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  • Saudi Arabia making ‘leaps’ to become leader in cybersecurity: Cisco official

    Saudi Arabia is making “leaps” across several global indices to position itself as a frontrunner in technology and cybersecurity on the global and regional level, a top Cisco official said. Speaking to Arab News in an interview on the sidelines of the Black Hat MEA 2023, Salman Faqeeh, the managing director of Cisco Saudi Arabia, highlighted that the Kingdom is rapidly progressing, particularly in the telecommunication technology, information security, and cybersecurity sectors. “We’ve all witnessed and seen several global indices highlighting how Saudi Arabia is making leaps when it comes to advancements and its position at a global and at a regional level,” Faqeeh said.

  • Netanyahu says Israel will have an ‘overall security’ role in Gaza indefinitely

    Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain control there one month into a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled swaths of the territory. In an interview with ABC News that aired late Monday, Netanyahu expressed openness to “little pauses” in the fighting to facilitate delivery of aid to Gaza or the release of some of the more than 240 hostages seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the war.

  • Saudi Aramco VC Fund Backs AI-Powered Cybersecurity Startup

    Saudi Aramco’s venture capital arm has invested in SpiderSilk, a United Arab Emirates-based startup that offers AI-powered cybersecurity services. Aramco’s $500 million venture fund, Wa’ed Ventures, took the lead in a $9 million round that included Riyadh-based Saudi Technology Ventures and Dubai’s Global Ventures. The new capital is intended to support SpiderSilk’s technology offerings in Saudi Arabia, the company said in a statement. SpiderSilk has worked with Lenovo Group Ltd., Panasonic Holdings Corp. and parts of Samsung Group, according to its website.

  • Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud

    He confirmed President Biden’s commitment to support the defense of U.S. partners against threats from state and non-state actors, including those backed by Iran.  On Yemen, Mr. Sullivan welcomed the significant de-escalation of the conflict over the past year and a half and endorsed Saudi-led efforts to bring the war to a close altogether.

  • Saudi foreign minister in New York for UN Security Council meeting on Middle East situation

    Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, the Saudi minister of foreign affairs, arrived in New York City on Tuesday to participate in a high-level meeting at the UN Security Council headquarters. The meeting will focus on the evolving situation in the Middle East, with particular emphasis on the issue of Palestine. Prince Faisal’s participation comes at the invitation of Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira, who currently presides over the Security Council.

  • Analysis: In striking Israel, Hamas also took aim at Middle East security realignment

    Osama Hamdan, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon, told Reuters that Saturday's operation should make Arab states realise that accepting Israeli security demands would not bring peace. "For those who want stability and peace in the region, the starting point must be to end the Israeli occupation," he said. "Some (Arab states) unfortunately started imagining that Israel could be the gateway for America to defend their security."

  • Starlink in crosshairs as Iranian security agents hunt down terminals, users

    Iranian state media say a plot by a foreign intelligence service to smuggle Starlink gear to the restive Sistan-Baluchestan Province has been foiled. This comes just weeks after US-based “United Against Nuclear Iran” (UANI) announced an initiative to purchase and deliver Starlink terminals to help Iranians bypass government restrictions.

  • Biden’s Gulf allies want an ‘ironclad’ security pact with the US. Here’s what it might look like

    Anwar Gargash, the UAE president’s diplomatic adviser, last month described the US’ involvement in the Middle East as “a positive thing,” but stressed the importance of cementing that involvement so “that there are no vacuums” – which, he warned, would only “give opportunities for other players to move into.” It is important to move from an “informal” security arrangement “to something that’s formal,” he said at a conference in New York, calling for a new, “ironclad” security arrangement with the US.

  • Bahrain Sets the Pace for Enhanced Gulf Security Cooperation With the United States

    The Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement, signed September 13 by Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa and Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department, formalizes and tightens security cooperation between Bahrain and the United States. While C-SIPA carefully does not include any NATO Article 5-type mutual defense guarantees, it approaches the water’s edge of such commitments, reinforced by senior administration officials making clear on background that the pact is a legally binding agreement that will be notified to Congress. Such notification is a formal step that nonetheless does not require ratification to enter into force, since the agreement “does not cross the threshold of a treaty.”

  • IDF said to study security implications of possible Saudi normalization deal

    Findings to be presented to defense minister and cabinet reportedly to include cooperation possibilities along with dangers and ramifications of Saudi nuclear program