BizBahrain May-June 2017

CYBER
SECURITY
OPERATING BEYOND THE
PERIMETER
Cyber security has definitely been
centre stage in the last year.
From election poll drama to
boardroom takeovers, last year underlined
the magnitude of top-class cyber security
for businesses and organizations across
the board. As the Internet of Things
dominates conversation and technology
continues to take giant strides, our
world has become more connected and
automated than it ever was before. In the
labyrinth, cyber security stands to become
even more paramount in protecting
confidential information and in ensuring
businesses remain undisrupted. To keep
up with this spike in demand, companies
are already making massive investments
to enhance their cyber security systems -
and the impact of these investments can
be seen in the industry’s growth.
It was while recognizing gaps in
how cyber threats and incidents are
managed before it became such a global
conversation, that Mirza Asrar Baig
founded CTM360 in 2014. The company
has rapidly become a global front-runner
in Cyber Threat Management since then.
“This core service is strengthened
by cyber footprint management and
real-time situational awareness.
Innovation and Collaboration are our
key strategies that have enabled Team
CTM360 to effectively detect and manage
cyber attacks targeting our member
community,” says Mirza Asrar Baig in an
interview with bizbahrain.
Tell us about what your vision was for
CTM360 when you first established the
company in Bahrain.
CTM360's mission is to enhance
members’ cyber resilience, with
the strategy of identifying and
managing attacks at an early stage.
Our comprehensive Cyber Threat
Management services cover all aspects
of Prediction, Prevention, Detection,
Response and Knowledge-sharing.
We provide ‘Dependable Security as a
Service’ via a collaborative cloud-based
platform, which enables members to
tackle evolving cyber threats on a realtime
basis.
The company has successfully filled a
gap in the GCC by keeping a steady finger
on the pulse of cyber threats seen in the
region. We have developed technologies
in-house according to real and present
needs with a fully equipped and dedicated
team that identifies cyber threats relevant
to our subscribed members.
Is the 'Visionary CEO of the Year' Catalyst
Award that you won earlier this year,
recognition of your work, and your
foresight in entering this field 30 years
ago when cyber threats were barely
known?
Yes, the award was a huge honour and
recognition. I was not really understood
or recognised in that manner in the past.
The whole region grew in these years
and maturity has come in, but even in
the global sense there is a lack of a plan
on how we should be addressing the
cyber security world even today. Even the
definition of cyber security is not well
defined. There is a lot of contradiction and
people debate on the difference between
cyber security and information security.
That is where we come in because we
have a refined definition of cyber security.
We see it in that sense as a vision of the
future where there will be completely
separate teams that handle cyber security,
information security and IT security as
parts of one whole.
We don't have that many
organisations in the region developing
technologies on this aspect of cyber
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