Cisco announced plans to establish a datacentre for cloud-delivered security in the Saudi Arabia to help customers protect their users, infrastructure, and investments against threat actors. The announcement is part of Cisco’s continued effort to empower organisations locally and in the region with flexible security services and data protection for devices, remote users, and distributed locations.
The new datacentre will play a critical role in delivering agile, highly resilient, high-capacity secure access closer to users in Saudi Arabia. It will support Cisco’s cloud services including its new Secure Service Edge, SSE solution, Cisco Secure Access.
Findings of the latest Cisco Security Outcomes Report underscore the importance of security resilience. The report revealed that 54% of organisations surveyed in Saudi Arabia experienced a security event that impacted business. The most common incidents were distributed denial of service attacks, 60%, network or system outages, 54% and malicious insider abuse events, 40%. The global report also states that converging networking and security into a mature, cloud-delivered secure access services edge boosted security resilience scores by 27%.
“This announcement reconfirms Cisco’s alignment to provide advanced cloud security protection and services to the Saudi community. It builds on Cisco’s long-standing commitment to our customers and reflects our continued support for digital transformation, by using the power of technologies to create a secured thriving digital economy in Saudi Arabia,” Salman Faqeeh, Managing Director of Cisco in Saudi Arabia commented.
In Saudi Arabia, organisations will experience the benefits of Cisco’s co-located edge datacentre with the scalability of public cloud. The datacentre will be carrier-neutral, and available on any Internet Service Provider, ISP in Saudi Arabia. Cisco intends for the datacentre to have service availability by mid-2024.
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