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Gartner Forecasts Spending on Information Security in MENA to Grow 14% in 2025

Analysts Explore Security and Risk Trends During Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, April 7-8 in Dubai

Sam Olyaei - Gartner

Dubai, UAE, April 8, 2025 — Information security spending by Middle East and North Africa (MENA) enterprises is projected to total $3.3 billion in 2025, an increase of 14% from 2024, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Security software will remain the largest spending category in MENA, forecast to reach nearly $1.5 billion in 2025. 

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Riverbed Unveils Next-Generation AIOps, Adding Predictive, Agentic and Generative AI to the Riverbed Platform  

Company Also Introduces Next Three Data Observability Modules for Unified Agent: Unified Communications, Network Packet Capture and Aternity for Intel® Thunderbolt™ and Wi-Fi

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – April 8, 2025 – Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced a major expansion of the Riverbed Platform—delivering a bold set of AI-powered observability solutions that bring together Riverbed Generative, Predictive and Agentic AI, along with innovative data observability modules for unified communications applications, network packets and Intel® Thunderbolt™ and Wi-Fi connected devices.

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JAGGAER announces two new leadership team appointments

April 08, 2025: JAGGAER, a global leader in Source-to-Pay and Supplier Collaboration, has announced the appointment of Jon Lawrence as Chief Product Officer and Pascal d’Arc as Chief Strategy Officer.

With his vision and transformative approach, Lawrence will oversee the entire product portfolio. Before joining JAGGAER, Lawrence was tasked with leading innovation and the overall product strategy at CBORD, a provider of integrated technology solutions powering access, foodservice, nutrition, commerce, and card systems. As a member of their executive team, he contributed to developing a strong product based on accurate and insightful market fit, in order to deliver high value returns to clients and customers. Prior to CBORD, Lawrence, who holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, covered senior product leadership roles in spend monitoring, supply chain management, and retail operations.

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Generative AI Providers Rewriting the Rules of Automated Traffic – F5 Report

  • New F5 Labs report finds that over half of page requests for web content are now automated as use of LLM scrapers intensifies.
  • More than a third of login attempts in the technology industry are account takeover attacks.
  • Healthcare and hospitality are the most targeted industries on the web; entertainment is the most targeted on mobile.
David Warburton - F5

Dubai, UAE. April 7, 2025 –The rise of generative AI means that bots now access some types of web content more than humans, according to new research from F5.

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Open-Source AI in the Middle East: Three Key Opportunities – and the Risks Companies Can’t Ignore

Dubai, UAE – April 7, 2025 – From cost reduction to increased efficiency and technological advancement, the opportunities opened by the current market turmoil are many. However, the complexities associated with data management remain to be balanced

Artificial intelligence that is open source, i.e., freely available for use, study, modification and sharing, has been the focus of interest of insiders and ordinary citizens for quite some time now. In recent weeks, attention on the topic has increased exponentially, with concerns over the latest DeepSeek updates  and a surge of interest in Middle Eastern initiatives from entities such as G42 in the UAE and STC in Saudi Arabia, as the region seeks to keep pace with established  Chinese and U.S. models. Homegrown efforts like Falcon, Fanar, and Jais are placing the region firmly on the global AI development map. At the regional level, institutions like the Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have launched specialized AI programs and large language models, while other players across the GCC are deploying advanced solutions on locally operated architectures.

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