The company’s META office will feature a state-of-the-art Critical Infrastructure Protection lab, and offer CDR and other technologies to an expanded market.
OPSWAT has unveiled its Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) regional office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The move is aimed at answering the increasing demand across the region for zero-trust cybersecurity solutions capable of safeguarding critical infrastructure. The opening of OPSWAT’s Dubai office closely follows a period of significant growth for the company in the region.
Over the past 12 months its regional momentum has included 60% growth in revenue, 50% growth in its customer base, a 50% increase in the number of projects, and a substantial increase in the company’s operational resources. More than 50 GCC ministries selected OPSWAT in the past year and the company is also actively working with almost all the region’s oil and gas companies. In the financial services sector, OPSWAT has provided solutions and products to 43 regional banks — including eight central banks — since March 2022, and is in the POC stage with approximately 50 other FSI entities.
“This office opening is timely, as we will have an on-the-ground presence in a market where we are fast becoming the vendor of choice for government ministries and banks. Our expectation is to see at least 500 companies as our customers in the META region by the end of this year,” said Sertan Selcuk, VP of Sales, Middle East, Turkey, Africa & Pakistan (METAP), OPSWAT.
Selcuk explained that the ongoing merger between IT and OT has added many layers of complexity to securing critical infrastructure. IT cybersecurity solutions lack the tools to protect such infrastructure and very few security professionals have the skills to tackle the current threat landscape as it relates to OT. A further challenge is that few training and certification programs focus on critical infrastructure protection.
Its hub presence will ease OPSWAT’s engagement with partners and customers, who will get face-to-face access to industry experts. Apart from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, OPSWAT has witnessed a significant growth in Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. “We are also in the midst of a very aggressive restructuring in Turkey, which is home to more than one million manufacturers,” Selcuk continued. Next year they will focus on Pakistan and South Africa and plan to manage all the countries in the META region from their new offices in Dubai.
