ISSUE # 94
Security Advisor ME April 2025
Yahya Kassab, Senior Director & GM – KSA & Gulf, Commvault, shares strategic insights on the UAE’s cybersecurity evolution; embracing …
Sophos
Gerard Allison, Senior Vice-President of Sales for EMEA at Sophos, discusses cybersecurity trends, AI-driven security solutions, and the evolving threat landscape in the UAE with CPI Media Group.
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What’s Inside
Security Operations Centres to face greater challenges in the coming year
0 23476SOCs to face greater challenges from cybercriminals targeting governments and media.
How Chinese bitcoin manufacturers are circumventing U.S. tariffs
0 25Establishing U.S. bases could shield them from tariffs but risks stoking security concerns the U.S. has with China in areas as varied as chip making and energy security.
Adobe releases dedicated AI-image generation app
0 21The company had promised users that its AI model is trained only on material that it has a legal right to use, with Adobe offering protection against copyright claims.
Amazon’s workforce looks to shrink in the face of AI
0 29Other technology companies have been observed using AI to write code for their products and internal operations.
SentinelOne improves cloud migration for AWS customers
0 44With real-time protection, deep visibility, and end-to-end workload security from on-prem to cloud, SentinelOne secures every step of the cloud migration journey with AWS.
Microsoft announces measures to protect European Cloud Data
0 48European companies and governments have been increasingly worrying about their data being moved outside the continent into the hands of other countries.
Redington ReInspire 2025 celebrates 25-years of innovation and access
0 78Landmark event honours partnerships, unveils new leadership, and charts the future of digital enablement across MEA. Redington marked a significant …
Trump launches smartphone mobile service
0 72The new mobile venture will include call centres based in the United States and phones made in America.
UK to explore ‘clean’ air travel
0 113The funding announcement came ahead of the government's industrial strategy and which will aim to help grow the country's defence and advanced manufacturing sectors.
Italy raises concerns over false info from DeepSeek
0 83AGCM has opened an investigation into Chinese AI startup DeepSeek for allegedly failing to warn users that it may produce false information.
Trump-Musk feud leads to reevaluation of SpaceX contracts
0 108The review shows the administration is following through on a threat by Trump during his spat with Musk to possibly terminate business and subsidies for Musk ventures.
Toshiba outlines how best to revitalise your hard drive for a long lifespan
0 148Rainer W. Kaese, Senior Manager Business Development Storage Products Toshiba Electronics Europe, outlines optimal operating conditions for hard drives and the best practices to help avoid device failure.
Dataiku launches new FSI Blueprint designed to accelerate Agentic AI in financial services
0 125Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform™ has announced a new FSI Blueprint for deploying agentic AI systems in financial services. This …
Amazon to invest billions in Australian data centre ecosystem
0 167Companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google have been ramping up data centre investments to secure market share and meet AI workload requirements.
Cyberattack hits Microsoft Accounts of Washington Post journalists
0 150The reporters whose emails were targeted included members of the national security and economic policy teams.
Taiwan tightens export control on Huawei
0 181Taiwan has also repeatedly vowed to crack down on what it says are efforts by Chinese companies, including SMIC, to steal technology and entice chip talent away from the island.
MWC25 Doha focuses on advancing next-gen digital societies
0 178MWC25 Doha will bring together industry leaders, policymakers and innovators from around the world, with a focus on advancing the next generation of digital societies in the Middle East and globally.
Meta makes strategic investment in Scale AI
0 158Meta will take a 49% stake for $14.3 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Will you love your AI twin?
0 433Imagine discovering that somewhere in the expanded universe, a version of you solves problems faster, thinks clearer, and never needs …
Opinion: TeKnowledge CTO on the Enterprise AI Execution Gap
0 543Mahmood Lockhat, Chief Technology Officer at TeKnowledge, discusses the execution gap faced by many organisations when it comes to AI and how their new partnership with Kore.ai aims to address this in this exclusive op-ed.
AMD takes steps to ‘Advance AI’
0 225AMD said that many aspects of the Helios servers - such as the networking standards - would be made openly available and shared with competitors such as Intel
US puts limits on Huawei’s AI manufacturing
0 248US mandates that China's Huawei can't exceed production of 200,000 AI chips in 2025.
Google suffers brief global service outage
0 216The outage began around 1:50 p.m. ET on 12/6/2025 and there were 14,729 reports of Google Cloud being down in the U.S.
Hoko Agency acquires Everdome for creative AI venture
0 211UAE-based Hoko Agency Acquires Everdome to Strengthen HumAIn Assets – A New Creative AI Venture.
NTT DATA launches AI powered software defined infrastructure services for Cisco
0 370Reimagined Software Defined Infrastructure services enhance optimisation, reduce costs and accelerate transformation in the era of AI Dubai — NTT …
Strategy One delivers personalized AI experiences in the UAE
0 239Atul Kaul, EVP International at Strategy One, discusses the potential for their AI agents to inform data-driven decision-making in this exclusive Q&A.
How AI is Revolutionising Warehousing Intralogistics
0 217Alexander Honigmann, Director, Transportation and Logistics, EMEA, Zebra Technologies, outlines the improvements that artificial intelligence has brought to modern warehouses by reworking the scale of data analytics.
Amazon enters nuclear energy partnership to power data centres
0 196Both companies will also explore building new Small Modular Reactors within Talen's Pennsylvania footprint and pursue expanding the nuclear plant's energy output.
Google appoints new Chief AI Architect
0 281Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead AI-powered product development as chief architect.
Oracle anticipates strong demand for its cloud offerings
0 230For fiscal year 2026, Oracle expects total revenue to be at least $67 billion, Safra Catz CEO said on a post-earnings call.