Building a secure digital future for Saudi Arabia
A regional framework for advancing cybersecurity and driving the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 digital transformation
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Innovations in cybersecurity are essential for countries like Saudi Arabia that are racing to a digital future. In a new paper published in Communications of the ACM, KAUST cybersecurity professors Roberto Di Pietro and Marc Dacier join four other experts to provide a multidisciplinary framework for how the Kingdom and other countries in the region can continue their digitization while becoming the global model for cybersecurity.
The paper, Cybersecurity in the Arab World: Technological and Sociopolitical Dimensions, explains the cybersecurity strategies that will support the Kingdom to achieve its digitization objectives laid out in Vision 2030.
Ultimately, the best cybersecurity, the paper concludes, is a multi-pronged approach that includes the adoption of global best practices; tailoring interventions to regional cultural and linguistic contexts; and investment in capacity building, from national data centers to a skilled workforce, something that KAUST has dedicated itself through several initiatives.
“By combining deep scientific and industrial expertise with educational excellence, KAUST is poised to play a key role in advising and contributing to national cybersecurity policy in cooperation with the [Saudi] National Cybersecurity Authority,” said Di Pietro.
Read the full feature on KAUST News.
