achieve development in government ser-
vice provision through the electronic and
smart concepts is dependent on maintain-
ing a high level of security related to the
transacted data and information.
He added: “in light of the mobility and
availability of such data, it is imperative to
pay increasing attention to their security
in budgets and strategic plans in order to
ensure service continuity and capability to
precisely meet the public’s requirements”.
Anand Choudha, Managing Director of
Spectrami, information security solutions
providor, said: “The UAE has been set for
several years now to automate its work
systems in both the public and private
sectors. To keep up with such automa-
tion, digital information security solutions,
which protect work systems and prevent
them from being penetrated, are neces-
sary “.
Choudha stated that according to a study
conducted by Frost & Sullivan, a global in-
formation technology consulting firm, this
market is expected to record a compound
annual growth rate of 16 per cent between
2013 and 2019.”
He explained that spending on informa-
tion security solutions extended over the
past few years to include cloud comput-
ing, thereby helping raise the volume of
spending on securing information on
these clouds. Spending on clouds
accounts so far for only 4 per
cent of the sector, but is
expected to account
for no less than
13 per cent
by 2019.
F o r
his part, Mohammed Mobasseri, CEO of
EMT providor of digital information secu-
rity solutions in the UAE, said according
to the compound annual growth rates,
the total value of spending on information
security in the UAE market amounted to
AED818 million in 2012 and is expected
to reach around AED2 billion by 2019.
He added that according to analysis,
the oil and gas sectors, banking
services and communica-
tions will be the most vul-
nerable to malicious
attacks.
Salil Dighe,
CEO of
Meta Byte Technologies said the govern-
ment sector is dealing properly with the is-
sue of digital data and information security
as it procures effective security solutions
and relies on an integrated system of ser-
vices for supporting, operating and main-
taining these solutions, the largest part of
which is missed in the private sector.
Dighe pointed out that the malicious
threats to information security are increas-
ing and becoming more complicated.
Hence, if customers have no mecha-
nism to cover every angle of it,
it would be difficult for them
to confront piracy and
penetrations.
Oil, gas and
banks spend the
most on infor-
mation security:
EMT
UAE’s develop-
ment necessitates
an utmost atten-
tion to information
security:
Rami Al Sada
mGovernment
strive to innovate
solutions to of-
fering anti-piracy
services:
Meshal bin
Hussain
Mohammed Mobasseri
Meshal bin Hussain
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May
2014
