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Agreement signed
to launch Oman’s
first cybersecurity
accelerator
he Ministry of Technology and
Communications in Oman
has signed an agreement to
launch the country’s first specialised
cybersecurity accelerator. This has been
achieved in co-operation with the Oman–
Britain Digital Centre and Takween, the
annual investment programme affiliated
to Oman Technology Fund.
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The project is a significant milestone
for the whole Middle East and it aims
to support companies operating in the
cybersecurity sector. The programme,
which has been dubbed as the ‘Sas
Accelerator’, has been designed
especially for individuals and groups to
serve as a business think-tank. This will
provide for the development of business
ideas in the field of cybersecurity
and the encouragement of digitalised
entrepreneurship. It will provide scope
for improving efficient work models and
building vital leadership skills with the
aim of enabling participants to take
steps necessary that will lead to the
growth of their companies.
The agreement was signed by Hassan
bin Fida al-Lawati, Director General of
the Digital Community Development
Sector at the Ministry of Technology
and Communications, and the adviser
of the British Embassy in Muscat. The
ministry, together with Oman Broadband
and Ooredoo, has recently launched the
high-speed Oman Government Network
(OGN). This network is an integrated
and safe government network that meets
the future demands of e.oman projects.
ENTERPRISES EXPOSED AS 45,000
DATA LOSS INCIDENTS ARE MISSED
EVERY MONTH
cAfee, the device-to-cloud
cybersecurity company, has
released a new research
study entitled Enterprise Supernova:
The Data Dispersion Cloud Adoption
and Risk Report.
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The results describe the broad
distribution of data across devices
and the cloud, highlighting critical
gaps for enterprise security.
A total of 79% of companies
surveyed store sensitive data in the
public cloud.
While these companies approve an
average of 41 cloud services each,
up 33% from last year, thousands
of other services are used ad-hoc
without vetting. In addition, 52% of
companies use cloud services that
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have had user data stolen in a breach.
As part of this report, McAfee surveyed
1,000 enterprise organisations in 11
countries and investigated anonymised
events from 30 million enterprise cloud
users to gain a holistic view of modern
data dispersion.
“The force of the cloud is unstoppable,
and the dispersion of data creates new
opportunities for both growth and risk,”
said Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President,
Cloud Security, McAfee.
“Security that is data-centric, creating
a spectrum of controls from the
device, through the web, into the cloud
and within the cloud provides the
opportunity to break the paradigm of
yesterday’s network-centric protection
that is not sufficient for today’s cloud-
first needs.”
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