Amaneeya brings together healthcare sector leaders to enhance readiness to face accelerating cyber challenges

The workshop is part of Amaneeyah's approach to working with its clients beyond providing technical solutions and services. Through its relationship with institutions from various sectors in the Kingdom, Amaneeyah is keen to share expertise and knowledge and to keep its clients informed about the latest developments and challenges in a rapidly changing technological and cyber environment, helping them to understand what these changes mean for their businesses and to prepare for them.

Cyber readiness is of particular importance in the healthcare sector, where technology has become an essential part of managing medical records, diagnostic services, operational systems, and communication with patients. In this context, the impact of cyber incidents is not limited to data or technical systems, but can extend to the continuity of vital services and operations that healthcare institutions rely on daily.

The discussions focused on the importance of treating cybersecurity as an integrated system that includes prevention, continuous monitoring, early threat detection, incident response, and recovery. Amaneeyah also reviewed the role of its Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) in round-the-clock security monitoring, early detection and incident response, alongside its capabilities in protecting networks and systems, advisory services, governance, vulnerability assessment, and security readiness, and the role of artificial intelligence technologies in developing detection and response capabilities.

Amaneeya's dialogue is based on practical experience in serving the healthcare sector, where its customer base includes some of the Kingdom's leading healthcare institutions, as well as companies and organizations of various sizes and sectors.

Over the years, Amaneeyah has expanded its business capabilities to include connectivity and interconnection services, cloud computing, cybersecurity, managed services, data centers, and ICT solutions, enabling it to support a wide range of institutional needs through a single technology partner that combines infrastructure, services, and technical expertise.

Amaneeya continues to invest in developing these capabilities and the infrastructure that supports them, from its networks and cyber security operations centers and networks to its data centers. The company is preparing to launch its new data center in Amman, which will be the largest in the capital, a move that will enhance the volume and potential of the digital infrastructure it provides to businesses and institutions in Jordan.

Abdul Salam Abaydat, CEO of Business Sector at Amaneeyah, said: "Our relationship with our clients is not limited to providing them with services and solutions, but also includes helping them keep pace with the rapid changes in technology and understand what they mean for their businesses. This is particularly important in sectors such as healthcare, where we work with some of the Kingdom's leading institutions and understand the nature of their needs and the sensitivity of the systems they rely on."

Abaydat added: "What we offer our clients does not start or end with connectivity. Today, we have capabilities in cloud computing, cybersecurity, managed services, data centers, and ICT solutions, and we continue to invest in developing them. Our goal is for the client to find in Amaneeyah a technology partner that understands their business, helps them prepare for what is to come, and supports them as their needs evolve."

Amjad Farouqah, Executive Director of Information Security and Business Continuity at Amaneeyah, said: "In the healthcare sector, cybersecurity cannot be considered in isolation from business continuity. A cyber incident may start with a system or device, but its impact can extend to systems and operations on which the institution relies to provide its services. Therefore, protection alone is not enough; institutions must be able to detect threats early, respond to them, contain their impact, and restore their operations as quickly as possible."

Farouqah added: "Cyber risks are constantly changing, as are the tools used to address them. This is why we are keen to keep the dialogue with our clients ongoing, sharing with them what we see in terms of new developments, threats, and practices, so that readiness is not a response to an incident after it has occurred, but part of the institution's risk management and business continuity approach."

The workshop concluded with interactive discussions between hospital officials and technical experts on the challenges facing the sector, the priorities of cyber risk management, compliance, and business continuity, and the actual needs of private healthcare institutions, enabling the exchange of experiences, listening to the sector's priorities, and discussing how to prepare for future changes.