Reports and Coverage

By: Anas Al-Hammouri, regional sales manager, Telco and SPs, Middle East & Turkey at Infoblox

To define security and assurance requirements for smartphones and tablets, mitigate potential risks and protect users, ETSI has released a world-class standard ETSI TS 103 732, called ‘Consumer Mobile Device Protection Profile’. The specification identifies key security and privacy risks for user data and provides appropriate protection.

The annual Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit will be back in its 15^th edition on December 8^th at Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City, UAE. The Summit will be both physical and virtual which will allow panelists to join the panel discussions in Dubai from anywhere in the world and anyone will be able to virtually participate.

With the company’s growth, F5’s product development center is expanding its operations in Hyderabad with a new floor in The Skyview building that will seat an additional 450 employees, bringing the total seating capacity to over 900. To support the growth of the company, the F5 product development center will be led by Rohit Arya who comes in with over 30 years of experience in the industry.

Distributed system architectures, including Cloud and big data are changing how network data in organizations is viewed. Network-generated data analysis is increasingly gaining momentum with service providers for network detection and response (NDR) as well as improving the overall quality of customer experience by gaining insight of the network activities and acting upon the flaws.

Hai Tran has been appointed as CSG’s new executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective by November 29.

The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) confirmed that the Electronic Transactions and Trust Services Law promulgated by Federal Decree-Law No. 46 of 2021 starts a new stage of comprehensive digital transformation in the UAE. The new law enhances the digital economy and consolidates the UAE’s position to become one of the leading countries in providing digital services. It will accelerate the achievement of national goals and indicators such as the Online Services Index (OSI), Ease of Doing Business Index, the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index, the Global Competitiveness Index as well as innovation indices.

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) in Jordan has launched a new groundbreaking initiative to increase regional and international investments in the kingdom’s digital outsourcing economy.

In the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed Bin Khalid Al-Abdullah Al-Faisal, chairman of the board of directors of stc Group, the minister of communications and information technology, His Excellency Eng. Abdullah Bin Amer Al-Sawaha, visited the stc stall during the @Hack event.

NetEvents hosted a virtual webinar titled ‘AI with everything the future of artificial intelligence in networking’ on Nov 17 in partnership with IDC.