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First vice president for sales, marketing and business development in Dark Matter .. Rabee’ Dabbousi:

UAE is beating heart

of technology in the region

Dark Matter recognizes that data protection is themain factor for the success of countries and institutions, therefore the

economies as a whole. Hence, it has devoted its efforts to support this sector particularly after the spread of the work concept

‘Bring your own device’ which came up withmore of unhappy endings that have expanded the access to sensitive data in all

the authorities.

The company helps the countries and the organizations that look for amagical solution for the security of its communications,

whether it seeks to build anti hacking telecommunication systemor adherence with the requirements of government decoding

and compliance, or even guaranteeing that the unsatisfied employees not taking any sensitive data or mobile devices.

In the next dialogue inwhich Rabee’ Dabbousi, first vice president for sales, marketing and business development in Dark

Matter speaks about themost important products provided by his company confirming that Dark Matter seeks to change the

view of the electronic security on the global level, referring that the company has chosen UAE as its headquarter, where the

company has collected in its headquarter the elite skills in the heart of themiddle east, thematter that provided the company

with an exceptional deep insight in the operational, cultural and security issues that affect its clients in the region.

Several companies work in the

domain of electronic security, do you

have partnerships with any of them?

We have very strong partnerships withmany

of the biggest companies including Sisco,

Microsoft, Fiber Wi, Semantic, Gidens, Want

App, Fi Armour.

We realise the great importance of

cooperation and information exchange with

the other companies considering them a

decisive element in accessing to a highly

effective electronic security. In addition that

the nature of our orientation in Dark Matter

and our comprehensive approach is to

ensure digital networks from A to Z which

in its turn make such partnerships as the

foundation stone to accomplish this target.

Individuals face an understanding

problemwhen the deal with smart

cities and Internet of things (IoT), what

is the role played by Dark Matter to help

them in overcoming suchmatter since

it is working in this sector?

This is an important question especially that

raising the awareness towards the risks of

internet constitutes a core element in filling

the security gaps. This interrelated nature

between the two environments of Internet

of Things (IoT) and smart cities requires the

assurance of adding security immunity to

the interrelated smart devices.

This issue requires that all parties whether

countries or institutions or individuals realise

that interrelated nature of the modern digital

networks means these increasing links and

the various requirements must be moved

with complete responsibility to guarantee

the update of the electronic operations, the

individuals and the techniques in addition to

itsworkwithcoordinationand consolidation

to provide a sustainable effective defence

against the electronic accidents.

How you see the development of

information technology and

telecommunications in United Arab

Emirates?

UAE is considered an international centre

for technology fromwhich several initiatives

anddevelopmentsemergeinothercountries.

It has the highest rank of the diffusion of

mobiledevicesintheregioninadditiontothe

wide use of smartmobiles announced earlier

this year that it will become without paper

work by transforming all its transactions

into distributed databases by 2020. We have

already seen some institutions such as

National Dubai Emirates Bank (NBED) who

is applying experimental projects on the

distributed databases. Such developments

provide a real push to develop technology in

the country within different sectors.

Itisalsoexpectedthat25%ofDubaibuildingswill

beconstructedonthebasisofthreedimensions

printing technology by 2030. Dark Matter has

been chosen earlier this year to participate in

Future Dubai Accelerators Program for the elite

companies, which is targeted to help different

government authorities in overcoming the real

challenges by using technology.

All these examples confirms that the

techniques of the information technology

and telecommunications sector has become

an engine for the development plans of

United Arab Emirates and most of the other

under development countries, therefore we

need to maintain the security of the digital

networks so that the countries are able to

take the utmost advantage of its potential

capabilities.

What the future plans of Dark

Matter?

Our vision is ‘protecting the future by

securing its technologies’. In order to be able

to achieve this vision, we have to continue

the development of the products, services

and solutions to maintain the immunity of

thedifferent entitiesagainst thedevelopment

of the electronic threats

Does Dark Matter have a search and

development team?

Of course, we have searches and

developments teams who focus on the

future since the defeat of the developed

electronic threats requires the continuation

of search, development and innovation as a

major element of any powerful solution for

the electronic security.

We, at Dark Matter, have specialized search

and development teams that take into

account the future developments regarding

the electronic security in order to maintain

our clients systems updated with the latest

techniques that proceed the predicted

attacks.