Dubai: Emerging technology paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), which is defined as the network of devices that are connected to the internet and can be controlled remotely, are expected to add $14 trillion to the world’s 20 largest economies by 2030. That’s one fifth of current global GDP.
Necip Ozyucel, Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Lead at Microsoft Gulf, said there is no doubt that the future of humankind is digital. But in the Middle East and Africa, many businesses are held back from fully realising digital transformation because of a lack of a robust and agile IT security policy.
According to researchandmarkets.com, in 2015, half of all GCC organisations were subjected to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, where websites and applications are taken offline by massive volumes of external resource requests. In the same period, 45 per cent of UAE social media users were victims of cyber crime. For the full article click here
from cyber security caucus http://ift.tt/2asAfnf
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment