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Have you ever imagined a world, where you don’t have to fill out online forms, spend hours waiting for a customer support agent, where your grandparents don’t need your help to order their medications online?

The destructive wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the whole planet disturbing almost every aspect of lifestyles, business activities, and economies of the world.

Critical urban infrastructure is the backbone of any economy and a country. The increased number of cybersecurity attacks directed towards the critical urban infrastructures can result in economic progress halts, disruptions in the critical functions of cities and communities.

Cybercriminals and their malicious attack vectors are becoming more sophisticated as an increasing number of organizations throughout the globe continue to suffer devastating cyberattacks and security breaches.

Rapidly evolving technology and the increasing rate of cybercrimes go hand in hand when it comes to the digital transformation the world is witnessing today.

Identity theft complaints increased to 113% as experts report over 4.4 million identity theft and fraud cases just last year.

Unsurprisingly, you may think after reading the word “tabletop” that this exercise is likely to involve physical activity while your staff members sit across a table in a business meeting room.

Ransomware is growing to be one of the most prominent threats to organizational security - making the cyber landscape more complex and hostile.

All the industries today are heavily reliant on the digitization of their business operations. Where the technology increases efficiency, speed, and business profitability, the emerging cybersecurity threats threaten business sustainability and existence.

Every industry has its own vernacular and the cybersecurity industry is no different. Cybersecurity professionals use precise terminologies to express and address a wide range of aspects.

When it comes to cybersecurity education and training, many small businesses and startups assume that cybersecurity training is important for only large enterprises and well-established organizations.

Despite deploying state-of-art security defensive mechanisms, businesses everywhere are suffering from many forms of digital attacks and there are many factors to blame.

Today’s modern era revolves around data and information. Every type and size of business venture has critical information about its clients and customers that needs protection from both internal and external cybersecurity threats.

DMARC creates passports or licenses to use a specific email address for a particular employee's IP, and an attacker can no longer impersonate him/her. It's like trying to illegally cross the border without a passport and crawling in hope to stay unnoticed: a lot of effort but always in vain.

Many companies have switched gears to a hybrid office following the events of 2020. At the moment, we observe office space transformation affecting common interior items, from water coolers to good old meeting rooms. Now, we would like to focus on six trends that are going to change our meeting rooms in the nearest future.

Only some companies can successfully manage manufacturing remotely by collecting data from data sensors and uploading job files to machines, despite the fact that this year the number of enterprises which adopted IoT technologies grew up by one third, compared to 2019. What is holding the progress back?

Gartner predicts that by 2022, 70% of companies will experiment with immersive training, and 25% will deploy it in production. Are you one of those 25% quick thinkers?

The implementation of Intelligent Automation helps to optimize the costs of business processes within the organization and free up time resources that you can spend on strategic planning. Here we see savings in practical application and the resulting investments in competent planning and a deeper study of business tasks.

We are to come through cybersecurity paradigm transformation caused by notorious 2020 events. Changing work mode and communication format within corporate environment induced new trends in hacker attacks. What lessons shall we take with us into 2021?

Automation works best when paired with humans, not against them.

During the pandemic, a great number of employees rethought their work approach, while companies modified business processes to improve efficiency. In fact, many companies happened to upgrade their competencies and adapt to the new working environment. Let’s talk about innovations that subtly combine convenience and cost-effectiveness.

To stop worry about cybersecurity threats, consider implementing the Zero Trust concept at your organization. This will make CEOs more optimistic and enable them rest assured that employees will not be framed by fraudsters and hackers will hardly crack the corporate security system.

Hackers targeted about 130 Twitter accounts. By the time the service swung into action to combat the cyberattack, hackers managed to get access to 45 of 130 accounts and reset passwords, change related email addresses, log in to the accounts, and send tweets.

How we trained Bahraini students in VR/AR development and turn-key project completion in just five months, with some of them already working in this field.

The first wave of COVID-19 landed a punch on business, period. Adapting to the unprecedented crisis, we have learned our lessons in a hardcore way to share them with you today. Our task is to reflect on what we've been through during the first wave and hold an after-action review to face the next wave fully prepared. Yaqoob AlAwadhi, CEO, NGN International, reveals his IT insights gained during this pandemic.

On March 17, Government Executive Committee of Bahrain introduced additional precautionary measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), encouraging remote working when possible, limiting public gatherings to 20 people or fewer, and committing to stay at home as much as possible, going out for necessity only.

The users of a free version of CamScanner app, an Android Phone PDF creator with over 100 million downloads on ogle Play Store, have been reporting suspicious behaviour of the app and leaving negative reviews within the last few months.

A Bahraini businessman has highlighted the potential of modern technology, especially Virtual Reality (VR), to revolutionize occupational health and safety training in the Kingdom.

NGN International, a full-fledged systems integrator and IT consultant, was established in 2015 as part of NGN Group (a global system integrator operating in Turkey and Middle East since 2005).