What key messages or solutions are you highlighting at GISEC this year?
At GISEC this year, we’re showcasing how Nozomi Networks is accelerating digital transformation while safeguarding critical infrastructure. Our focus is on delivering unified OT, IoT, and ICS cybersecurity and visibility solutions that empower not operators across energy, utilities, transportation, manufacturing, but also other key sectors such as Financial services, Healthcare or Government to identify and respond to threats faster and more effectively. With our AI-driven platform, deep protocol support, and robust asset visibility, we help security and operations teams achieve cyber-physical resilience without sacrificing performance.

How does GISEC help your company engage with the Middle Eastern cybersecurity market?
The Middle East is a very important and strategic market for us, where we have been investing and growing steadily over the past 7 years. GISEC is one of the most important cybersecurity events in the region, and it provides an ideal platform for us to connect with customers, partners, and government stakeholders. It allows us not only to showcase our latest innovations but also to listen and learn, gaining a deeper understanding of the evolving challenges businesses in the Middle East are facing. The face-to-face engagement at events like GISEC is invaluable and helps us continuously tailor our solutions and messaging to better serve the regional market.

How would you describe the current cybersecurity threat landscape in the Middle East?
The Middle East faces a highly dynamic and sophisticated threat landscape. As critical infrastructure modernises and smart technologies expand, the attack surface is growing rapidly. IoT devices are now embedded across sectors like energy, utilities, transportation, financial services, retail, and healthcare, creating new vulnerabilities beyond traditional IT and OT environments. The increasing interconnectedness between physical systems and digital networks means that a cyberattack can have wide-reaching operational, financial, and even safety consequences. This evolution demands a holistic approach to security, one that addresses IoT risks, bridges IT and OT defenses, and ensures resilience across all industries

What are the most pressing cyber threats facing businesses in the region today?
For organisations operating critical infrastructure, the most pressing threats are those targeting operational technology (OT) environments. We’re seeing a significant rise in malware and ransomware campaigns designed to move laterally from IT to OT systems, disrupting operations and causing costly downtime. Legacy systems with limited security controls make industrial environments especially vulnerable. Supply chain attacks and insider threats are also a growing concern, particularly in sectors like energy, water, and manufacturing, where any disruption can have wide-reaching impact.

Many threats go undetected until operational processes are already affected, making early detection and real-time monitoring critical. At the same time, the rapid growth of IoT devices is expanding the threat landscape far beyond traditional OT environments. In sectors such as financial services, retail, and healthcare, IoT technologies – from smart payment systems to connected medical devices – are introducing new risks. These devices often lack robust security features, creating entry points for attackers seeking to access sensitive data or disrupt essential services. As organisations continue to innovate and digitise, securing the IoT ecosystem is becoming just as critical as protecting core IT and OT infrastructures

How do cultural or regulatory differences impact cybersecurity strategies in the Middle East compared to other regions?
Cybersecurity strategies in the Middle East are deeply influenced by national security priorities and regulatory frameworks. Countries across the GCC are leading with strong cybersecurity mandates, such as Saudi Arabia’s NCA regulations, the UAE’s National Cybersecurity Strategy under the Cyber Security Council, and Qatar’s NCSA initiatives. As the threat landscape becomes increasingly tied to issues of cyber warfare and geopolitical tensions, governments and critical industries are prioritising resilience not just against cybercrime, but against nation-state-level threats that can target national infrastructure, financial stability, and public safety. Furthermore, building trust is paramount. Cultural understanding plays a critical role in how businesses partner, share threat intelligence, and collaborate on security initiatives. It’s about respecting local norms and sensitivities, while also aligning with global best practices to strengthen collective cyber defense across the region

How do your company’s products and services address the specific threats faced by regional businesses?
Nozomi Networks is purpose-built to secure the critical OT and IoT systems that power the Middle East’s most vital industries. As organisations in energy, utilities, transportation, healthcare, financial services, and smart cities modernise, the risk landscape grows—and so does the need for specialised security. Our platform delivers real-time visibility across complex industrial environments, rapidly detects emerging threats and anomalies, and enables swift, decisive response to minimise disruption.

Beyond technology, we help our customers meet evolving regional cybersecurity regulations and national security mandates, ensuring both resilience and compliance. Whether it’s protecting a remote gas pipeline, a national water system, a hospital, a bank or a smart city grid, Nozomi Networks provides the depth, flexibility, and local expertise needed to defend today’s most critical infrastructure

Are you partnering with any local entities or governments to enhance regional cybersecurity resilience?
Yes, we’re actively collaborating with local partners, system integrators, and government-affiliated organisations across the region. These partnerships are key to delivering localised support, enabling knowledge transfer, and aligning with national cybersecurity priorities. Our goal is to be a trusted advisor in building regional cyber resilience, through both technology and training.

What advice would you give to regional businesses looking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture in 2025?
In 2025, cybersecurity resilience will start with one critical principle: visibility. You can’t protect what you can’t see. Regional businesses must gain a clear, real-time understanding of every asset, vulnerability, and access point across their environments, especially as OT and IoT ecosystems grow. Security must be embedded into OT operations from the ground up, not treated as an afterthought.

Move beyond traditional perimeter defenses and invest in continuous, proactive monitoring that can detect and respond to threats before they disrupt your operations. And most importantly, don’t face these challenges alone. Partner with specialists who truly understand the complexity of securing OT and IoT in the Middle East. The threat landscape is evolving fast and your cybersecurity strategy must evolve even faster.

How did the industry and your company fare in 2024, and what were the key highlights?
2024 was a pivotal year for the OT and IoT cybersecurity industry, as cyber threats targeting critical infrastructure became more sophisticated and frequent. The demand for robust, scalable security solutions grew across sectors such as energy, healthcare, and manufacturing. Nozomi Networks achieved significant milestones, including expanding our customer base globally and deepening our presence in high-priority markets like the Middle East.

Our participation in key events like Black Hat MEA underscored our leadership in OT cybersecurity, particularly in the Kuwait and Saudi markets. Collaborations with strategic partners helped us deliver tailored solutions that met the specific needs of local industries. Overall, 2024 was marked by growth, innovation, and strengthened relationships with both customers and partners.

What opportunities do you foresee for 2025, and how do you plan to leverage them?
In 2025, we anticipate significant opportunities driven by the convergence of IT and OT security strategies, as organizations aim to secure hybrid environments while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. In the Middle East, the focus on national infrastructure resilience and smart city initiatives presents a critical market for our solutions. To capitalize on these opportunities, we will deepen relationships with local partners and customers, enhancing our regional presence.

We also plan to expand our AI-driven capabilities, offering predictive insights that enable proactive threat management. Tailoring our solutions to meet sector-specific challenges, particularly in renewable energy, healthcare, and transportation, will be key. Our focus on customer education and advocacy will ensure stakeholders understand the unique risks and mitigation strategies for OT and IoT environments, driving adoption and strengthening our market position.

What major challenges did you encounter in 2024, and how did you address them?
One of the key challenges we faced in 2024 was navigating the rapidly changing regulatory environment for critical infrastructure, especially in regions like the Middle East. To address this, we aligned our solutions with emerging compliance requirements and guided customers on achieving regulatory adherence.

Another challenge was the ongoing lack of awareness around OT security threats, which often lag behind IT security in organizational priorities. Finally, integrating our solutions with complex, hybrid IT-OT systems required a focus on interoperability and collaboration with ecosystem partners. By strengthening our integrations and offering tailored deployment strategies, we ensured that customers could secure their environments effectively despite these challenges.

Which emerging technologies do you believe will be in high demand in 2025, and why?
It’s not surprising that in 2025, we expect to see an increase in AI/ML-enabled cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure. At the same time, you can expect defenders to increase their use of AI-powered cybersecurity solutions to quickly assess risks levels and more effectively and efficiently neutralize threats.

Additionally, threat Intelligence will be critical in 2025. Automation in threat intelligence management will streamline analysis, reducing delays caused by manual processes. More accurate and curated IT and OT-specific threat intelligence feeds will further enhance the value of this information by reducing noise and information overload, allowing security teams to focus on actionable threats. As such, threat intelligence will be increasingly impactful as it becomes more efficient and relevant to specific industrial environments.

What will be your primary focus areas and strategic priorities for 2025?
Our strategic priorities for 2025 include several key areas aimed at strengthening our market leadership. We will continue expanding our presence in high-growth regions like the Middle East by deepening local partnerships and building on the momentum gained in 2024. Enhancing our AI-powered platform will remain a central focus, with innovations aimed at providing predictive insights and real-time threat response for OT and IoT environments.

To support our customers, we will scale education and training programs, ensuring stakeholders are equipped to handle evolving cyber threats. Building stronger ecosystem partnerships to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions is another priority. Additionally, we will explore sector-specific use cases, particularly in energy, healthcare, and transportation, to address unique security challenges and align with industry trends. These efforts will position us to drive continued growth and customer success in 2025.

Are there plans to explore new markets or introduce new products/applications to your portfolio in 2025?
Yes, 2025 will see us exploring new markets, where investments in critical infrastructure and smart city projects are accelerating. These emerging markets present opportunities to deliver OT and IoT security solutions tailored to unique regional challenges. We recently launched a new product called Guardian Air, which builds on our extensive experience in traditional wired OT and IoT systems by expanding into the radio and wireless domain.

The response has been overwhelmingly positive, particularly as the adoption of wireless IoT devices continues to grow in critical sectors. Additionally, we’re seeing significant interest in the specialized use of drones for public security and service applications, where Guardian Air is proving to be a game-changer, and we see this product being a centre point of our 2025 strategy alongside all the developments and new features we’re introducing within our cloud services, AI and 3rd party integrations.

In line with this, Nozomi Networks will also emphasize its key role in helping organizations in the Middle East meet regional compliance standards, including the NCA requirements and OT Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC) framework. The Nozomi Networks platform, complete with advanced monitoring, reporting, and risk management tools, supports organizations in adhering to these regulations, helping ensure that critical infrastructure remains not only secure but also compliant with mandated protocols.

“Black Hat MEA is a premier gathering of cybersecurity professionals and innovators, and our goal is to connect with regional leaders and showcase how our solutions can protect critical networks, from energy to transportation, against the unique cyber threats facing OT and IoT environments here,” said Khalid Aljamed, VP for KSA, Nozomi Networks. “With our expanded portfolio of regionally adapted solutions, we are here to support Middle Eastern organizations as they navigate the complexities of securing critical infrastructure at a time when AI is reshaping cybersecurity. We are also working towards contributing to the growth of the Kingdom’s cybersecurity sector in alignment with Vision 2030, addressing the growing convergence of IT and OT security.”

Nozomi Networks’ end-to-end platform, which now includes the newly launched Nozomi Arc for direct endpoint monitoring, offers comprehensive visibility and proactive threat detection to secure OT/IoT networks against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Alongside Nozomi Networks’ AI-driven anomaly detection capabilities, this solution ensures that organizations have the predictive insights needed to identify and minimize risks early, supporting seamless and reliable operations in complex environments. Nozomi Networks’ Threat Intelligence Feed 3.0 will also be on display, delivering faster and more precise threat data to OT and IoT environments. This enhancement equips security teams with the threat intelligence necessary to make better-informed decisions and respond faster.

Attendees can visit the company at Black Hat MEA with three of its trusted partners – Innovative Solutions (Stand H1.M30), HelpAG (Stand H1.J30), and Oregon Systems (Stand H1.V20) – all of whom will host interactive demos with Nozomi Networks Certified Engineers to highlight real-time solutions for securing OT and IoT systems.

A valuable resource in supporting the UAE’s Cyber Security Strategy to accelerate digital transformation and smarty city initiatives, Vantage delivers the unmatched security and visibility expected from Nozomi Networks, with the addition of unlimited scalability, powered by SaaS. It makes it possible to protect any number of OT, IoT, IT, edge and cloud assets, located anywhere, with a single platform.

“We are very excited to be able to better serve our customers in UAE with this new Vantage region,” said Bachir Moussa, Nozomi’s Regional Vice President for MEA. “Nozomi Networks has always been committed to strengthening critical infrastructure cybersecurity in the Middle East and this new Vantage region is a testament to that commitment. Now our customers can not only reap the benefits of a cloud-based solution, but they will also be able to leverage Nozomi’s latest cybersecurity defenses for the best possible protection.”

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Can you share a little bit about what it is that you do and what a typical day for you is like?
For the past two and a half years, I have been driving Nozomi Networks’ EMEA marketing strategy and execution. Recently, I moved to a Global Partner Marketing Director role where I now develop and promote strategies to enhance our overall go-to-market engine via partners worldwide.

A typical day starts with a coffee or two, and between an email and another, I build and execute plans with our partners to enhance our go-to-market engine. If I had to assign a word to my job, I think “alignment” would be the first one to come to my mind: aligning internal stakeholders, partners, and vendors toward the same goal.

On the way, I don’t forget to have some good fun with the people around me.

Did you always know that working in the industry you represent was what you wanted to do? How did you decide on it?
I wanted to be so many things, including a vet, but I never dreamt of a career in marketing – I remember disliking the marketing modules in college. I found them very theoretical at the time and B2B marketing was still overlooked.

I then happened to move to the UK for personal reasons, without a job and no knowledge of English. But I managed to secure a small internship in Xenomorph, a data management solution for financial companies. I started working on their CRM, helping with cleaning data, when the CMO spotted my dedication and willingness to help (I believe) and took me under his wing. He started involving me in their marketing, PR, and sales and this is how I started my career. I am very grateful to Xenomorph’s founders for giving me that opportunity.

What first got you interested in the industry you work in?
I moved to Paris, where I was called for an interview by Palo Alto Networks. I had no knowledge of the security space and went to the interview thinking it was “just a company” I had never heard of. I fell in love with the passion of the hiring manager, Karen Beaune. We connected immediately and then realized what was presented in front of me was a huge opportunity for a leading cybersecurity company.

While in college I couldn’t connect what marketing was for. Working in cybersecurity, I started seeing the mission behind my job, the importance of protecting critical infrastructures, hospitals, smart cities, manufacturing, and more. It has a real impact on our lives and I started feeling part of a bigger picture.

It is also nice to see how my kids are interested in what I do and intrigued by this world that they started facing way earlier than I did.

Do you have a role model?
That would certainly be Karen Beaune, my hiring manager at Palo Alto Networks.

What obstacles did you have to overcome?
I consider myself lucky as I had the chance to be surrounded by great professionals and supportive managers. I would say organization can prove tricky; the workload is often high in this industry. We are confronted with many initiatives, several projects at the same time, long hours sometimes, and trips. Marketing is interconnected with sales, so the pressure on targets is perceived and shared. Planning helps with not feeling overwhelmed.

What advice would you give to a woman considering a career in the industry you represent? What do you wish you had known?
Join the space and stay in it! It’s amazing how this industry is continuously innovating and flourishing. Every day is different and the opportunities in the market keep growing. Don’t be shy, ask to be involved in projects out of your scope, it’s a learning opportunity. Had I known earlier what I would have done in my life, I would have spent more time deep diving into the technology aspect.

What do you do to unwind after work?
My friends would say “a good glass of Prosecco”, but on top of that: I am a big fan of Pilates and Gyrotonic, I like travelling with my family, taking the dogs out, and a good book on the couch.

Tell us about the cybersecurity trends for 2023.
In 2023, we can expect:

• Hybrid threat tactics – the lines that once categorized diverse types of threat actors have blurred, which could significantly change the threat actor landscape. For example, November’s Continental ransomware attack was launched by hacktivists who used nation-state tactics to cause physical disruption to railroads. Meanwhile, nation-state threat actors have been leveraging cyber-criminal tactics, such as ransomware, to cause disruption in critical environments. It will become increasingly difficult to categorize threat groups based on TTPs and motives, which have aided in attribution efforts in the past.
• Quantum cybersecurity threats – as threat actors use the “store now, decrypt later” (SNDL) technique in preparation for quantum decryption, governments are taking steps to defend against this future threat. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its post-quantum cryptography initiative on July 6, 2022, to prepare and safeguard critical infrastructure companies during this transition. As CISA rolls out this guidance, more companies will shift their focus to safeguarding their data now to reduce the risks of quantum decryption later.
• The medical device exploits – many medical devices are susceptible to cyberattacks due to the fact that the legacy systems they are using are no longer being manufactured and/or the software no longer supported. Threat actors use scanners and other types of tools to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in these devices and perform manipulative tactics or even launch cyberattacks. Apart from using scanners to exploit vulnerabilities, threat actors can access medical systems used to aggregate device data for broader analysis and monitoring. This manipulation could lead to malfunctions, misreadings, or even overdoses in the automatic release of medication.
• Cyber insurance inflection point – while cyber insurance is an important part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, cybercriminals are conducting reconnaissance on cyber insurance policies and tailoring their ransom requests to match the amount of a cyber insurance payout. This could either cause premiums to significantly increase, or even dry out cyber insurance resources, making it more difficult to file serious claims and receive payouts. Cyber insurance is not a cure for cyberattacks; in fact, it could motivate cybercriminals. Companies should invest in cyber prevention, protection, and remediation as a first line of defense.

What is the theme of your participation at GISEC 2023?
We will demonstrate how our extensive suite of leading OT and IoT security solutions can be leveraged to protect critical infrastructure, industrial networks, and government organizations from cyber threats, all while maximizing operational resilience.

Which products and solutions will you be showcasing at GISEC 2023?
We will be showcasing our entire suite of IT, OT, and IoT solutions, but this year, we are extremely excited to introduce the newest member of our product portfolio, Nozomi Arc, to our GISEC lineup. Nozomi Arc is our first endpoint security sensor for OT that complements Guardian and Vantage deployments with more visibility into a host’s attack surfaces and anomalies, to give a more detailed view of your complete OT/ICS environment. It improves operational resiliency by significantly extending visibility across endpoint attack surfaces, dramatically reducing security threats, and speeding deployments across all assets and sites.

How are you equipped to help companies overcome digital security and privacy challenges?
Often, cybersecurity is an afterthought as traditional cybersecurity solutions can’t keep pace with the growing number of smart devices and vast volumes of sensitive data that are a part of or connected to critical infrastructure. ​As an example, many of the IoT and OT devices in municipal infrastructure lack even basic cybersecurity features and are essentially not visible to traditional IT cybersecurity programs.

Furthermore, growing compliance requirements and competing compliance frameworks increase pressure to achieve sound technology governance.​ Failing to protect these environments can result in identity theft, consumer data breach, delay or failure of critical services such as power or transportation, costly ransomware attacks, and safety risks such as compromised water supplies. Protecting customer data and providing reliable city services is paramount in the face of the cyber threats smart cities must confront.​

These types of environments need help in various phases of the security lifecycle across all their services and deployments. Bringing these together in a comprehensive platform can deliver new levels of efficiency and automation to cybersecurity teams. Nozomi Networks breakdown the incident lifecycle into three phases that align with various admin tasks and security processes: Anticipate, Diagnose, and Respond.

The first phase of cybersecurity maturity is understanding what is on the network and anticipating where risks may arise, such as known vulnerabilities in unpatched systems and devices. Nozomi Networks provides visibility to all your endpoints with deep data collection that can expose vulnerabilities and highlight where to focus risk management efforts before the attack. Visualizing device connections and traffic patterns can also facilitate incident response and compliance efforts.

Nozomi Networks applies its artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) engine to deliver industry-leading insights and analytics. Our threat intelligence data stays up to date with signatures and indicators of compromise (IOC) from the latest attacks and ransomware trends.

When it’s time to respond to a security breach or a process control issue, you need actionable intelligence to address the problem with the minimum cost and impact on your operations. Nozomi Networks gives you all the information and insight right at your fingertips to remediate issues, dive into further research, and guide or coordinate an appropriate response.

The Nozomi platform aggregates an enormous amount of data from devices and network traffic across the organization with our elastic cloud offering, Vantage. Making this data available, useful, and accessible from a number of different angles is the power of the platform’s user interface design, alert dashboards, query capabilities, and forensic tools.

Is there a skills gap in the cybersecurity industry? What needs to be done in order to bridge that gap?
Yes, there is a skills gap and proper awareness (and consequently training) is necessary to shrink that gap. Cybersecurity isn’t just limited to professionals already in tech and IT security roles – it is important to break those assumptions around the industry and start educating people. Schoolchildren should know that there is a cybersecurity industry waiting for them when they graduate and the IT curriculum should include cybersecurity education from the very beginning.

Organizations can invest in training courses to upskill and reskill their employees. Governments can hold interactive cybersecurity campaigns for the general population. There are different ways to discover, nurture, and encourage hidden cybersecurity talent in individuals – it is all about providing opportunities to find them.

“Visibility is essential for defending facilities against today’s challenging cyber environment. Security teams can’t wait for drawn-out CapEx evaluations to gain the insight they need to defend their operations,” said Sid Snitkin, ARC Advisory Group Vice President of Cybersecurity Advisory Services. “ARC applauds Nozomi Networks for offering OnePass as a means to simplify investment decisions and accelerate the protection of critical infrastructure.”

“The ‘as a services model’ is the platform consumption model of the future for many industries, including OT,” said Nozomi Networks Co-founder and CPO Andrea Carcano. “By combining the industry’s first SaaS-based OT and IoT security solution with the industry’s first HWaaS offering, OnePass gives customers a flexible option to license, deploy and scale Nozomi Networks solutions over time.”

• OnePass helps efficiently accelerate digital transformation projects and fast-tracks security service implementations. It provides scalability and speeds time to value for delivering OT/IoT security at scale.
• OnePass gives you the flexibility to shift costs from OT/IoT capital expenditure (CapEx) investment to a more-consistent pay-as-you-go operating expenditure (OPEX) funding mechanism. This normalizes OT/IoT security spending over time, making budgeting more predictable while avoiding the accrual of technical debt.
• OnePass’s full-service delivery model reduces the demand on organizations to develop or hire OT-centric cybersecurity personnel before deploying a security solution. This shift away from internal skill sets affords decision-makers the opportunity to rethink workforce plans and create paths for upskilling staff wherever feasible.

“OnePass takes the planning and the risk out of the hardware design and eliminates the need to worry about hardware maintenance, asset management, and replacement expenses. At the time of quote, customers receive a hardware allocation to cover the scale and complexity of their environment, which can later be used to order specific hardware appliances as deployment requirements are better understood,” the company claimed.

“A key component of OnePass is a new Hardware as a Service delivery model for Guardian appliances that are deployed on-premises. It complements Vantage, Nozomi Networks’ existing Software as a Service model for cloud-based monitoring and control of OT and IoT security. Both can be bundled with optional subscriptions for asset and threat intelligence services,” the company added. “Nozomi OnePass is an optional purchasing model for current and new Nozomi Networks customers. It is available now from Nozomi Networks and our extensive global network of channel partners.”

Nozomi Networks will highlight its rich portfolio of leading security solutions and the benefits they offer to critical infrastructure owners/operators, as the threat landscape evolves and becomes more challenging. Leveraging its vast knowledge of OT environments (oil & gas, electricity distribution, etc), Nozomi Networks is well placed to advise and develop protection around IoT and IT environments, particularly as the convergence of OT, IoT and IT becomes more commonplace within a growing array of critical infrastructure.

Smart cities, smart grids, smart manufacturing, and smart healthcare are all verticals that leverage IoT platforms and IT integration to not only reduce costs but respond faster and more efficiently to market and user demands. These verticals, and several others, are growing at a rapid pace in the Kingdom, as the country strives to diversify its economy away from fossil fuels in line with the Saudi Vision 2030 strategic framework. Concurrently, the threat landscape is evolving at a breakneck pace, which means securing all manners of digital environments is absolutely critical.

Nozomi Networks’ Osamah Al-Fardan, Regional Sales Engineer, Saudi Arabia, and Usamah Al Ridwan, Regional Sales Director, Saudi Arabia will present a technical workshop at 10am on Day 2 of the event (7 September) on “ICS Cybersecurity between Regulation & Reality”. Nozomi Networks’ participation is in support of the Kingdom’s ambitions to embrace technology and digital transformation, as part of larger efforts to diversify its economy in line with the Saudi Vision 2030 strategic framework.

“Today, within any environment, whether it’s an airport, construction site, factory, hospital, shopping mall, smart home, etc, there are connected devices as part of converged OT, IoT, or IT platforms that could be compromised and turned into a threat against that environment or others. More often than not, even if you are aware of the devices you can see, there may be countless others that you don’t, which can be compromised by threat actors. We are here to give owners and operators the benefit of our experience with what they see and what they don’t, to ensure they have the best protection going forward,” said Usamah Al Ridwan, Regional Sales Director, Saudi Arabia, Nozomi Networks.

In support of the diversification drive, in recent years Saudi authorities have sought to create a suitable ecosystem to attract and stimulate investment in the Kingdom, and have stepped up their focus on cybersecurity. In October 2017, the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) was launched; it works closely with public and private entities to improve the cybersecurity posture of the country in order to safeguard its key interests, national security, critical infrastructure, high-priority sectors, and government services in alignment with Vision 2030.

Earlier in 2022, the NCA urged cybersecurity providers to register their information before August 1 in an effort to regulate the sector and improve efficiency and the quality of service offered to those in need of cybersecurity solutions. In the past, the authority has also urged and mandated that businesses, developers, and operators in the Kingdom take steps to mitigate risk, enhance resilience, and develop human capital and local industry capabilities.

During the two-day conference, senior executives and cybersecurity experts from Nozomi Networks will be on hand to interact with visitors and have strategic discussions on critical infrastructure cybersecurity, IT, OT, and IoT, and how organisations can develop and adapt their security frameworks to address any and all threats.

• The globally focused MSSP Elite Partner program has now grown to 10 members including new members ABS Consulting Inc., Intelligent Buildings, and Telefonica Tech.
• Regionally focused MSSP Focus Partners include CyberCX, Deloitte, Gemina, NRI Secure Technologies, 2TS, and TI Safe

“MSSPs are filling a critical role as CISOs look for cost-effective ways to strengthen their security postures across IT and OT while juggling resource limitations and skills gaps,” said Chet Namboodri, Nozomi Networks Senior Vice President of Business Development and Alliances. “Nozomi Networks’ MSSP Program allows us to work with our partners to address a growing requirement to include advanced OT and IoT security solutions and maximize value for our mutual customers.”

Launched in August 2021, Nozomi Networks MSSP Partner Program is the industry’s first complete program for OT and IoT-managed security services. The program fully equips industry-leading MSSPs with Nozomi Networks’ award-winning OT and IoT cybersecurity solutions, expertise, and selling resources. The program enables MSSPs to generate additional revenue through new lines of business while giving customers the flexibility and maximum value they need when it comes to strengthening their OT and IoT security postures while balancing resource requirements. Today a strong bench of MSSP Elite and MSSP Focus partners are helping their customers strengthen their OT and IoT security and resilience, with solutions from Nozomi Networks.

Nozomi Networks’ MSSP Program goes beyond basic OT and IoT security integrations to support partners with the resources they need to effectively integrate, sell and support Nozomi Networks’ solutions as part of a full managed services offering for the customer.

• Specialized training and certifications ensure partners are fully qualified to support customers with deep network visibility, advanced monitoring, and actionable intelligence for the best possible incident response.
• Partners have access to an MSSP framework to further develop their industrial security expertise, grow their MSSP practice, expand their portfolio of services, and increase customer satisfaction.
• Partners can incorporate Nozomi Networks’ full suite of cloud-based and on-premises solutions and manage them on behalf of their customers. Many of Nozomi Networks MSSP partners own Vantage licenses to provide private label services through Vantage’s multi-tenant and MSSP-oriented licensing capabilities.