Anomali Strengthens Regional Cyber Resilience with AI-Powered Platform Launch on AWS UAE

At GITEX Global 2025, Samer Jadallah, Vice President of Sales – Middle East and Africa at Anomali, highlighted the company’s launch of its AI-driven Security and IT Operations Platform on AWS UAE, offering local data residency, PDPL compliance, and intelligence-led threat detection. He emphasized how agentic AI, Trusted Circles collaboration, and Zero Trust ecosystems are enabling enterprises across the Middle East to transform compliance into a foundation for long-term cyber resilience and digital trust.

How does launching your AI-powered platform on AWS UAE enhance security and compliance for local enterprises?
Launching our AI-powered Security and IT Operations Platform on AWS in the UAE represents a major milestone in our regional strategy. It brings cloud-native cybersecurity capabilities to enterprises with full data residency, ensuring alignment with UAE’s PDPL and other regulatory mandates. By hosting locally on AWS, organizations gain access to intelligence-driven detection, investigation, and response within a unified, high-speed data lake, empowering them to modernize security operations, reduce costs, and maintain full compliance. This move also deepens our global partnership with AWS, delivering trusted local cloud innovation that supports the UAE’s vision of a secure, sovereign digital economy.

How is Anomali turning compliance into a foundation for stronger cyber resilience?
Across the GCC, compliance is no longer just a regulatory requirement—it’s becoming the foundation of resilience. New mandates in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are driving a shift from static governance to proactive, intelligence-led defense. Anomali helps enterprises use compliance as an opportunity to build continuous visibility, smarter decision-making, and predictive threat detection into daily operations. Our platform enables leaders to connect compliance and context, turning governance frameworks into actionable insights. Done right, compliance becomes an enabler of trust and a driver of cyber maturity, not just a checkbox exercise.

How does your platform use AI to counter advanced threats like deepfakes and phishing?
AI has become both the attacker’s tool and the defender’s advantage. At Anomali, we’re using governed, agentic AI to give defenders the upper hand. Our platform applies AI and machine learning across every workflow – from threat detection and enrichment to prioritization and automated response. It identifies anomalies such as deepfakes, spoofed identities and AI-driven phishing campaigns in real time.

With innovations like Anomali Copilot and ThreatStream, we’re fusing the world’s largest threat intelligence libraries with contextual analytics – helping analysts make faster, more accurate decisions while maintaining human oversight and ethical governance.

How is Anomali’s Trusted Circles driving collaboration and shared resilience in the region?
Cyber resilience can’t happen in isolation. Trusted Circles is the innovation for secure intelligence sharing that formalizes collaboration to strengthen the entire regional cyber ecosystem.

• Force multiplier: It helps enterprises and governments counter weaponized AI attacks (like deepfakes and advanced phishing) through collective defense, turning intelligence sharing into a force multiplier.
• Shared resilience: This innovation supports the accelerating regional trend of public-private collaboration, where governments and enterprises work hand-in-hand to protect critical infrastructure and sustain long-term cyber readiness.
• Ecosystem focus: The investment in these threat-sharing ecosystems reflects Anomali’s commitment to prioritizing trusted collaboration to build resilience beyond individual organizations.

How does your regional expansion align with UAE and KSA cybersecurity priorities?
Our regional expansion, anchored by our launch on AWS UAE and future rollout in Saudi Arabia, aligns directly with both nations’ cybersecurity visions and digital transformation agendas. The UAE’s regulatory focus on data sovereignty, cryptography and compliance maturity and Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 goal of embedding cybersecurity into economic transformation, mirror our mission to deliver proactive, AI-powered resilience. We’re not just bringing technology; we’re building local capacity – investing in regional cloud infrastructure, partnerships and cyber talent to ensure our customers can turn compliance into a long-term competitive advantage.

How can organizations secure third-party ecosystems under a Zero Trust model?
The digital supply chain is now the most exploited attack surface. Organizations must assume that no user, device or partner can be automatically trusted. Anomali helps enterprises extend Zero Trust principles across their third-party ecosystems providing continuous monitoring, threat correlation and risk-based validation of every partner connection. Through advanced threat intelligence integration and automation, our platform gives organizations the visibility needed to secure APIs, vendors and supply chain dependencies thereby raising the collective security baseline across the ecosystem.