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ThreatQuotient Enters Middle East IT Security Market Through

Partnership Agreement with Help AG

As a fully certified Gold Level Partner, Help AG will now deliver consultancy, implementation
and support services for the ThreatQ threat intelligence platform to large enterprises across the
region

Dubai, United Arab Emirates- 04 September, 2016: Help AG, a leading information security
services and solutions provider in the Middle East, today announced the signing of a reseller
agreement with ThreatQuotient.

As the vendor’s first regional partner, Help AG has achieved the Gold Partner status under
ThreatQuotient’s Threat Alliance Program (TAP) and will offer the ThreatQ threat intelligence
platform to enterprises looking to augment their Security Intelligence and Event Management
(SIEM) capabilities or build their own Security Operations Centers. Help AG will also utilize the
platform for its own 24x7 Managed Security Services (MSS) offering.

“In recent years, even large organizations with significant IT security investments have been
falling victim to data breaches that disrupt business, cause the loss of sensitive company data
that ultimately results in irreparable damage to their brand. This makes threat intelligence a
critical element of a business’s security posture,” said Stephan Berner, CEO at Help AG. The
benefits of threat intelligence are widely backed by the IT security community.

As a case in point, recent research by the Ponemon Institute found that 80% of IT decision
makers whose organizations suffered data breaches believe having threat intelligence at the
time of the breach could have prevented or minimized the consequences of the attack .

The focus of the agreement is on enterprise-sized customers and Help AG intends to offer
ThreatQ to organizations from the Banking and Finance, Government, Oil and Gas, Retail,
Telco, and Media sectors.

ThreatQ centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security
and analytics solutions for contextual and operationalised intelligence in a single view. As a
result,

ThreatQ enables threat intelligence teams to shift their focus to analysis, and improve their
security operations by reducing the amount of effort traditionally exerted into combining data
sources.

As part of the partnership agreement, Help AG was required to have a team of security analysts
with a keen understanding of incident management methodology and best practices such as
SANS.

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