Rabih Itani

Country Manager for United Arab Emirates

Rabih itani is the Country Manager for United Arab Emirates at Vectra AI, an AI-driven network detection and response company that protects your cloud, data center, IoT and enterprise. He is a Cybersecurity veteran with 29 years of expertise both in the industry and in the Middle East region. With a strong engineering background, Rabih aims to propose the best security solutions to end-users, partners and vendors in order to respond to their needs and expectations. Rabih is a Cybersecurity passionate, advocate, early adopter and a multiple award winner.

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September 23, 2021

Rabih Itani

Ransomware & RansomOps Contained: How to Best the Digital Pest

Ransomware. It is the new digital bogeyman. In the UAE, an industry survey from June 2021showed the extent to which the country (and by implication, the wider region)has been subjected to ransomware. Some 37% of respondents said they had beenvictims in the previous two years. A staggering 84% elected to pay the ransom, only for most of them - 90% of those who paid - to suffer from second attacksthat often came from the same bad actors.