Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 49 | Page 74

FINAL WORD

Building resiliency to face future crises

Organisations have had to quickly respond to disruption caused by COVID-19 , including securing their infrastructure . We hear from Anas Jwaied , Vice President and General Manager for Emerging Markets , Micro Focus and Tamer El Refaey , Chief Cyber Security Strategist , Emerging Markets , Micro Focus , who tell us how the company is helping businesses build overall resiliency to face any future crisis .

hHow has Micro Focus helped enterprises provide new and

innovative products to better engage with customers , investors and stakeholders , in light of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic ?
The pandemic introduced new challenges that organisations had to face . For example , cloud adoption was fast-tracked to cope with the required demand of workloads .
Micro Focus helped organisations migrate or extend their infrastructure to the cloud securely by providing innovative format-preserving encryption capabilities .
This allowed our customers to control data with security that ’ s cloud-agnostic and multi-cloud ; reduce risks and cost of a data breach ; and provide secure collaboration and productivity , all while protecting their brands , reputation and addressing complex data privacy regulations .
We also supported our customers with innovative solutions to address the security challenges arising from remote work . Solutions such as adaptive access control integrated with multi-factor authentication and powered by Machine Learning allowed our customers to provide the required remote access with the ease of mind and robust security .
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