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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.