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Saudi Arabia’s government and private sectors are advancing in cybersecurity, with the leadership strongly emphasising the importance of electronic information protection, according to a top official from the World Economic Forum. Akshay Joshi, head of the industry and partnerships at the Center for Cybersecurity at the WEF, highlighted Saudi efforts in cybersecurity and its role

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development on Tuesday issued a decision to localize 35 percent of consultancy professions and businesses effective as of April 6, 2023. In the second phase, the ministry seeks to increase the ratio to 40 percent as of March 24, 2023. The decision targets all professions in

Government-imposed rules on incident reporting by organizations impacted by cyberattacks are not new – many sectors have been subjected to them for decades. What is new is that governments are introducing new, more stringent incident reporting rules that will affect a broader set of organizations. The new reporting requirements indicate that the regulators are setting