The Arab International Cybersecurity Conference & Exhibition (AICS) 2023 in Bahrain is the largest convention in the region bringing together government regulators, industry professionals, and solution providers to discuss and develop plans to secure their cyber and IT infrastructure. Held from 5-6 December at Exhibition World Bahrain, this conference has a central theme of Empowering Global Cooperation in Cybersecurity.
The event has the highest level of engagement in the region, with participation from government, industry, and business verticals such as BFSI, oil & gas, energy, utilities, IT & telecom, manufacturing, education, and more. It is hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and held under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander, and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
With a focus on collaboration and innovation, the event aims to address the challenges posed by cyber threats and create a more secure digital environment. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, and workshops, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts in the field, learn about the latest technologies and best practices, and network with peers from around the world.
The AICS maintains its website for thousands of visitors, delegates and exhibitors having the highest level of engagement in the region. The website serves as the central source of information by delivering the up-to-date information about the event directly to attendees and manages online registrations and delegate passes payments.
As a result, any interruption in the operation of the website has a significant impact, with the potential of reputational and financial damage, audience loss, and missed profit. So the AICS sought to enhance its security posture by deploying best-in-class solutions that could effectively protect their infrastructure from DDoS attacks ensuring uninterrupted business availability, and protect customers’ data thus maintaining a business reputation as a trustable partner for its audience.
The company chose the Qrator Labs filtering network as a cornerstone technology for mitigating cyberattacks and driving its digital transformation.
“Most of our delegate passes sales come in through our website as well as informing our audience about the latest conference news. The Qrator Labs platform enables us to block all the malicious traffic and create a trustable seamless experience for our clients,”
M Pradeepraj, Project Manager, Faalyat W.L.L.
Qrator Labs provides always-on protection of the client’s web resource against any type of DDoS attack including the Application layer. With minimal setup time and easy connection, it monitors all website traffic, blocking malicious traffic sources at the perimeter of its network and allowing only legitimate traffic to pass through to the protected resource.
“Qrator Labs network operation is completely invisible, both to us and to our website’s visitors,”
M Pradeepraj
Being the largest cybersecurity convention in the region the Arab International Cybersecurity Summit is very attractive for cybercriminals and hackers attacks so the customer also opted to deploy the Qrator.WAF to prevent various threats such as brute force attacks, theft of confidential data, fraud, or spoofing.
The distributed infrastructure of WAF filtering nodes within the perimeter of the Qrator Labs network allows the customer to protect its application from large-scale hacker attacks and attempts at stealing highly sensitive data with minimal delay and guaranteed service availability.
“Qrator.WAF meets all of our security needs and fully aligns with our technology vision. This allows us to have our critical web resources under control, be far more agile and focus on our business development rather than preventing hacking attempts,”
M Pradeepraj
