Author: Charissa Swanepoel
Clearwater: TECHz Magazine – News Desk KnowBe4 has officially expanded its email and collaboration security portfolio with the launch of Defend for Google Workspace. Targeting phishing, business email compromise, and AI-driven threats, the new product brings advanced threat detection and real-time employee coaching to organizations utilizing Gmail and related workspace tools. At its core, the platform utilizes a behavioral AI model trained on KnowBe4’s proprietary telemetry of over 1.15 billion daily event signals. The system evaluates incoming messages across multiple intent signals simultaneously to intercept zero-payload phishing, credential harvesting, and prompt injection attacks that native controls often miss. Rather than…
Riyadh: TECHz Magazine – News Desk ServiceNow and Aramco Digital have officially signed a collaboration agreement to drive AI-powered enterprise transformation across Aramco’s network of affiliates, subsidiaries, and joint ventures spanning over 50 countries. Leveraging a platform that currently processes more than 100 billion workflows annually, Aramco Digital aims to unify fragmented operations and establish a consistent, scalable digital ecosystem. The partnership will streamline global operations by integrating intelligent AI workflows to reduce manual processes, deploying unified customer experience solutions, standardizing group shared services, and modernizing legacy ERP systems to lower technical debt. Operating as a Saudi-based industrial AI subsidiary,…
Riyadh: TECHz Magazine – News Desk stc group and Ericsson have signed a multi-year agreement at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to significantly expand the 5G network across Saudi Arabia. The partnership focuses on upgrading existing infrastructure, deploying new network sites, and extending the reach of 5G Standalone networks to support the nation’s digital transformation. This agreement marks the world’s first commercial deployment of the Ericsson Radio 4496, a quad-band Frequency Division Duplexing unit that aggregates four low-frequency bands into a single high-power 400-watt system. The rollout activates stc group’s recently acquired 600 MHz spectrum, which, when combined with mid-band deployments,…
Oman: TECHz Magazine – News Desk On August 29, 2026, the Sultanate of Oman officially launched the National Cyber Security Strategy 2026 – 2030, a comprehensive five-year framework designed to secure the nation’s rapidly expanding digital infrastructure. Authored by the Cyber Defence Centre in collaboration with public and private sector partners, the strategy safeguards national data assets, digital identity systems, and essential services in direct alignment with the digital economy goals of Oman Vision 2040. The multi-year strategy establishes unified national defense standards based on five foundational pillars. It focuses on cybersecurity governance to update legislation and enforce accountability across…
Riyadh: TECHz Magazine – News Desk At the LEAP 2026 technology event in Riyadh, Ericsson and Mobily officially signed Memorandums of Understanding to accelerate the deployment of AI-driven Radio Access Networks and elevate autonomous network operations in Saudi Arabia. Under the agreement, Mobily will leverage Artificial Intelligence within its infrastructure by utilizing rApps on the Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform. The collaboration focuses on integrating AI software functionalities across RAN Compute, radio, and Active Antenna Systems alongside centralized AI use cases. Mobily is also set to join the automation ecosystem, gaining access to over 100 available rApps and a broader community…
Dubai: TECHz Magazine – News Desk As Gulf region governments aggressively digitize tax administration, global compliance provider ClearTax has partnered with open-source business management platform Odoo to deliver a native integration streamlining e-invoicing and indirect tax compliance. This collaboration directly targets the operational friction created by new mandates, such as Saudi Arabia’s ZATCA framework and the UAE’s upcoming e-invoicing rollout. By embedding ClearTax’s infrastructure directly into Odoo’s ecosystem, a new dedicated connector allows businesses to manage evolving regulatory requirements without leaving their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) workflows. The rollout will initially benefit an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 small and…
Riyadh: TECHz Magazine – News Desk ZEDEDA and VAS Limited have officially signed a distribution agreement to introduce ZEDEDA’s Edge Intelligence Platform to Saudi Arabia. The strategic partnership aims to accelerate the deployment of scalable edge AI applications across the Kingdom, aligning directly with the digital infrastructure goals outlined in Vision 2030. As Saudi Arabia continues its push toward AI-driven modernization, deploying these applications at scale requires an active on-the-ground engineering layer. VAS Limited, established in Riyadh in 2024 as the regional office of VAS Integrated Solutions, provides vendor-certified teams to manage the complete project lifecycle from advisory and design…
Riyadh: TECHz Magazine – News Desk Magna AI and VAST Data have announced a strategic collaboration to advance sovereign AI infrastructure and AI factories across Saudi Arabia. The partnership brings together Magna AI’s full-stack sovereign AI transformation capabilities with VAST Data’s high-performance AI data platform to support the Kingdom’s rapidly expanding digital economy. The collaboration integrates complementary capabilities to enable large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for Saudi enterprises and government entities. VAST Data will provide its AI Operating System, which consolidates structured and unstructured data into a unified environment to eliminate data silos and ensure high-speed, low-latency access…
Bahrain: TECHz Magazine – News Desk BENEFIT, Bahrain’s leading fintech and electronic financial transactions provider, has officially integrated the Bahrain Credit Reference Bureau with the Oman Credit and Financial Information Centre (Mala’a). This milestone advances the creation of a unified, transparent credit information ecosystem across the Gulf Cooperation Council. The technical integration follows a strategic bilateral agreement signed in August 2023 and executes a mandate from the 2016 GCC Supreme Council to establish a framework for cross-border credit data exchange. With Bahrain already connected to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the addition of Oman establishes a robust, multi-nation financial data infrastructure.…
Abuja-Lagos: TECHz Magazine – News Desk NITDA Director-General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi and InfraCorp CEO Dr. Lazarus Angbazo are spearheading a joint investment strategy to modernize domestic digital infrastructure. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and InfraCorp are advancing plans to operationalize a comprehensive investment framework that bridges the public and private sectors. This collaboration is designed to build an investment-ready sovereign cloud ecosystem capable of supporting the nation’s rapidly expanding digital economy, with a primary focus on unlocking local funding, attracting foreign direct investment, and ensuring critical national data remains within Nigeria’s borders. The engagement prioritizes actionable funding models…