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Oman Data Park and Cisco
partner for managed
security services
Maitham Al-Lawati, General Manager,
Risk & Compliance at ODP and Ali Al-Lawati,
General Manager Cisco Oman
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 Oman, offering managed
cloud services, public cloud, co-location and
managed security services to both large and
small organisations in Oman.
In February 2018, ODP launched its third
data centre in Oman at Duqm. ODP Duqm
Data Centre complements the other two
active data centres: Knowledge Oasis Muscat
and Wattayah. At the Duqm Data Centre
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Oman Data Park 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 to government and
commercial entities, with a strong focus on
the banking and financial industry.”
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, 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.
“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.
“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.”
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