“Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states of the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cyber security regulations. It took a wake up call: wave after wave of deep, egregious breaches of their industrial infrastructure, especially oil refineries and power plants.”
-Byron V. Acohido, Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist, reports on cyber security steps in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia’s Cyber Security Framework implemented in 2017 mandating the requirement to containerize data in all computing formats. [Security Boulevard]
