PAN-OS 10.2 Nebula: Deep Learning Protection For Network Security
How can you harness the processing power of the cloud to detect threats and interpret zero-days in real time more effectively than ever before? Nicolai Solling, CTO at Help AG sits down with Tarek Abbas, Senior SE Director of Emerging Markets at Palo Alto Networks who introduces the industry’s first inline deep learning protection for […]
Top Middle East Cyber Threats – 6 June 2022
At Help AG, our Managed Security Services (MSS) team offers 24x7x365 monitoring of complex IT security infrastructures to some of the largest enterprises in the region. As a result, we have our eyes keenly fixed on the cybersecurity threat landscape and are among the first in the region to learn and act upon new threats. […]
From The CTO’s Office
Dear Reader, It is with great pleasure that we are presenting you with Help AG’s Q2 2022 Threats and Vulnerabilities Report. In these quarterly reports we take a step back to look at the data we acquire from our operations to identify cybersecurity trends that impact the region. Due to the vast amount of data […]
Message From The Head Of MSS
Help AG is the cybersecurity arm of e& enterprise and an industry-leading cybersecurity services and solutions provider, homegrown in the UAE. In December 2021, Help AG launched the service-centric delivery model, that we call “Help AG as a Service”. This model is built on state-of-the-art tools and processes that are run by skilled cybersecurity professionals. […]
An Investigation Into The BlackCat Ransomware
An infamous Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), BlackCat/ALPHV, managed to compromise more than 60 entities around the world, as published by the FBI. Using Rust programming language to build the ransomware, it enables fast performance to speed up the encryption of victim files and allows easy compilation of other target operating systems like Linux. This […]
Five Tips To Modernize Your SOC
Today, users, applications, sensitive data, and critical business processes all reside within multi-cloud and distributed environments. Cloud hosts, SaaS providers, mobile devices, apps and the Internet of Things (IoT) all collect, process, and store data. With the evolution of new technologies, threat actors have also advanced by utilizing sophisticated tools and tactics to evade traditional […]
DDoS Attacks Spike In H1 2022
Over the last decade, Help AG has continuously monitored DDoS attacks targeting the UAE and keenly observed attack patterns and types, considering we protect thousands of customers from being targets of DDoS attacks. Each time we collate, investigate and analyze DDoS attack data for our statistical modelling and future planning, the inference always shows an […]
Top Vulnerabilities in H1 2022
I would like to start of this message with a fact that cyber attacks continue to increase across the world, especially targeting infrastructures which have weak or misconfigured security solutions. The rate of success of these attacks are high – attributing to common weaknesses in cybersecurity hygiene. It is also important to highlight that not […]
Know Your Digital Adversary With Managed DRP
Modern day businesses are rapidly transforming themselves to stay relevant and offer quicker, more innovative, and better customer service to cement their presence and stay ahead of competition. This in turn has fueled the digitalization of businesses and acceleration of remote working, as well as increased online activity, cloud adoption and BYOD usage. The exponential […]
Help AG SSF Round up – Cyber Defense Made Future Ready (March 2022, KSA)
Presenting to you a quick round-up of the highlights from our first ever Security Spotlight Forum in #KSA where we dived into all things #ManagedCyberDefense with our partners Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, Tenable, and Vectra AI, covering cyber threats in the region including RansomOps, lessons learned from #IncidentResponse, data driven cybersecurity, AI based threat detection […]
