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SERVICES FOR QATAR’S
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tos, a global leader in
Digital Transformation
and cybersecurity, and
Ooredoo, the region’s leading
enabler of digital business innovation,
have announced a partnership to launch
enhanced industry-leading cybersecurity
solutions and support secure Digital
Transformation for Qatar’s organisations.
From its Qatar Data Centre, Ooredoo
is leveraging Atos’ experience to enhance
the capabilities of its security operations
centre, the central unit that can investigate
security incidents, perform incident
response and forensics and maintain
business uptime 24x7.
Worldwide, Atos, which has a team of
5,000 security specialists, runs 14 security
operations centres.
Ooredoo’s business customers
can also benefit from Atos’ support for
new levels of managed security services.
Solutions include domain name system
(DNS) security, database security, email
security, endpoint detection and response
(EDR), firewall management, threat
intelligence services, web application firewall
(WAF-as-a-Service) and web security.
Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Chief
Operating Officer at Ooredoo Qatar, said:
“Our partnership with Atos on enhancing
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our cybersecurity solutions aims to protect
the information security of our business
customers and to protect critical national
infrastructure. Qatar’s organisations of all
sizes and industry verticals can enhance their
defences against cyberthreats, reduce their
risk and comply with security regulations.”
Ooredoo’s business customers can
also benefit from Ooredoo’s industry-
leading security operations centres service
level agreements, Disaster Recovery and
customer-centric security dashboards
for real-time threat insights. Thanks to
Ooredoo’s opex-based subscription model,
business customers can also find fully
transparent and regular billing options.
This partnership builds on the recent
announcement between Ooredoo and Atos
to support Qatar’s organisations in their
Digital Transformation. Ooredoo’s business
customers can also benefit from the global
best practices being exchanged as part
of Atos being a co-founder of the Charter
of Trust, the world’s first joint charter for
greater cybersecurity.
Francis Meston, Atos Group EVP and CEO
Middle-East, Africa and Turkey, said: “With
Qatar’s cyberthreat landscape evolving
in scale and complexity, cybersecurity is
now one of the top business risks. Atos
is exchanging global best practices with
Ooredoo to ensure that Qatar’s organisations
can find a seamless security strategy with
Big Data, high-performance computing and
automated security responses for end-to-
end protection.”
Atos counts more than 110,000 employees
in 73 countries worldwide and has reached
the third position worldwide in Managed
Security Services for the cyberspace
according to Gartner. Atos has been the
worldwide IT partner of the International
Olympic Committee since 2001 and ensures
the IT security of the Olympic Games.
Business customers can leverage the
Ooredoo Advantage, making Ooredoo ‘Best
for Business’, thanks to its breadth and depth
of talent, best fixed and mobile networks,
broadest portfolio of ICT services and
solutions and trusted partner for 60 years.
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