The Internet landscape in the Gulf region has grown tremendously in time. The latest report by RIPE NCC highlights the market development, infrastructure, and Internet routing within Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen.

Read more: The current state of Internet landscape in the Gulf region: report

It was clear enough during the virus-ridden year of 2020 that physical sales channels rather than digital ones made it hard for all industries, including the ICT industry to operate at an optimal level. Despite the best efforts, delivering result-oriented customer engagement initiatives suffered, to say the least.

Read more: Roads to change: Modern ICT service providers’ landscape

Known with many names such as ‘edge data centre’, ‘intelligent edge’,’edge node’ or just ‘the edge’, edge computing has come out of the shell and garnering interest from mobile systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) as it fulfills the requirements for low latency and high resilience.

Read more: Opportunities in the edge computing ecosystem

In times when SolarWinds-type cyberattacks are on the rise, there is every reason for organizations to raise red flags on issues related to cybersecurity. In what is dubbed as the biggest cyberspace attack in US history, hackers reportedly gained entry into networks when over 18,000 private and government users downloaded software injected with malicious code. After entering, they were able to monitor the internal emails of some of the important government agencies.

Read more: Cybersecurity predictions to watch out for in 2021

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