Mobily voted ‘Best managed information security provider’

17/02/2016 05:40 AST

ETIHAD Etisalat (Mobily) has been awarded the Best Managed Information Security Service Provider for the year 2016 on the sidelines of the GIL Conference for growth, innovation and leadership in the Middle East which took place in Al-Khobar City during the last week.

The conference classifies information security services as one of the most important challenges facing the Middle East business sector, particularly KSA. Conference stressed upon an urgent need for business continuity in many sectors requiring high-level information security Services in order to ensure optimal information security management for the company.

Eng. Ismail AlGhamdi Chief Business Officer, Mobily at the occasion said, “We are honored to receive this award from GIL Middle East Conference, confirming Mobily’s leadership in the field of information security services. We are glad to be acknowledged and have been consistently working on providing state of the art services and infrastructure; recently, our information security center called Almalqa 2 Data Center became one of the first few centers to get a Tier-IV ranking from Uptime Institute which specializes in evaluating data centers around the world.”

GIL conference also touched upon important topics and innovations related to multiple sections in telecommunications and information technology industries such as the “Internet of Things”, communications and information technology services that support the health sector and current trends of the sector.

It is worth mentioning that Mobily has introduced information security services in the Kingdom, based upon the highest international standards. The company has developed valuable international partnerships to facilitate provision of optimal services, this includes partnerships with organizations such as, Zscaler, Arbor and IBM, among others.

Saudi Gazette