IT security landscape evolves as organisations change strategies: eHosting DataFort

Organisations across the Middle East are placing more emphasison managing their security investments as they brace themselves for the prospect of increased vulnerabilities. In a world that is more seamlessly connected than ever before, such vulnerabilities arise as organizations strive to meet internal and external customers’ expectations, according to Yasser Zeineldin, Chief Executive Officer at eHosting DataFort.

Zeineldin’s comments concur with eHosting DataFort’s participation at the IDC IT Security Road-show, organised by the global research and advisory firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

The event held today at Atlantis, The Palm, the event brought together global security experts to discuss business models ofinformation security, IT security as a business enabler, optimising security architectures and security in a virtualised environment. Other topics will include social media concerns, security as a service, security audits, data loss prevention and security in the cloud.

Yasser Zeineldin, Chief Executive Officer, eHosting DataFort, said: “We realize that security is of utmost concern to both SMBs and large enterprises and security solutions are undergoing a rapid revolution in terms of delivery models with security as an outsourced service gaining popularity. This is primarily due to the highly specialized security skills and tools offered by a service provider that are difficult to source in-house.

“IDC’s IT Security Road-showoffersa platform for eHosting DataFort to showcase our security and advisory services portfolio including Remote Managed Security Services that was recently launched as a part of our overall security services offering.”

The road-show drewattendees from banking, financial services, transportation, utilities, logistics, telecommunications, government, public administration, manufacturing and trade.

With world-class data centres, resilient and scalable infrastructure and round-the-clock managed operations, eHosting DataFort has established itself as a market leader in the field of hosting and managed IT services. eHosting DataFort has been recognized for its innovative use of new technology in 2009, Best Colocation Facility in 2010 and was also awarded the region’s ‘Best Managed Service Provider of the Year’ in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.