Zscaler's Kamel Tamimi On Securing Digital Growth
Tamimi stressed the need for key stakeholders to have confidence in cybersecurity tools, especially as organizations digitize their operations.
"It's an old saying that cybersecurity should be to enable businesses, not to stop it,” Kamel Tamimi, senior consultant at California-based cybersecurity company Zscaler Middle East and Africa, told Inc. Arabia in an interview at GITEX GLOBAL 2024.
"The Middle East, especially the Gulf countries - especially the UAE and Saudi - are the biggest adopters of digital transformation, cloud transformation," he added, noting that it has become paramount for organizations to have confidence in their cybersecurity tools as they digitize.
As the Middle East embraces cloud and AI technologies, Tamimi highlighted how cybersecurity architectures like Zero Trust can help address the challenges around securing data and connectivity. "Zero Trust matters because now connectivity matters. The data is no longer in the castle as we used to call it, the data centers, conventional data centers. It's everywhere. It's in the cloud. It's in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application."
He added, "So, securing the connectivity needs a new way and Zero Trust as a framework for connectivity, for risk adaptive connectivity, is very important."
For leaders exploring cybersecurity solutions, Tamimi advises against focusing solely on buzzwords like blockchain, AI, or Zero Trust without understanding their practical applications: "Go to your trusted partners, trusted vendors, and try to understand this concept properly."
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