What is the greatest problem that enterprises in the Middle East face today in terms of IT security?
Mike Andrews. Middle Eastern businesses are exposed by system, data and compliance risks associated with their inability to identify either inadvertent or intentional malicious activity by their own employees or external sources. This includes fraud, policy violations such as people having personally identifiable information (PII) on their PC, IP theft and malicious code being deployed on the network. The risk is that businesses believe they are protected by the myriad of ‘perimeter defense’ systems that they’ve deployed, such as AV and IPS, but this doesn’t stop employees within the perimeter acting inappropriately or sophisticated hackers penetrating the network and deploying rogue code. Enterprises often have little understanding of the extent to which incidents are happening and believe that it can’t be a big problem if they’re not hearing about it more. The truth is that incidents happen everyday. If left unchecked the organization is vulnerable to a major incident that will leave
