Etisalat and Telefónica create a SOC in the United Arab Emirates focused on cybersecurity

As part of your smart strategy, Etisalat has signed an alliance with Telefónica to create a Security Operations Center that will offer advanced cybersecurity services to all types of companies. It is an agreement that reinforces the one already signed by both companies in 2011.

Etisalat And Telephone have signed an agreement in the field of information security that will allow both companies to collaborate in the development and implementation of a Security Operations Center (Soc) in the United Arab Emirates (EAU) equipped with the most advanced technology. The center will offer a wide range of cybersecurity services to organizations of all types and is part of Etisalat's smart strategy to secure the nation's public and private IT infrastructure..

As part of this agreement, Etisalat will boost its portfolio of managed services through some of the most advanced technology platforms, provided by Telefónica. Some of these services that the operator will provide, as threat detection, vulnerability management, industrial and anti-fraud safety, help address the changing threats to the UAE and fill the security knowledge gaps that currently exist in the country.

This alliance is another step in the existing collaboration between Etisalat and Telefónica, after the signing of the strategic agreement signed in 2011.

"Etisalat maintains a strong commitment to meeting the growing security needs of organisations in the UAE and aims to help them transform into a Smart environment.. This alliance with Telefónica will allow us to offer our customers safer and smarter managed security services, and state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions. The security operations center that will be born from this collaboration will offer security, advanced tracking and access 24×7 to threat intelligence correlation services", Abdullah Hashim has pointed out, Senior Vice President of Digital Services at Etisalat.

For its part, Oliver Martinez, Director of Business Security of the Telefónica Group, Explained that this collaboration will connect the SOCs of Dubai and Madrid "will improve the effectiveness of security services and the identification of new threats and vulnerabilities that affect our customers. The agreement highlights the role that telecommunications companies play in the complete management of the security and integrity of customer data and operations.. The agreement demonstrates Telefónica's advanced capabilities and technologies in the field of digital security intelligence and confirms our commitment to becoming a digital telecommunications company.".

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