DOHA: Vodafone recently participated in the second Qatar Central Bank organised conference on Information Security titled “Enhancing IT security in the financial sector in today’s world” that highlighted information security challenges and ways to improve the country’s infrastructure.
In a panel discussion that explored the financial sector impact of cyber threats targeting the GCC energy and health sector, Farrukh Ahmed, Vodafone’s Chief Information & Technology Security Officer, said” “Learning about cyber threats and sharing that information across industries is the cornerstone of ensuring our business dependent technology systems remain secure and continue to operate. It was good to see that the Qatar financial sector is also heading in this direction and learning from the experiences of other sectors, especially those that also operate critical national infrastructure. Vodafone is committed to bringing our global expertise in implementing security solutions to support Qatar National Vision 2030.”
Cyber crime is a major threat to financial institutions not just in Qatar but globally. This has forced many companies to invest heavily in adoption of cyber protection measures which is helping them in managing the growing customer concerns and think a step ahead from the culprits.
Vodafone displayed their various security solutions at the conference including DDoS mitigation, co-location and dedicated APN. The DDoS mitigation solution provides assured connectivity to dedicated Internet customers enabling safer communications over the internet. DDoS protection is deployed within the core of Vodafone’s Internet network. Co-location provides the ability to host a company’s IT equipment in a purpose-built data centre with greater security, resilience and network performance.
Co-location provides robust protection of complex IT environments and Dedicated APN provides private mobile data connections for added security in an organisation.
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