MEEZA, Darktrace partner to help customers meet cybersecurity challenges – The Peninsula

MEEZA, Darktrace partner to help customers meet cybersecurity challenges – The Peninsula

Doha: MEEZA, Qatar’s prominent managed IT services and solutions provider, has partnered with Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence (AI), to expand its cybersecurity portfolio in the domains of classic IT networks along with newly added Operational technology (OT) capabilities to secure information and operations simultaneously.

Through the partnership, Darktrace will deliver complete Artificial Intelligence -powered solutions to complement the mature security platform capabilities already in place at MEEZA since the launch of Qatar’s first commercial Security Operations Center (SOC) back in 2014. The combined firepower will help customers in Qatar to meet the rising challenges of security compliance and stay ahead of complex threats from ransomware, cloud to SaaS and from IT infrastructure to OT environments at industrial facilities. OT environments include building management and SCADA systems, industrial and safety controllers for instance, where the nature of data exchanges and traffic patterns is drastically different than office IT environments and hence require a new set of technologies automating the detection and response mechanisms.

The combined offering will be delivered in a simple end-to-end service format to the end users without the complexity of the typical technology stack installations as the team at MEEZA will deliver a 24x7 managed security