Both companies aim to instill a CRQ mindset and help enterprises gain rich insights about their cyber risk posture with the real-time, enterprise-wide breach- likelihood score

StarLink, the fastest growing “True” Value-added Distributor (VAD) in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region, today announced partnership with Safe Security for distribution of their unified and real-time risk quantification platform, in the META region.

Safe Security, a pioneer in the ‘Cybersecurity and Digital Business Risk Quantification’ (CRQ) space facilitates organizations to measure and mitigate enterprise-wide cyber risk using its Security Assessment Framework for Enterprises (SAFE) platform. This quantified and consistent real-time cyber risk metrics empowers enterprises to make informed business decisions and most importantly identifies a Dollar Value Risk an organization is likely to face. By 2025, they envision to become the global de-facto industry standard to measure and mitigate cyber risk.

Mr. Zaidoun Arbad, Chief Operating Officer, StarLink commented, “It is extremely crucial for organizations to identify risk scenarios that are most likely to affect them, gauge the financial impact and align their security infrastructure. Taking a quantitative approach is a persuasive idea that can help CISOs and CROs to bolster risk management and mitigate any potential cybersecurity breaches. Our collaboration with Safe Security is aimed at bringing about a paradigm shift in the mindset of customers in this region and empower them to adopt a risk-intelligent response tactic to tackle cyber threats.”

“Safe Security’s mission is to create a safer digital future, by helping organizations understand their breach likelihood in real-time and the economic loss that comes with it. To that end, we are delighted to partner with StarLink, an elite security-focused distributor in the region. It is a natural choice to partner with StarLink, given their comprehensive reach and rich cybersecurity solution portfolio. It allows us to help them provide a strategic umbrella to how these portfolios are leveraged by customers in the most effective manner,” said Dr. Cherif Sleiman, Chief Revenue Officer, EMEA at Safe Security.

Ivanti – the automation platform that discovers, manages, secures, and services IT assets from cloud to edge – will be at GITEX to showcase its latest innovations that empower working from any location.

With COVID-19 and the acceleration of digitalisation, securing various endpoints and supporting employees to work from different locations, has become more challenging. Ivanti has made it its mission to enable the Everywhere Workplace with critical IT solutions safeguarding against ransomware attacks and viruses and providing patch management.

Ivanti will exhibit at the computer and electronics trade show, exhibition and conference taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre in Dubai from the 17th until the 21st of October 2021.

The three main new innovations that Ivanti will exhibit at the conference are Ivanti Security Controls, Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare and the Ivanti mobile phishing risk calculator. All products can be activated universally, are cost-effective, provide uninterrupted threat intelligence and actionable insights, mitigate data loss and are flexible in their deployment:

• Ivanti Security Controls simplifies security with unified and automated prevention, detection, and response techniques that target big attack vectors. It provides the highest barriers to modern cyber-attacks, including discovery, OS and application patch management, privilege management, and whitelisting.

• Ivanti Neurons for Healthcare delivers the complete picture of IT across healthcare facilities by discovering and intelligently profiling medical devices and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), assessing security risks, reporting threats, and reconciling device information across multiple data sources.

• Ivanti mobile phishing risk calculator protects against mobile phishing, leveraging a multi-tiered approach to phishing protection and remediation to support the best security posture for organizations. The Ivanti Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) is built into the Ivanti UEM for mobile clients so that admins can achieve 100% user adoption.

Mohammad Alshare, Managing Director, Ivanti Middle East and North Africa said: “We are extremely proud of our achievements and technological advancements at Ivanti and the new products that we get to showcase at GITEX. We are focused on making your Everywhere Workplace possible as we believe that with well-defined processes and the right tools, we can Discover, Manage, Secure and Service any endpoint.”

Recent milestones include winning the Eleven 2021 MUSE Creative Awards for Everywhere Workplace Brand Launch and being named leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for IT Service Management Tools for Second Consecutive Year.

Samer Hani, Regional Director at Ivanti, said: “GITEX is always a great time for us to connect with our partners and customers alike and to see what other technological products are coming onto the market. It is the more exciting this year as it will be the biggest tech event to be held live and in person in the region.”

You can find Ivanti at Stand H1 – B20 in Hall 1 across the duration of GITEX.