The UAE is staking its global leadership in securing Smart City services and protecting critical national infrastructure.<\/p>\n
In the interconnected Internet of Things era, the UAE is one of the world\u2019s best-prepared countries in cybersecurity, ranking 17 out of 105 countries by the United Nations\u2019 International Telecommunications Union. The Dubai government also recently launched its Cyber Security Strategic Plan to enhance protection of government services.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs more Smart City and government services become digitized, the Internet of Things is a cyberattack force multiplier, with critical national infrastructure especially at risk. The UAE government is at the global forefront of protecting Smart Cities and providing residents with peace of mind while using government services,\u201d said Andrew Calthorpe, CEO at the UAE-based Smart City consultancy Condo Protego.<\/p>\n
With the number of connected devices more than doubling from 23 billion in 2016 to 50 billion by 2020, cyberattacks will shift to \u201cdisruptive\u201d and \u201cdestructive\u201d attacks, especially on the hybrid cloud, mobile devices, and critical national infrastructure, according to a report by cybersecurity firm RSA presented at the recent RSA Conference Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
As a result, Condo Protego is seeing strong UAE public sector demand for cybersecurity solutions with advanced threat detection and response, such as RSA\u2019s Security Analytics.<\/p>\n
\u201cChannel partners are vital for guiding public sector adoption of cloud or on-premise solutions to future-proof services, and the cybersecurity solutions with the full visibility, analysis, and action to prevent cyberattacks in real-time,\u201d added Andrew Calthorpe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The UAE is staking its global leadership in securing Smart City services and protecting critical national infrastructure. In the interconnected Internet of Things era, the UAE is one of the world\u2019s best-prepared countries in cybersecurity, ranking 17 out of 105 countries by the United Nations\u2019 International Telecommunications Union. The Dubai government also recently launched its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"1","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_pr_autopilot_social_copy":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_extra_hide_author_box":"1","_extra_featured_post":"","_partner_post_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n