FeatureSince the lockdown, nearly three-quarters of remote workers worldwide say they are more conscious of their organisation’s cybersecurity policies.
While 2020 has been a year of profound challenges for enterprises, companies are realising their digital potential. In the era of the coronavirus pandemic, digital transformation, and cloud security, 79% are the chart-topping topics that enterprises in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific want to know more about.
Trend Micro is seeing regional cybersecurity demand from industry sectors such as government and public sector, banking and finance, and energy, oil and gas, and utilities. Trend Micro is seeing strong success on expanding and enhancing its channel partner programme in Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. Trend Micro has further built and enhanced its channel partner ecosystem.
The Middle East will continue to need to close the cybersecurity talent gap. Helping to nurture young talent in the UAE and the region, Trend Micro and CyberTalents have hosted the 6th annual UAE Capture the Flag CTF Competition in the UAE, and in Arab and Africa. The UAE hosted 10 teams and 24 players.
The GCC continues to be hit hard by cyber-attacks. Trend Micro detected a combined 56,873,271 email, URL, malware, and banking malware attacks in the GCC during the first half of 2020, according to the Midyear Security Report.
Worldwide, Covid-19 related threats have been the single largest type of threat faced by organisations. In the first half of the year, Trend Micro blocked 8.8 million Covid-19 related threats, nearly 92% of which were spam delivered via emails. In the GCC, Trend Micro blocked 163,774 Covid-19 threats: 127,415 URL attacks, 36,312 email spam attacks, and 47 malware attacks in H1 2020.
Since the lockdown, nearly three-quarters, 72% of remote workers worldwide say they are more conscious of their organisation’s cybersecurity policies, according to Trend Micro’s recent study, Head in the Clouds.
However, many employees are still breaking the rules anyway due to limited understanding or resource constraints. Trend Micro is educating organisations about the importance of not having a one-size-fits-all cybersecurity strategy, but rather tailoring their cybersecurity strategies to the most common information security personas.
Each persona, Fearful, Conscientious, Ignorant, and Daredevil, is based on employee attitudes and behaviors on risk awareness, risk management, and risk avoidance, and personal accountability.
The UAE-based United Arab Bank replaced its legacy anti-virus software with Trend Micro solutions running on a secure digital platform for full network visibility and management for virtual patching, malware protection, user behavior, and malicious activity for 500 users running 60 systems and apps on 1,000 servers.
UAB reduced the time to manage encryption from 8 to 2 hours, detects over 80% of cyber-threats, and quickly deploys security agents.
Key products in 2020 include:
Trend Micro Cloud One Hybrid Cloud Security, a comprehensive SaaS security solution that includes file storage security, conformity, network security, workload security, container security, and application security.
Cloud One is optimised for cloud platforms AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Google Cloud, IBM, Kubernetes Cloud, and VMware. Customers can find full security capabilities in a single smart agent; protection against vulnerabilities and for end-of-life systems; and achieve and maintain regulatory and compliance requirements.
Trend Micro XDR, the first solution in the cybersecurity industry that offers the most extensive correlated detection going beyond endpoint detection and response EDR.
Trend Micro Apex One providing automated threat detection, actionable insights, and all-in-one protection.
Amid the convergence of IT and OT, TXOne Networks solutions offers cybersecurity solutions to protect industrial control systems. TXOne Networks offers both network-based and endpoint-based products to secure the OT network and mission critical devices in a real-time defense-in-depth manner.
Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector to detect targeted attacks and ransomware anywhere in the network.
