McAfee security solutions provider opened its first Cyber Defence Centre (CDC) in the world. The CDC is located in Dubai and will offer support to response incidents, assessments and education of security to customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The launch of CDC, McAfee first worldwide, addressing a growing demand in EMEA for sophisticated security services with expertise upscale and experience. The center will not only provide response services quality emergency incidents and Forensics (supported by the new McAfee state-of-the-art forensic laboratory based in Dubai) but also provide unique strategic services the region, including: the contextual threat Intelligence Open Source Intelligence Investigations, defense assessments DDoS , Forensics and digital targeted Malware threat Analysis .
local, field presence provided by the CDC would make it easier for customers to take advantage of the McAfee expertise and also to reduce the response time in case of any kind of crisis.
malware and targeted attacks to the EMEA
"the increasing frequency of breakdowns due to hacktivists, criminal and terrorist activities has brought the safety issue front of mind, "said Gert-Jan Schenk, president, McAfee EMEA ." organizations must be able to deal with these attacks in order to minimize their impact. It is here the CDC can play a valuable role in crisis by providing experts, an experienced support by leveraging the McAfee ecosystem :. Support, and Professional Services Labs "
McAfee indicates that during the past year, a significant increase in malware and targeted attacks on organizations in the EMEA region was detected. For example Ukraine and Belarus both experienced increase in spam over 0 percent in 2013 Q2 . in the Middle East, the CDC oversees a family of financial-data theft malware, this which is very active in countries such as KSA, UAE and Qatar.
many of the violations that have been studied by McAfee over the past month started with attackers performing an injection SQL in Web sites and customer databases to enter further into the network. McAfee also monitors more activity regarding hacking groups that target industries, governments and other pirates -groups for various reasons :. financial gain, or hacktivism steal intellectual property
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