cyber trends
Micro Focus recently acquired Interset
which performs unsupervised Machine
Learning, which is really the next step
in the journey. Today, none of us tend
to behave normally, routines are being
disrupted. I may be going to the office
from nine to five, but now there are days
that I have to work overtime, or work
from home. In unsupervised learning, it
learns your habits over a period of time,
rather than simply setting parameters or
rules. The system is collecting data and
learning the users and then providing
intelligence. We see the market is asking
for this because it is very difficult now to
put somebody into a framework.
How is Micro Focus helping
your customers keep their data
both safe and compliant within
changing regulatory frameworks?
At Micro Focus we want to make it easy
for our customers to stay compliant, no
matter what governance they have to
adhere to. We’ve done this by building
packages that address particular
regulatory frameworks.
These are ready-made packages that
are tailored to keep customers compliant
within frameworks like NESA or GDPR
– you simply need to choose which
package applies to you.
From there we can customise the
solution for each customer depending
on their needs, which enables them to
stay compliant within the applicable
governance laws.
Micro Focus provides a great
deal of training in addition to
your portfolio of solutions.
Why does Micro Focus put an
emphasis on training?
It comes down again to people,
processes and technology. There needs
to be a balance between those three
and training addresses people directly.
I am a big fan of doing customised
workshops that address the needs of
each customer.
There is, of course, a place for package
trainings, but when you listen to
customer input like Micro Focus does,
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we can invest time to provide customised
training and use-case based workshops.
We have this kind of insight in part
because last year we brought in a few
customers to actually be a part of Micro
Focus. They were in customer facing
roles and we took them on because we
wanted to have a customer advocate
inside the company who could explain
to us how we can bring value to the
customer from a first-person point of
view. This has been incredibly helpful.
We are also putting a lot of effort into
bringing the partner community up to
a certain level of expertise, which will
then lead to our customers feeling more
comfortable. We are doing this through
our L 400 trainings. These trainings are
also available for customers to attend,
but the fact is if we can bring the partner
ecosystem up to the same level of
expertise as us then they can act as an
extension of us.
We give developers Fortify, our
Application Security Software in
the coding process, so rather
than implementing security
after the code is written,
security is built into the
code itself. We educate
them and become part of
their ecosystem.
We manage data when it is at
rest, in transit and in use. We have
a solution called Voltage which can
protect data throughout its journey.
Finally, there is identities management
and governance. We need to know
who the users are that are coming into
your organisation and what access and
permissions they might need. Whether
you are a 50-man operation or a 5,000-
man operation, managing identities is a
complex and ongoing process. We try to
make it as simple as possible by providing
a suite of solutions that can give you
proper visibility into your environment. u
Now we are looking to localise both the L
400 and bootcamp training within the UAE
and other parts of the region. We have
been doing two or three training sessions
per quarter which have been extremely
successful. For us as Micro Focus, these
aren’t about sales, it is about creating
people with expertise that can make
informed decisions. Of course, we hope
they would make informed decisions in our
favour, but at the end of the day we are
creating a community that everyone can
appreciate and benefit from.
The threat landscape is
constantly changing, with new
threats emerging all of the
time. How does Micro Focus
help customers stay ahead of
the game?
We have our fundamentals. We protect
data, applications and identities and to
do that we focus on people, processes
and technology. All of our solutions
are grounded in those fundamentals.
At the end of the day these are the
important aspects. We weave security
into the beginning of the development
process. When developers write code,
they aren’t thinking of security, they are
thinking of functionality.
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