, it’s surprising to find that only 8% of cybersecurity and IT professionals fully understand the model for all types of cloud services, leading people to make assumptions about default cloud security levels and create false confidence that data is protected in an unencrypted state.

Along with the OCI agreement, the strategic partnership includes other areas of collaboration between the two companies. Oracle will become a global Uber for Business client, selecting Uber as a preferred rideshare for its employees to travel and eat around the world. Uber and Oracle will also continue co-innovating on additional retail and delivery solutions that will evolve from the cloud partnership including consumer experiences with last-mile logistics.

That’s why companies like Zonar Systems, a smart fleet management and mobility solutions company, are choosing cloud platforms such as the AMD-powered Google Cloud Confidential Computing platform, to support its GDPR and Schrems II compliance efforts. By moving its legacy datacentre environment to one that is cloud-native, Zonar Systems is able to encrypt not only at-rest and in-transit data, but also in-use data which is typically unencrypted.

Google Cloud Confidential Computing’s makes use of AMD Encryption Virtualisation on AMD EPYC CPUs. This hardwareaccelerated memory encryption uses keys to keep data encrypted, even when it’s being accessed, indexed, or searched. What’s more, users of Microsoft’s recently announced Azure DCasv5, ECasv5 confidential virtual machines means that customers can take advantage of the security features of AMD Infinity Guard inside Azure confidential VMs with a minimal performance impact.