On 19th of September, 2024 SearchInform experts will participate in CyberX MENA and hold a keynote presentation, revealing essential techniques for ensuring data safety and advantages of in-house and outsourcing approaches to ensuring internal threat protection.

The 2-nd Edition CyberX MENA Summit & Awards is a gathering of the region's leading industry experts. It serves as a platform for maintaining dialogue and exchange of best practices&insights, related to future trends in the sphere of cyber security.

As the overall number of data-related incidents is increasing and their consequences become more severe, importance of ensuring appropriate data protection is becoming increasingly significant in the MENA region. According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 by IBM, the average cost of a data breach for companies in the Middle East was estimated as of $8,75 million, reaching an all-time peak. The significance of the issue stipulate regulators to develop new regulations, creating a need for local companies to ensure that information protection and compliance are up to par. This is accompanied with the challenges in ensuring protection and compliance, such as shortage of qualified personnel, global growth of the cybersecurity skills gap, which has risen by 26.2% since 2023, and limited budgets for information security.

During CyberX MENA, SearchInform experts will reveal, how businesses&organizations, regardless of their size and sphere of business activity can ensure comprehensive protection against the widest range of internal risks, protect confidential data, address the cyber security skills shortage and timely adapt to regulatory requirements.

Visitors will have the opportunity to discuss information security issues with SearchInform experts offline on a one-to-one basis, get expert advise on how to ensure protection against insider threats, learn best practices of mitigation the risks of data leakage and prevention of cases of corporate fraud, avoiding financial and reputational losses and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. 

Sergey Ozhegov, CEO of SearchInform, will hold a keynote presentation on "How to ensure protection against internal threats: in-house vs outsourcing" topic. During the speech the expert will reveal, how the current trend of MSS is reshaping the approach to information security and for whom the option will be the most beneficial. Basing on the real-life case studies, the expert will share the industry best practices. After the presentation attendees will have the opportunity to ask expert their questions in person during the question-and-answer session. 

SearchInform is actively expanding its presence in the MENA market. The company experts are regular participants of IT and IS conferences, such as  Gitex GLOBAL and GISEC, the team recently won the Leadership in Digital Risk Protection Award at the Cyber Strategists Summit. SearchInform also organizes its own Roadshow conferences, as well as regular training sessions for customers and partners to help improve the security of local businesses against the insider threat and to help companies comply with regulatory requirements.

About the company

SearchInform is a provider of products for information security and risk management, as well as a provider of managed security services. The company's clients are more than 4000 companies in 20+ countries. Today, the team has products and services for comprehensive protection against insider threats at all levels of corporate information systems: FileAuditor (the DCAP class solution); DLP system with extended functionality; Risk Monitor (advanced platform for internal threat mitigation); SIEM system, IS outsourcing service.