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Cerebra, is a software products company that develops next-generation cybersecurity technologies, based in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Brief about the company
Cerebra is software products company that engages in the design and development of next-generation cybersecurity technologies headquartered in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Our quest is to achieve Cybersecurity Technology Independence across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, to transform the region from a Passive Cybersecurity Technology Consumer to a Dynamic and Futuristic Cybersecurity Technology Producer, in order help protect against modern-day malicious actors in the cyberspace. Our quest is also to align and contribute towards the realization of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
OUR PRODUCTS
Products Brief
LinQ2
is a powerful enterprise messaging gateway and communication platform that enables systems and applications to send and receive messages through SMS, Email or Mobile Push Notifications.
mPass
is a multi-factor authentication solution that provides better security for any organization looking to protect its employees from fraud attacks, phishing, and password related attacks.
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Infoshield
is a comprehensive cybersecurity awareness platform that aims to spread knowledge about the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity.
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PhishGuard
is a comprehensive phishing simulation solution that aims to raise the level of security awareness of your employees on various phishing scams.
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TESTIMONIALS
What our clients say about us
Mohammed K. AlDhahri
Al Nefaie Investment Group
I would like to express our sincere appreciation for your service to us that you have provided the highest quality cyber security products local in KSA with even better customer service.
LATEST ARTICLES
Deep dive in the cyber world
Enterprise Messaging Gateway: What is it? And What are its Types?
With technology evolving day by day, new developments are being made to align with today’s fast-paced society and especially with remote work culture where we don’t meet people as often as we used to. Any business or organization must take this into consideration to keep up with the current trends. One of the notable evolvements that occurred is the means of communication. The way we communicate with one another changes as technology evolves. Calls, formerly, were the most common way for businesses to communicate with their customers, however, it has been revealed that 87% of the 97% of customers who reject calls from businesses, ...
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The 5 Major Cybersecurity Threats Against the Healthcare Industry in 2021
The healthcare industry is known for being one of the primary targets for cybercriminals, and by 2020 it was ranked as the seventh most attacked sector. Unfortunately, hospitals, clinics, and medical laboratories have experienced a rise in these attacks in the last two years. And with the recent pandemic, cybercriminals took advantage of this event and launched many of their destructive plans. These attacks are mainly motivated by financial gain. They either sell the stolen data or request ransom money from their victims to enable them back access to their data. For instance, at the end of 2020, a major ...
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Bio-metric Authentication: Is it reliable?
Introduction The history of bio-metrics used as an authentication tool dates to the 1800s. It was first used by the French to identify criminals through their fingerprints, which later the English police commissioner, Edward Henry, developed HCS “Henry Classification System”. It was a system that relied on fingerprints to identify people who have been prosecuted, it was a prime way of classification used by the police during the 20th century. As the years continued, new biological traits started being used in bio-metric authentication which in result are replacing traditional methods of authentication. Any invention introduced in the cyber world ...
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Recent Phishing Attacks in Saudi Arabia
Since the beginning of 2020 due to COVID-19 people have been social distancing and staying indoors as much as possible. Due to that the use of the Internet, E-commerce sites, and E-government operations have increased immensely and so have the attempts at phishing attacks. His Excellency Dr. Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Sabti, Governor of the Cybersecurity Authority, spoke during the opening of the Global Cybersecurity Conference on April 7th, 2021, about the high increase in phishing sites by about 300% and the importance of being aware. Below (Figure A-1 & A-2) we can see two different examples of Smishing Attacks during ...
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Phishing Emails & How to Spot them
Cyber-attacks come in a variety of formats and with the advancement of technology it continues to improve. Phishing is a common type of cyber-attack used by cyber criminals, and according to Proofpoint’s threat report, 75% of organizations experienced a Phishing attack in 2020 (Proofpoint 2021 state of the Phish report). Cyber criminals found a higher success rate in achieving their goals thorough email phishing rather than any other approach. This is due to the lack of awareness and knowledge on how to identify legitimate emails from fake ones. There are many ways that could help organizations in decreasing the numbers ...
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Social Engineering, It’s tactics and Prevention
Social engineers have found numerous approaches to exploit victims of their personal information. With the continuous increase of new cyber threats, society should be constantly informed and educated on how to distinguish and prevent them. Due to the direct interaction with the human user, social engineering is one of the most powerful methods of network penetration. Its success rate depends highly on the targeted individual’s knowledge and awareness. If they are oblivious of their tactics, then this makes the attacker’s job easy. Unfortunately, many fall for their schemes. Social engineering depends on human interactions and the flaws of humans. According ...
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The Latest Cyber Threats After the Recent Global Pandemic
With the hit of the global pandemic and its effect on the world, cyber criminals took this to their advantage and capitalized on it. From the beginning of 2020, people’s lives changed drastically but especially employees and students. Online schooling and working from home are now the new norm and people needed to make this new adjustment while experiencing new threats and tactics from cyber criminals. Before the pandemic, cyber-attacks were a continuous issue for many but with more educational information on how to catch on to their tricks led to lower percentages of successful scams. But now, these criminals ...
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Latest Trends in Phishing and How to Protect Yourself Against Them
Phishing attacks are not something that has come up recently. Such attacks have been around since the mid 90s, however, overtime, they have become more sophisticated. To make things worse, did you know that 32% of confirmed data breaches involved phishing? (Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report) And 57% of the organizations report having experienced mobile phishing attacks! (Wandera’s 2020 Mobile Threat Landscape Report). Before moving on to the latest trends in phishing, let us define it. What is Phishing? Phishing is one of the easiest and most common types of cyber attacks used by criminals and among the easiest ...
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MFA is the New Firewall
Introduction: In the early days, Cybersecurity (then called IT Security or information security) used to be merely a username and password. If you ask to someone, they would say I have a username and password so I am safe. It wasn’t much of the internet at that time. Eventually, people have learned that password isn’t sufficient to protect their digital assets. So Antivirus (AV) software flourished and we saw a plethora of internet security solutions that revolve around AVs used to catch the known malicious code which was enough of a validation for the vendors. Again, fast forward a couple ...
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