du receives Best Security Information and Event Management Award at GISEC 2014

Dubai, UAE, 17 July 2014: In recognition of its adoption of international best practices and long-standing world-class operations, du’s Technology Security and Risk Management (TSRM) division recently received the Best Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Award from the GISEC IT Security Awards. The award was received by Marwan Abdulla Bindalmook, Senior Vice President - Technology Security & Risk Management in du.

du’s TSRM division established its world-class Security Operations Centre (SOC) with Security Incidence Response Team in 2008. Today, with more than 6 years of maturity and expertise, du is offering Managed Security Services, such as managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), vulnerability management, policy compliance & DDoS attack protection for government institutions and large enterprises in the Middle East.

Bindalmook said: “It is an honour to receive this award. We operate entirely with our customers in mind. Today, we offer and provide a fully scalable, world-class service to customers across the UAE, providing security and reliability to all manner of industry sectors.”

du has a full-fledged 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC). When du decided to deploy a SIEM solution, they had a vision of setting up a SOC to protect both the company’s network and its customers’ IT & network assets. du wanted the SIEM solution to help them in bridging the gap between Business risk and IT risk, improve Situational Awareness and provide better incident response, said Marwan Abdulla Bindalmook, Senior Vice President - Technology Security & Risk Management in du.

du’s dedicated MSS SOC (managed Security Services – Security Operating Centre) analysts have created more than 500 custom correlation rules that analyse more than 20,000 events per second received from around 1,500 different log sources. They also were able to create customized filters to analyse event from non-traditional IT solutions as well as telecom equipment. The SIEM helped du create the true visibility organizations would require by increasing the percentage of their incident true positive value by more than 400%.