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  • Cyber Security
    The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

    According to Jon Olstik from Enterprise Strategy Group, in 2016 “46% of organizations now claim that they have a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills representing an 18% year-over-year increase.” This means that cybersecurity teams are often understaffed, which makes it even more difficult for them to properly protect their employer’s networks.

  • IS Shooting
    Retired Saudi security official killed as IS claims shooting

    Saudi police say a retired security official has been shot and killed in the kingdom's south as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a shooting there.

  • Saudi-China
    Saudi Arabia and China: The Security Dimension

    After 1949, and chiefly for revolutionary reasons, successive Chinese governments opted to stand by radical Arab regimes. Preference was given to Libya, Iraq, Egypt, and especially to the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY).

  • Syria
    Opinion: World peace versus Saudi national security

    In the event of victory for Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen, Yemeni politicians - including the Houthis, should they wish - would return to dialogue to build a country that is not governed by a dictator or a single political or sectarian faction. However, a Russian-Iranian victory in Syria will maintain an oppressive sectarian regime that caused the ongoing revolution, and will threaten global security.

  • NSA
    National Security Agency plans major reorganization

    The National Security Agency, the largest electronic spy agency in the world, is undertaking a major reorganization, merging its offensive and defensive organizations in the hope of making them more adept at facing the digital threats of the 21st century, according to current and former officials.

  • Iraq
    Abduction of Americans in Iraq raises fears about security

    The abduction of three Americans from a Baghdad apartment over the weekend is the latest in a series of brazen high-profile kidnappings undermining confidence in the Iraqi government's ability to control state-sanctioned Shiite militias that have grown in strength as Iraqi security forces battle the Islamic State group.

  • Iran
    Iran sacks senior security official over Saudi embassy attack

    Iran has sacked a senior security official over his failure to stop the ransacking of Saudi Arabia's embassy, which led the Sunni-ruled kingdom to sever diplomatic relations.

  • Iran and the Gulf
    Iran, Gulf Security, and U.S. Policy

    The JCPOA has the potential to improve U.S.-Iran relations, but relations with Iran on regional issues have worsened in some respects since the agreement was finalized.

  • Regional Security
    Commentary: Saudi Arabia’s mounting security challenges

    Saudi Arabia faces an increasingly complex web of security challenges at a time when its economy is depressed. With oil prices unlikely to rise in the next couple of years, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud will have to balance carefully his foreign policy priorities.

  • Turkey
    Turkish military offensive kills 110 Kurdish militants in six days: security sources

    Armed clashes persisted on Sunday across Turkey's southeast, where an operation by Turkish forces intensified on the sixth day of a campaign that security sources said had resulted in the death of 110 Kurdish militants.