Xona Systems, a provider of secure access solutions for critical infrastructure and OT (operational technology) environments, announced its expansion into the Middle East market to offer essential cybersecurity capabilities and improve public safety. The company is committed to providing organizations with secure access for critical infrastructure, including OT, information technology, and cloud systems.
The Xona Middle East team is now serving and supporting customers and potential customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and others. The Xona secure access platform enables organizations to securely access critical systems anytime, anywhere by combining modern multi-factor authentication (MFA), granular system authorization, protocol isolation, encrypted browser-based sessions, and session logging and recording.
Purpose-built for compliance, Xona is mapped to key regulatory compliance frameworks, including NIST, NERC CIP, and ISA/IEC, to protect sensitive data, improve critical system security postures, and maintain trust.
“We are expanding our focus and reach in the EMEA region building on our successes in the Middle East as a direct response to the region’s growing demand for cybersecurity solutions tailored to critical infrastructure,” said Paul Wood, general manager of EMEA and APAC at Xona Systems. “Our mission is to serve Middle East organizations with local resources and to ensure they are protected from cyber threats by providing secure access to critical infrastructure, enabling critical operations to happen from anywhere with confidence and trust.”
Wood added that by building a strong team and partnerships, “we are better able to serve our current and prospective customers as we continue to accelerate into our next phase of growth.”
Key Xona Middle East highlights include:
- New customers: Key customers across EMEA are helping fund new go-to-market initiatives and sales, support, and channel growth in the Middle East region.
- New partnerships: New strategic partnerships are expanding Xona’s sales and marketing exposure and reach within the region helping the company generate even more business as Xona continues to focus on a channel-driven growth strategy.
- Local teams and support: Expanded sales, engineering, marketing, and customer success resources across the region are focused on building increased customer sales momentum, marketing investments, and greater market awareness.
- Secure access platform: Recent secure access product enhancements such as the Xona centralized manager, are helping customers simplify secure access to their critical infrastructure and systems, reduce the risks to those critical systems, and improve their audit, compliance, and governance around their secure access program.
“Companies in the Middle East are acutely aware that cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure are increasing and operational enterprises are working to address the growing attack surfaces posed by distributed and remote work environments,” said Manu Nair of Oregon Systems. “The consequences of a cyber attack on critical infrastructure and systems can be profound, as they can lead to the disruption of operational systems and essential services. Xona is changing the way organizations protect themselves by solving access and liability problems through secure access and protecting these critical systems from insecure transient endpoints.”
In October, Xona announced its continued expansion in the public sector with a strategic focus on the federal government to deliver critical cyber capabilities and enhance public safety.