InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, will take part in the GITEX Technology Week, a Gulf information technology conference, to be held in Dubai on October 14-18, 2018. As part of the exhibition, for the first time InfoWatch Group will show Middle East customers a new version of its InfoWatch Traffic Monitor solution designed to ensure enterprise information security in Microsoft Office 365 cloud.
According to the Global Healthcare Data Breach Report prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center for 2017, the number of registered personal data leaks worldwide, including social security numbers, credit card details, specific health records, and medical histories of patients, dropped by 7.7% (down to 370 cases) YoY, with the volume of records compromised as a result of data leaks almost halving (from 26.8 million to 14.2 million records). At the same time, the number of healthcare data leaks skyrocketed (more than twofold) in Russia.
InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, has summarized the first-year results of InfoWatch Gulf, its office in the Middle East. A year ago, InfoWatch became the first Russian DLP provider to open a full-service office in Dubai (UAE).
InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, will become a general partner of international Business Information Security Summit (BIS Summit) 2018 to be held on September 14, 2018, at Ukraina Hotel's Congress Park (Moscow). BIS Summit 2018 will focus on information security convergence in the modern digital world.
As part of educational cooperation between InfoWatch and the Emirate of Ajman, students of Ajman University’s College of Information Technology (UAE) have completed an intern training at InfoWatch Gulf, a Middle East representative office of InfoWatch Group. The 6-week training program developed by InfoWatch Group specialists covered the study of the vendor’s business processes and the operating of its enterprise cybersecurity systems.
As part of the Russian delegation, Kristina Tantsyura, Business Development Director for the Middle East at InfoWatch Group and CEO of InfoWatch Gulf, has joined a meeting of Konstantin Noskov, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, and Ihab Nasr, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Russia.
InfoWatch Analytical Center has released a global report on publicly known enterprise data leaks triggered by destructive actions of leaving or dismissed employees. In 2017, over 50% of all cases were associated with unauthorized data copying and transmission to third parties, including competitors.
Kristina Tantsyura, Director for Business Development in the Middle East at InfoWatch Group and CEO of InfoWatch Gulf, has taken part in the 8th meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian-UAE Commission on Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation held in the city of Kazan and joined by Denis Manturov, Russian Minister of Trade and Industry, Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, as well as government officials and business representatives from both countries.
InfoWatch Group has unveiled InfoWatch Traffic Monitor 6.10, a new release of its flagship DLP solution protecting enterprises against data leaks and internal cyber threats. The new release expands secured corporate network perimeter to cover cloud services and mobile devices, while its upgraded InfoWatch Vision analytics module monitors information security at geographically distributed organizations.
Kristina Tantsyura, CEO of InfoWatch Gulf, the InfoWatch Group’s representative office in the Middle East, has been elected a board member of the Russian Business Council in Dubai, UAE, to become the first IT industry spokesperson in the board since the council establishment. In the board, Kristina Tantsyura will supervise Innovation Technologies and IT and will be in charge of engaging new technology and IT companies from Russia to join the council and strengthening relationships with industry-specific government agencies and businesses of UAE.