Rackspace to help Abu Dhabi Global Market leverage cloud and develop business data platform

efficiencies and agility in IT operations as well as providing a modern, secure technology footprint for deployment of enhanced business services.

Abu Dhabi Global Market, an international financial centre located in UAE’s capital emirate announced a partnership with Rackspace Technology, to collaborate on a number of strategic technology initiatives.

As a long standing global leading service provider in multicloud computing, technology advisory and managed services, Rackspace Technology will support ADGM in its journey to leverage cloud computing and develop a comprehensive business data platform. Cloud migration will enable ADGM to drive cost

The ADGM unified data platform initiative will develop a central repository for all business data, enabling enhanced business insight and improved decision making, as well as enabling the foundation for advanced analytics and AI.

Dragos, global vendor in cybersecurity for industrial control systems, operational technology environments, participated in the Global Cybersecurity Forum, held in Riyadh recently. The two-day event attracted cybersecurity experts and leaders from all over the world.

Ben Miller, who represented Dragos as its Vice President of Services, spoke on the concluding day of the forum, about the threat of supply chain and third-party attacks. In his session, titled, “Pervasive and Insecure,” he discussed supply chain risk in critical infrastructure, examining the complex reality of third-party and supply chain attacks and sharing perspectives on the unseen vulnerabilities and how to address them.

Miller highlighted the complex nature of supply chain attacks, which potentially contain widespread vulnerabilities in the OT and industrial control systems. He outlined Dragos’ specific focus on the Saudi Arabia’s supply chain risk in critical infrastructure including refineries and water treatment plants, as “Energy and water are specific focuses of ours in the region as they are critical not just to the economy but also to every person who lives here,” he said.

A global expert in industrial cybersecurity himself, Miller joined other renowned thought leaders in the field, including: Dr. Albert Antwi-Boasiako, Directory-General of the Cyber Security Authority, Ghana; Mary O’Brien, General Manager, IBM Security; Lothar Renner from Cisco Security; and Dr. Victoria Coates, Former Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy.

Dragos is looking forward to working in tandem with the government of Saudi Arabia to help critical infrastructure in the region strengthen security. Dragos has its regional headquarters at the Saudi Information Technology Company, SITE in Riyadh.