Oman Data Park partners with
Cisco for managed security services
man Data Park (ODP) and
Cisco have announced that
ODP has deployed Cisco
Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
as part of its ODP Managed Security
Services for endpoint protection.
Oman Data Park is the first managed
service provider in the country, offering
managed cloud services, public
cloud, co-location and managed
security services to both large and
small organisations.
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In February 2018, ODP launched its
third data centre at Duqm. ODP Duqm
Data Centre complements the other two
active data centres – Knowledge Oasis
Muscat and Wattayah. The Duqm Data
Centre has partnered with Cisco to offer
managed security services.
Maqbool Al Wahaibi, CEO, Oman Data
Park, said: “Since the start of ODP,
partnering with Cisco has been a
strategic decision in line with our vision
to provide stable, reliable and highly
available data centre services. Cisco
continues to be our key technology
provider for Oman Data Park as we
expand and roll out our third data centre.
“Based on the early success of
Knowledge Oasis Muscat and Wattayah
data centres, we were confident that
Cisco would give us the same benefits
with our third data centre.
“Using Cisco Data Centre Networking,
Compute, Collaboration, Security and
many other solutions, we are able to
control our total cost of ownership,
avoid complexity while building
resiliency and significantly differentiate
our services. From our Duqm data
centre, we intend to offer cloud services
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L–R: Maitham Al-Lawati, General Manager,
Risk and Compliance at ODP and Ali Al-
Lawati, General Manager Cisco Oman
We will be able to
offer our customers
a next-generation
endpoint security
solution that prevents,
detects and responds
to advanced threats.
Cloud Managed Infrastructure and
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
platforms, with a scalable network
performance of 40Gbps.
Maitham Al-Lawati, General Manager,
Risk and Compliance at ODP, added:
“With Cisco AMP, we will be able to offer
our customers a next-generation endpoint
security solution that prevents, detects
and responds to advanced threats.
to government and commercial entities,
with a strong focus on the banking and
financial industry.” “Cisco AMP takes a cloud-based
approach to threat intelligence and file
analysis and is a key differentiator for
our ODP Managed Security Service.
Cisco AMP continuously monitors,
analyses and records all activity to
uncover malicious behaviour.
Ali Al-Lawati, General Manager Cisco
Oman, said Cisco was looking forward
to working with Oman Data Park and
providing multiple new solutions, including
Application and Business Performance, “That way, it helps to drastically reduce
investigation and remediation time and
it automatically shares that intelligence
with all devices the threat has touched
across the network.” u
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