26 April 2004
DOHA: Gulf Business Machines (GBM) Qatar, sole distributor for IBM products and services in the Gulf countries excluding Saudi Arabia, jointly hosted an IT security seminar with IBM and Cisco Systems in Doha on Thursday.
Thierry Louesse, General Manager, GBM Qatar, opened the event by warmly welcoming the guests. Experts from GBM, IBM and Cisco Systems presented various IT Security related topics.
The event highlighted the IT security dilemma to the attending audience which comprised IT and Network Security Managers from leading government and private institutions. Experts discussed how jointly developed processes and solutions have been created to enable companies to deploy a comprehensive security infrastructure, which at the same time simplifies support and reduces costs.
“In today’s e-business economy, network and IT security is the largest concern of IT managers. Many existing solutions typically address only parts of the security landscape and this creates a huge workload as well as costs in evaluating, installing, integrating, supporting and managing all security products,” said Louesse.
“GBM has been helping clients across the region develop their own security strategies, implement defences and provide protection against intrusion at every level by designing customised security architecture which follow IBM’s Method for Architecting Security Solutions (MASS) and Cisco’s SAFE methodology,” said James Buckett, Tivoli Technical Sales Manager, IBM Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, IBM. He further said that the implementation of such solutions by GBM includes consultancy, design and implementation services based on ISO 17799,”
GBM’s sophisticated multi-layer security implementations in mission-critical areas, include its work for the government, telecommunications, aviation, banking and petroleum sectors, among others.
DOHA: Gulf Business Machines (GBM) Qatar, sole distributor for IBM products and services in the Gulf countries excluding Saudi Arabia, jointly hosted an IT security seminar with IBM and Cisco Systems in Doha on Thursday.
Thierry Louesse, General Manager, GBM Qatar, opened the event by warmly welcoming the guests. Experts from GBM, IBM and Cisco Systems presented various IT Security related topics.
The event highlighted the IT security dilemma to the attending audience which comprised IT and Network Security Managers from leading government and private institutions. Experts discussed how jointly developed processes and solutions have been created to enable companies to deploy a comprehensive security infrastructure, which at the same time simplifies support and reduces costs.
“In today’s e-business economy, network and IT security is the largest concern of IT managers. Many existing solutions typically address only parts of the security landscape and this creates a huge workload as well as costs in evaluating, installing, integrating, supporting and managing all security products,” said Louesse.
“GBM has been helping clients across the region develop their own security strategies, implement defences and provide protection against intrusion at every level by designing customised security architecture which follow IBM’s Method for Architecting Security Solutions (MASS) and Cisco’s SAFE methodology,” said James Buckett, Tivoli Technical Sales Manager, IBM Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, IBM. He further said that the implementation of such solutions by GBM includes consultancy, design and implementation services based on ISO 17799,”
GBM’s sophisticated multi-layer security implementations in mission-critical areas, include its work for the government, telecommunications, aviation, banking and petroleum sectors, among others.
© The Peninsula 2004
