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Police look to AI, robots to make Dubai the world’s safest big city

As part of the Smart Dubai 2021 initiative, Dubai Police are developing AI applications and u2018robocopsu2019. They're also working to overcome concerns of the residents they are serving.

26 Jul 2020 6 mins
Artificial Intelligence Government Robotics
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Gulf IT leaders learn business continuity lessons during COVID crisis

Jason Roos, CIO at KAUST; Mohamed Mousa, CISO at IKEA Saudi Arabia /Bahrain; and Faisal Ali, Group CIO at Gargash Group, explain how business continuity plans helped keep their organizations working during the coronavirus outbreak.

13 Jul 2020
Business Continuity IT Leadership IT Strategy
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Security report: Data on 25,000 UAE police put on sale on web forum

Security firm CloudSek says that personally identifiable information on UAE police officers has been put up for sale on a data-sharing web forum; the source of the data is unknown.

11 Jul 2020
Data and Information Security Security
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What is the Risk Management Framework (RMF)? A standardized security framework

Risk management and security are top concerns for most organizations, especially in government industries. The Risk Management Framework (RMF) integrates security into the early development stages to help speed up time to delivery while avoiding risk

9 Jul 2020
IT Governance Frameworks Risk Management Security
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Emirates NBD accelerates spending on digital transformation, security

Broadcom is committed to helping organizations and governments meet their digital transformation and data-sovereignty needs

11 Feb 2025 5 mins
Cloud Management Cloud Security
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Emirates NBD accelerates spending on digital transformation, security

Hisham Mohamed, CISO of the financial institution's Egyptian arm, explains how the bank is integrating a new transaction platform into its IT infrastructure, and taking a more proactive cyberscecurity stance.

28 Jun 2020 5 mins
Digital Transformation Financial Services Industry IT Strategy
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3 steps to developing a risk response advisory system

Much like DEFCON is used in the U.S. Armed Forces to react to changing threat levels, your enterprise needs its own PANDCON to deal with changing pandemic conditions. Here's how to get started.

23 Jun 2020 5 mins
Business Continuity Disaster Recovery IT Leadership
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Q&A: How Saudi Arabia is securing its $500 billion smart city, Neom

Mike Loginov, Neom's CISO, explains how he is taking on the enormous task of building an intelligent and reliable security system for the mega smart city -- really a cluster of multiple towns and cities in an area the size of Belgium.

10 Jun 2020
Internet of Things Security
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UAE CIOs learn lessons about IT, and people, in the coronavirus crisis

Tech executives from the education and law sectors tell CIO Middle East about how their companies are navigating the coronavirus crisis, and how they have adapted their IT strategies.

3 Jun 2020
Business Continuity IT Leadership IT Strategy
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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s ally during the COVID crisis: Telehealth

Telemedicine, artificial intelligence and mobile applications help control and combat COVID-19 in the UAE.rnrn

2 Jun 2020
Artificial Intelligence Business Continuity Healthcare Industry
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Iran-linked group hacked Kuwait, Saudi transport, government entities

Bitdefender reports that hacking group Chafer attacked government-affiliated entities in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, after a history of targeting Iranian individuals as well as Middle East government entities, airlines and telecom companies.

24 May 2020
Hacking Security