CQR (Absolute Answer for Cybersecurity Co.), Saudi Arabia’s first firm specializing in operational know-how (OT) cybersecurity and important infrastructure safety, has signed a Grasp Providers Settlement (MSA) with sirar by stc, establishing a framework for collaboration to ship specialised cybersecurity options and companies for operational know-how (OT), Web of Issues (IoT) and Industrial Web of Issues (IIoT) environments throughout the Kingdom.
The settlement brings collectively CQR’s Saudi-developed applied sciences and specialised industrial cybersecurity experience with sirar by stc’s managed cybersecurity capabilities to develop an built-in mannequin that helps organizations shield their vital property and operations whereas addressing the rising cyber dangers going through industrial and operational environments.
On the coronary heart of the collaboration is FENNEC, CQR’s platform designed and developed in Saudi Arabia particularly to guard vital infrastructure and sophisticated industrial environments. The platform offers complete, up-to-date visibility into vital property, along with process-aware safety monitoring, steady compliance and dynamic threat intelligence, enabling organizations to develop a extra correct understanding of cyber dangers that would have an effect on security, manufacturing and enterprise continuity.
The settlement additionally helps the shared ambition of CQR and sirar by stc to determine a sovereign, AI-enabled OT and IoT Cybersecurity Monitoring and Assurance Heart, bringing collectively CQR’s technical and industrial experience with sirar by stc’s managed cybersecurity capabilities. The proposed heart is meant to strengthen native capabilities in defending operational environments and important infrastructure throughout the Kingdom.
Commenting on the settlement, Naser Al-Dossary, CEO of CQR, mentioned: “Cyber sovereignty begins with proudly owning the know-how, data and capabilities required to guard our most important environments. With this in thoughts, we designed and developed FENNEC in Saudi Arabia to fulfill the specialised necessities of business and operational environments. We consider that native know-how improvement and localization are elementary to strengthening nationwide capabilities and constructing a extra unbiased and sustainable cybersecurity ecosystem, consistent with the aims of Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030. By means of our collaboration with sirar by stc, we look ahead to extending the affect of those capabilities, enabling organizations to higher perceive and handle cyber threat, and strengthening the safety of their vital infrastructure and operations.”
Al-Dossary added that FENNEC leverages synthetic intelligence to help specialist analysts in deciphering safety alerts, prioritizing dangers, guiding investigations and assessing potential operational impacts, whereas guaranteeing that selections that would have an effect on manufacturing stay topic to skilled human oversight.
He additionally famous that the platform permits organizations to categorise property in keeping with their criticality, operational perform and potential affect on security, manufacturing and enterprise continuity. By linking safety alerts to asset and course of context, FENNEC helps cybersecurity groups prioritize response actions primarily based on precise operational affect.
For his half, Yaser Al-Swailem, CEO of sirar by stc, mentioned: “This settlement represents an necessary step towards strengthening Saudi Arabia’s sovereign cybersecurity capabilities. By combining sirar by stc’s managed cybersecurity capabilities with CQR’s Saudi-developed applied sciences and specialised industrial experience, we goal to offer organizations with an built-in and scalable mannequin for safeguarding their vital OT and IoT environments.”
The potential scope of collaboration, to be agreed individually, could embrace a spread of specialised companies, together with OT and IoT cybersecurity maturity assessments, regulatory hole evaluation, vital asset identification, safe structure design, FENNEC deployment and know-how integration, in addition to managed safety monitoring, risk searching, incident response, steady compliance, threat evaluation, coaching and data switch.
FENNEC can also be appropriate with the Kingdom’s transfer towards devoted 450 MHz industrial communications networks and is designed to find, monitor and safe OT, IoT and IIoT property working throughout these networks, in addition to related industrial sensible radio units.
As a part of the longer term path of the collaboration, the 2 events additionally plan to determine an OT and IoT {Hardware}, Firmware and Related-Machine Safety Evaluation Lab. The proposed facility would conduct specialised assessments of business gear, embedded methods and linked units in a managed atmosphere, with the findings supporting FENNEC’s monitoring, compliance and threat administration capabilities.
