Help AG and Forcepoint partner to enable
Middle East enterprises to protect their
data from breaches and insider threats
n a move that strengthens its
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ability to enable Middle East
businesses to protect their
data against breaches, insider threats
and cyberattacks, Help AG, a leading
cybersecurity solutions, services and
consultancy provider, has entered into
a partnership with global cybersecurity
leader, Forcepoint. While the agreement
extends across Forcepoint’s entire
product portfolio, Help AG will focus
particularly on the vendor’s unique
dynamic security protection offerings,
Dynamic Data Protection, Dynamic
Edge Protection and Dynamic User
Protection, offering these to enterprises
in the UAE and KSA.
“Data is one of the most valuable
assets for businesses and its protection
is therefore a top priority. Middle East
organisations are looking to safeguard
their data, not just for compliance
purposes, but also because of the
potential impact breaches can have
on Business Continuity and brand
reputation,” said Stephan Berner,
Stephan Berner, CEO at Help AG
Data is one of the
most valuable assets
for businesses and its
protection is therefore
a top priority.
CEO at Help AG. Research by the
Ponemon Institute has shown that the
impact of data breaches has been
especially severe for Middle East
organisations. The region reports
the world’s highest average number
of breached records at 38,000 per
incident with the average cost of each
data breach averaging at nearly US$6
million. Both these figures are about
50% more than the global average.
“Forcepoint’s security solutions perfectly
complement the rest of our portfolio and
its model has the benefit of supporting
both cloud and on-premises deployment
options. Furthermore, its open platform
strategy facilitates seamless integration
with other industry-leading solutions.
We can therefore leverage its products
to build comprehensive, multi-vendor
solutions that protect the entire data life
cycle for our clients, whether in the cloud
or in private data centres,” said Berner.
Forcepoint offers next-generation DLP,
which overcomes the rigidity and hurdles
of traditional DLP by reducing alert
volumes, false positives and alarms to
focus on what matters. Forcepoint is
a nine-time leader in Gartner’s Magic
Quadrant for Enterprise DLP and its
solutions protect organisations from
information leaks and data loss at the
perimeter, inside the organisation and in
enterprise cloud apps, including Office
365, Box and Salesforce.
The vendor’s DLP solution includes
an analytics engine that identifies and
ranks high-risk incidents, reducing false
positives and enabling businesses to
isolate problems faster.
Dynamic Data Protection employs
behavioural analytics and Machine
Learning in its solution to examine and
assess user behaviour. By understanding
attributes like typical access patterns
of users, this individualised, adaptive
security protects enterprises against
malicious user actions such as data
exfiltration or unauthorised access to
critical assets and systems.
“As business models evolve to meet the
challenges of Digital Transformation,
the way that organisations adapt their
data protection strategies will prove
critical. By moving to a human-centric
approach which places the data and the
understanding of user behaviour at the
centre of their design, organisations can
proactively protect themselves,” said
Gihan Kovacs, Senior Country Manager
for UAE and Pakistan at Forcepoint.
“Help AG has a proven track record
in rapidly assessing and embracing
best of breed technologies that solve
key cybersecurity challenges. We are
confident that with its expertise and
support we will be ready to successfully
engage with and serve a broader
segment of Middle East enterprises.” u
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