12 April 2015
CTO Bruce Schneier to keynote at GISEC as Resilient Systems expands into the region

Dubai - Resilient Systems (formerly known as Co3 Systems), the leading Incident Response Platform (IRP) provider, today announced its partnership with information security value added distributor, Shifra, marking its expansion into the Middle East region. The partnership is the latest in a series of announcements relating to Resilient System's expansion into the EMEA territory, following the establishment of an EMEA office and senior sales and management appointments in the region.

Resilient Systems is helping enterprises to bring order and consistency to their response to IT security incidents with its Incident Response Platform.  By partnering with Shifra, end users in the Middle East region will have access to the leading solution to put them in control of cyber attacks and business crises.

"Response efforts today continue to rely largely on retrofit, manual approaches based on ticketing systems, spreadsheets and legacy applications," said Paul Ayers, General Manager EMEA at Resilient Systems.  "We're seeing significant market demand in EMEA for solutions that will help to improve the coordination and detail in which organisations can respond to security incidents. By partnering with Shifra, we'll be able to bring the most effective response tools to new customers in the Middle East."

"The Middle East is a significant growth area, with businesses expanding rapidly and deploying new infrastructure and systems that are being actively targeted by cybercriminals," said Ahmad Elkhatib, Managing Director of Shifra.  "Our partnership with Resilient Systems will provide our customers with all the best IR tools currently available, ensuring that they are world-leading in their ability to respond to any security incidents."   

Resilient Systems will also be attending GISEC, 26-28 April 2015, at the Dubai World Trade Centre.   At the event Resilient System's CTO and internationally renowned security technologist, Bruce Schneier, will be providing the keynote address. The keynote, taking place at 10.10am on Tuesday 28th April, will look at the highly publicised cyber attacks against Sony, providing insight on how incident response and crisis management plans can help organisations cope with these types of security incidents. Schneier will also be signing copies of his newly released book "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Gems to Capture Your Data and Control Your World" at stand (SR-C25) during the event.

About Resilient Systems 
Resilient Systems (formerly Co3 Systems) is the leading Incident Response Platform provider, empowering organizations to thrive in the face of cyberattacks and business crises. Our collaborative platform arms incident response teams with workflows, intelligence, and deep-data analytics to react faster, coordinate better, and respond smarter. Headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, Resilient Systems' customers are some of the world's most trusted organizations. Visit us at resilientsystems.com.

About Shifra
Shifra is a value added distributor founded in 2007 out of Dubai Internet City with a partner network covering the Middle East region. Shifra provides expertise to enterprise customers around the Middle East in three main areas: Information Security, Identity Protection and Enterprise Mobility. The name Shifra originates from the word "Sifr", the Arabic numeral zero which was later used to describe a cipher that then created a coded message, thus forming the basis of encryption as we know it today. 

With an extensive experience in channel development for multi-national vendors the Shifra team has the perfect aptitude to understand the needs of the market and satisfy them. Our team consists of information technology experts that hold a cumulative experience of over 100 years in the field. Shifra professionals bring international experience from across the world; the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East region. 

Media contacts 
Aidan Murphy/ Jonathan Mathias 
Johnson King  
+44 (0)20 7401 7968 
ResilientSystems@johnsonking.co.uk

Olesya Pavlova
+971 55 5271988
olesya.pavlova@shifra-me.com

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