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00:00 With the development of our digital and expansion it to most of the fields in Saudi Arabia,
00:05 interest in cyber security has increased to strengthen networks and protect information security.
00:11 The size of the cyber security market in the Kingdom has reached 5 billion Riyals and has grown by 14% annually.
00:20 Companies working in cybersecurity and information are looking to offer their services in various activities.
00:27 The most prominent is the Black Hat cyber security event, which was held recently in Riyadh.
00:33 We find that many companies around the world and the region are looking to the Saudi market.
00:39 They are sincere in their approach because of the size of the market and the leadership of Saudi Arabia.
00:46 We find many investments in solving the security of information on the cloud.
00:53 We announced last June that we are confirming our steps to create a database center
01:03 that offers all the solutions of Cisco, which is specialized in information security, from within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
01:09 These solutions are available and compatible with all the solutions that are on the cloud.
01:15 The specializations of cybersecurity companies are diversified, and they offer a wide range of solutions, not only in the networks.
01:24 The most prominent is the protection of information in cloud computing,
01:30 with the expansion of the private sector and government services in cloud services,
01:35 as well as the adoption of artificial intelligence to protect data.
01:41 The amazing development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
01:45 and the digitalization that is happening at the level of the government, companies, institutions and the country in general,
01:51 means that the country has a large digital addition,
01:54 which in itself brings opportunities and even brings out some of the dangers of cybersecurity.
02:01 For this reason, the government has even initiated the establishment of institutions such as the Cybersecurity Institute and others
02:07 to lead the country and motivate government and private institutions to adopt and develop their cyber capabilities.
02:17 Artificial intelligence gives you the ability to recognize these threats and easily contain them.
02:24 The problem is that the infiltrators and groups of infiltration and attack also have access to artificial intelligence.
02:35 Artificial intelligence can also be used to develop malicious software and to develop new attacks.
02:44 Saudi Arabia was ranked second in the world in the Cybersecurity Index for 2022,
02:52 according to a report by the International Competitiveness Center of the International Institute for Administrative Development in Switzerland.
03:00 While the use of the Internet has been rampant in the lives of individuals, companies and government agencies in Saudi Arabia,
03:06 cybersecurity has become a big market.
03:09 Many local companies own it, while all of them are foreign companies.
03:16 Atallah Al-Shamir, CNBC Arabia, Riyadh