By TradingView
Publication Date: 2026-10-20 10:29:00
By Staff Writer
UAE organisations are adopting AI-powered security at pace and seeing clear improvements in how quickly they detect and respond to threats, according to new research from Cisco.
However, the findings show that organisational factors, including how teams coordinate and how easily they can access security data, remain the main constraint on further progress, as they are globally.
The UAE findings from Cisco’s Relentless Defence Report assess organisations on three areas: how completely they can protect their environment, how quickly they can detect, respond to and remediate threats, and what slows them down.
Relentless Defenders
UAE organisations recorded an overall score of 65.7 out of 100, compared with a global average of 63.9. 13% of UAE organisations qualified as Relentless Defenders, the top-performing group, compared with 8% globally.
Fady Younes, Managing Director, Cybersecurity, Cisco Middle East, Türkiye, Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia (METAC) at Cisco, said:…
