
Published on: 4/4/2026
The Cyber Blind Spot in Your ERP Migration
What the Conflict Means for Cloud Projects in the Gulf
On 1 March 2026, Iranian drone strikes hit three AWS data centres in the UAE and Bahrain, knocking 109 cloud services offline and disabling banking, payments, and enterprise platforms across the region. Simultaneously, the UAE Cybersecurity Council reported intercepting up to 200,000 cyberattacks per day, with over 70% linked to state-sponsored actors. Any organisation mid-flight on an ERP-to-cloud migration is now running that project across a live threat surface they did not plan for.
