EC News DeskQualys has launched the Qualys UAE Cloud, a platform that will allow public and private enterprises across the Middle East to innovate as Qualys brings them unprecedented security and visibility across their hybrid IT environment.
The move comes as regional cloud migration reaches fever pitch. Last year, YouGov revealed that 88% of IT stakeholders in the UAE were planning budget increases for cloud computing. Across the GCC, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has acted as an accelerant to digital transformation, with the International Data Corporation projecting that the Gulf’s public cloud market alone will more than double over the next four years, from $956 million in 2020 to $2.35 billion in 2024. IDC also predicted that hybrid clouds will grow in popularity.
But many organisations in heavily regulated industries such as banking, oil and gas, and government have had to consider issues such as privacy and data residency when planning their migration journeys. The Qualys UAE Cloud platform will eliminate these barriers and will act as the company’s main hub for the Middle East.
The Qualys UAE Cloud will offer all the company’s key solutions including VMDR; Multi-Vector EDR; Global IT Asset Inventory; Configuration Management; Certificate Inventory; Threat Protection; Continuous Monitoring; Patch Management; Container Security; Web Application Scanning; and Web Application Firewalls.
The Qualys Cloud Platform, already trusted by businesses across the country and the region, will now support several local compliance requirements, such as the Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre’s Information Security Policy and the UAE Information Assurance Regulation. It will also allow Qualys’ partners, such as managed service providers the opportunity to offer cloud services to sectors that are highly regulated.
