SAMI-AEC MDR
Towards A Sophisticated and Resilient Cyberspace
With an unwavering commitment to realizing Vision 2030, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is actively embedding best-in-class technology solutions and tools across enterprises and industries. Transitioning towards a digitally enabled nation presents a plethora of threats to cyberspace — cumulatively 110 million threats being detected in 2022. [1] Saudi Arabia is committed to cybersecurity, garnering second rank globally in commitment to cybersecurity. 73% of Saudi Arabia’s organizations reported cyber threats have emerged as a top concern in KSA. [2] Strikingly, organizations have expressed grief and concerns about cloud-related threats (70%) and attacks on connected devices (67%). In a bid to combat these vulnerabilities, 73% of organizations are prioritizing digital and technology-related risks. [2] To this end, Saudi Arabia is making significant efforts to advance the cybersecurity landscape by introducing numerous cybersecurity programs, training, and education resources.
Saudi Arabia's Strategic Efforts to Enhance Cybersecurity: [2]
- Cyber Investment Priorities for 2024
In Saudi Arabia, 62% prioritize optimizing current technology and investments, followed by 54% focusing on new business initiatives, and 46% addressing remediation after cyber breaches.
- Cybersecurity Talent Gap
Despite Saudi Arabia's investments in digital tools, labs, academies, and technologies to upskill its workforce, there is a concern about the immediate cyber talent shortage. According to our 2024 Global Digital Trust Report, 70% of Saudi respondents prioritize identifying the right candidates, while 60% focus on rapidly upskilling the current workforce to meet organizational demands.
- Regulatory Goals
In Saudi Arabia, 40% prioritize harmonized cyber and data protection laws (vs. 36% globally). An equal number believe in shifting liability for cyber failures to companies like device makers and software firms. Additionally, 37% demand regulatory requirements for operational resilience.
A Cybersecurity Imperative for KSA’s Modern Enterprises
As cyberattacks are becoming more pervasive, faster, and ingenious, the need for collaboration as an extension of an organization’s team is becoming more apparent. This is critical to ensure holistic security, maximize productivity, and safeguard current investments.
An incessant rise in cyberattack volumes can be attributed to remote working means businesses. Evidently, 2.47 breaches on average have been reported per organization. 94% mentioned suffering from a material breach, and 84% stated attacks spiraled due to remote working. [3] Erratic employees’ behavior is crafting blind spots and dark corners in the cybersec landscape. What's more, CISOs proclaim that perceiving third-party apps has been serving as an open end for organizations’ exposure to data breaches. [3] A significant portion of CISOs put forth the need for enhanced visibility over data and apps to avert attacks. It is critical to embed contextual security to stay on the edge of data security through the application lifecycle. Skills shortage is propelling organizations (42%) to outsource cybersecurity functions. [4] Along these lines, organizations can benefit from Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, offering security operations center (SOC) functions remotely, [5] to safeguard digital assets and sustain stakeholders’ trust. Leveraging proactive threat disruption and containment techniques, MDR promotes swift threat detection, analysis, investigation, and response. Combining a range of cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies, managed services offer 360-degree threat hunting and incident management, improving business productivity while minimizing threats.
SAMI-AEC Managed Detection and Response
SAMI-AEC Managed Detection and Response (MDR) has emerged as a regional leader, enabling organizations across Saudi Arabia to curtail cyber risks. As a vendor-agnostic threat solution, SAMI-AEC MDR seamlessly manages alerts, provides better visibility into threats, and optimizes security programs. With comprehensive assessments, penetration testing, and evaluation of cloud infrastructure, SAMI-AEC fortifies organization’s data in the cloud environment; preventing breaches, leakage, and deletion. It empowers organizations across the Kingdom with extensive SeOps teams offering round-the-clock threat monitoring for malicious activities. Ensuring the deployment of cutting-edge tools, enabling organizations to focus on strategic operations. Consequently, organizations can effortlessly navigate the threats looming on the cyberscape, minimizing costs, optimizing inefficiencies, and addressing issues including alert fatigue and employee burnout.
Unleashing Proactive Threat Detection and Mitigation for KSA Organizations
- Fuel business transformation
Everything in a hybrid cloud environment generates data, mostly collated through diverse sources. Revolutionize existing tools and services into an integrated, round-the-clock managed solution, strongly backed by our threat intelligence, SIEM management, and log analytics & monitoring.
- Promote proactive security to curtail risk
Avert vulnerabilities and threats, before their occurrence. Gain insights about your detection effectiveness, and get tailored recommendations defining ways to improve your security posture with continuous assessment and recommendations and a tailored MDR playbook.
- Foster continuous security operations improvement
Scale capabilities to gain in-depth visibility into the cyber environment and promote collaboration to ensure threats are contained and remediated as and when detected—minimizing business risk while reducing damages and interruption of services.
SAMI-AEC's MDR empowers organizations across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to protect and enhance existing cybersecurity investments, practice proactive security to reinforce defenses, and continuously improve security operations. Combining a range of state-of-the-art technologies and human strength, SAMI-AEC offers continuous monitoring coupled with threat detection, response, and remediation. This ensures a well-guarded digital environment for Saudi Arabia’s organizations, allowing them to rapidly detect and respond to cyber threats without needing additional internal resources.
