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news SearchInform 2019 event a success in South Africa Sergey Ozhegov, CEO of SearchInform SearchInform Risk Monitor is an all- in-one system that helps to secure internal control, which enables corporate fraud investigation and abnormal behaviour detection. The solution possesses advanced analytical instruments and convenient reports. Sergey Ozhegov, CEO of SearchInform, said: “I would like to mention the interest of the audience. The event attendees’ questions were mostly related to the practice of risk prevention. earchInform together with its South African partners CONDYN and Secnovate held its Insider Risk and Fraud Executive Briefing 2019 in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town. The speakers introduced the S original concept based on a holistic approach to human-related threats mitigation, including techniques for risk and compliance management, fraud prevention, employee monitoring, high-risk behaviour reporting as well as instruments to control activities within and outside a corporate network. “The experts asked about the application of certain security policies in particular situations. “The point is that people came not just to listen about data security and internal risks but to find a real solution for their specific problems. That is what we provide and that’s why we organised the seminars.” SANS INSTITUTE DELIVERS FIRST CYBERSECURITY TRAINING EVENT IN OMAN ANS Institute, a global leader in cybersecurity training, has held SANS Muscat 2019, the company’s first ever cybersecurity training event to be held in Oman, at the InterContinental Hotel, Muscat. The highly subscribed event developed deep, hands-on skills among cybersecurity professionals in the country through its immersion-style training. S Expert SANS instructors helped participants develop high-level skills in incident handling, computer crime investigation, hacker tools workshops, security operations centres, network security architecture, automation and continuous security monitoring. Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa at SANS Institute, said: “It is our pleasure to roll out our first ever SANS cybersecurity training event in Muscat. Oman has some of the best cybersecurity awareness measures across the government and public sector institutions in the Arab world. “SANS Institute is proud to host this event in Muscat and play its part in raising awareness and competency levels in www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 13 cybersecurity techniques and practices among the cybersecurity professionals in government organisations, supporting institutions, and public and private sector organisations. In- depth, deep dive and hands-on training programmes such as SANS Muscat 2019, will help raise the competency levels of in-country cybersecurity professionals to global levels. They will be even better prepared to detect, thwart and remediate sophisticated and nation state type of threat actors.” 9