MCS & LogRhythm Partnership
March 17,2021 | Press-release
MCS & LogRhythm Partner to Deliver Cybersecurity Solutions
Across the Middle East and Africa
The partnership enables more public
and private sector organizations in these regions to detect, assess and
mitigate cybersecurity threats in real-time and proactively protect users.
Cairo,
Egypt. — March 15, 2021 — LogRhythm, the company powering today’s security operations
centers (SOCs), and Mideast Communication Systems (MCS), the leading
value-added distributor in the Middle East and Africa, have partnered to
deliver next-generation security information and event management (NextGen
SIEM) solutions to organizations across the Middle East and East Africa. The
partnership enables public and private organizations to deploy LogRhythm’s
NextGen SIEM and benefit from automation, advanced intelligence engine, machine learning and range of cybersecurity technologies and
techniques.
LogRhythm operates across six continents and
enables organizations to successfully reduce risk by rapidly detecting,
responding to and neutralizing cyberthreats. The LogRhythm platform combines
user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), network traffic and behavior
analytics (NTBA) and security automation, orchestration and response (SOAR) in
a single end-to-end solution. It serves 4,000 customers globally and has been
given the Customer Choice title from the Gartner Peer Insights Customers Choice
for SIEM report.
“As digital transformation accelerates across
the Middle East and Africa, organizations need a secure foundation for adopting
new applications and services. Together with MCS, we are enabling them to
deploy innovative cybersecurity solutions with a simple and efficient model. Our partnership is focused on helping more
organizations manage their risk, reduce complexity and benefit from a ‘security
first’ approach,” said Mazen
A. Dohaji, Vice President, India, Middle East, Turkey & Africa (iMETA) at
LogRhythm. “This is an
opportunity to provide cybersecurity in some of the most rapidly digitizing
markets in the world.”
MCS will offer LogRhythm’s NextGen SIEM
platform to its new and existing customers across the Middle East and 10
eastern and central African countries. It combines cybersecurity solutions with
its suite of SD-WAN, cloud enablement, automation, data management and other
enterprise IT solutions. LogRhythm will provide the MCS team with technical
training in its platform to ensure seamless delivery for customers.
“Cybersecurity is a core pillar of our offering and it adds value
to all of the other solutions that we deliver. Our partnership with LogRhythm
enables us to take a world-leading platform and deliver it in rapidly
transforming local markets,” said, Mr Ali Azzam, Director of Sales at MCS. “We
partnered with LogRhythm because of its proven technology as well as its
commitment to partners and end customers. It is continually evolving its
technology and services to benefit a growing number of organizations. We look
forward to growing our businesses together and enabling the success of our
customers in a growing number of markets in the Middle East and Africa.”
Headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, MCS has built a track record of
enabling the success of its customers across multiple African markets. In 2020,
MCS launched a permanent office in Nairobi to manage MCS operations in eastern
and central Africa. In 2023, MCS plans to serve most of the African continent
with on the ground presence.
About LogRhythm
LogRhythm’s award-winning NextGen SIEM Platform makes the world
safer by protecting organizations, employees, and customers from the latest
cyberthreats. It does this by providing a comprehensive platform with the latest
security functionality, including security analytics; network detection and
response (NDR); user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA); and security
orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). Learn how LogRhythm empowers
companies to be security first at logrhythm.com.
About MCS
Since startup in 2006, Mideast Communication Systems (MCS) had the
knowhow to become the leading regional IT Solutions Provider by delivering a
competitive portfolio of security solutions and reliable services to the
market. MCS has a preceding role as a leading value-added distributor in
introducing new trends to the market in Cyber Security, Risk &
Vulnerability Management Web and Mail Security to the Market and launching new
Concept in Products Distribution.
MCS has a new vision to manage and orchestrate all internal and
external communications aiming to create a propitious point of view among all
stakeholders. MCS holding has adapted an integrative communication structure
linking the sister companies together and connecting them to the IT market
effectively to attain integral solutions to all business sectors and fulfil the
local and regional market needs.