Essa Al-Moosa

KUWAIT: Ooredoo Business, the trusted technology partner for all business solutions, in collaboration with Cisco held an interactive webinar to shed light on the latest local and international trends, mechanisms and technological practices related to cyber security and network security solutions and how to utilize them to overcome any cyber threats that may expose companies' sensitive data to danger by unauthorized parties. The webinar was held online in order to widen the reach of audience, targeting technology enthusiasts.

The webinar came as part of Ooredoo's continuing efforts to better help the participated parties to bring the latest technologies and best practices and as a result better face the challenges of the cybersecurity attacks, in addition to sharpening the technological, and technical skills of ICT employees, which lead to the expansion of their awareness, knowledge and expertise, which contribute to achieving the company's goals and building the desired future. During the webinar, participants were able to ask questions and share real life challenges and learn how to overcome them.

Further, the webinar introduced the participants to the different types of common cyber-attacks that occur in the digital world today, and explained that unlike individual users, companies require highly advanced systems, solutions and technologies for protection and continuous monitoring to maintain high levels of security.

Commenting on the webinar, Essa Al-Moosa, Executive Director of Business & Consumer Sales at Ooredoo Kuwait, said: "Disasters and malicious threats are always a possibility and can completely wipe out important data, or compromise sensitive data, which will ultimately hurt any business. Along with the data, companies will risk losing time, productivity, clients, and customers. Hence, all of these losses will add up over time to put a huge dent on any business profits. When taking a decision to protect enterprises network data, companies need a reliable and secure network with efficient backup and recovery,"

"This will help enterprises to avoid major data losses and sensitive data breaches that can ruin any business; and this is what Ooredoo Business is offering today to enterprises in association with Cisco being one of the world's leading companies in cybersecurity solutions," Al-Moosa added.

The association between Ooredoo and Cisco is not limited to providing cybersecurity solutions and products only, but also includes providing networking, Internet of Things (IoT), data center, cloud and computing, and security solutions and services to meet the needs of companies and the changing Kuwaiti market.

It is worth mentioning that Ooredoo has achieved the Cisco Gold Partner certification which indicates that Ooredoo Kuwait meets the rigorous global standards set out by Cisco. The official evaluation criteria cover networking competency, service, support, and customer satisfaction. In every technical activity area under scrutiny, Ooredoo Kuwait's provision was found to meet the high standards required.