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BUSINESS surveillance number continues to grow. Our platform also allows complete policy customisation. An organisation’ s compliance posture is shown on a single dashboard and is integrated with every other relevant feature. Compliance reports are simple to create and export, showing an itemised resource list and their pass / fail / accepted risk posture status, making regulatory audits and prioritised remediations simple.

Cloud adoption in the ME is slow, as 58 % of companies remain entirely on-premises. Do you anticipate this to change in the next few years as cloud service providers become more secure?
The Middle East is home to many innovative and tech-savvy countries and businesses and while a majority still operate fully on-premises, the region’ s cloud landscape is rapidly evolving. Major cloud service providers are still in the early stages of establishing regional data centres, but we’ re seeing a surge of local providers and strategic partnerships
Cloud adoption will continue to rapidly accelerate.
between global and regional entities amid rapid growth across the Middle Eastern tech industry. With national plans like Saudi Vision 2030 and the UAE’ s National Cloud Security Policy encouraging tech innovation and modern digital infrastructure, cloud adoption will continue to rapidly accelerate.
Furthermore, as regional confidence in secure cloud-native platforms and compliance capabilities grows, more organisations will migrate critical workloads to the cloud. We can expect to see a sharp increase in hybrid and multi-cloud usage across all industries. The cloud is the best place to innovate and the Middle East will continue to embrace that innovation securely.
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