With an unwavering commitment to realizing Vision 2030, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is actively embedding best-in-class technology solutions and tools across enterprises and industries. Transitioning towards a digitally enabled nation presents a plethora of threats to cyberspace — cumulatively 110 million threats being detected in 2022. [1] Saudi Arabia is committed to cybersecurity, garnering second rank globally in commitment to cybersecurity. 73% of Saudi Arabia’s organizations reported cyber threats have emerged as a top concern in KSA. [2] Strikingly, organizations have expressed grief and concerns about cloud-related threats (70%) and attacks on connected devices (67%). In a bid to combat these vulnerabilities, 73% of organizations are prioritizing digital and technology-related risks. [2] To this end, Saudi Arabia is making significant efforts to advance the cybersecurity landscape by introducing numerous cybersecurity programs, training, and education resources.
Saudi Arabia's Strategic Efforts to Enhance Cybersecurity: [2]
In Saudi Arabia, 62% prioritize optimizing current technology and investments, followed by 54% focusing on new business initiatives, and 46% addressing remediation after cyber breaches.
Despite Saudi Arabia's investments in digital tools, labs, academies, and technologies to upskill its workforce, there is a concern about the immediate cyber talent shortage. According to our 2024 Global Digital Trust Report, 70% of Saudi respondents prioritize identifying the right candidates, while 60% focus on rapidly upskilling the current workforce to meet organizational demands.
In Saudi Arabia, 40% prioritize harmonized cyber and data protection laws (vs. 36% globally). An equal number believe in shifting liability for cyber failures to companies like device makers and software firms. Additionally, 37% demand regulatory requirements for operational resilience.
A Cybersecurity Imperative for KSA’s Modern Enterprises
As cyberattacks are becoming more pervasive, faster, and ingenious, the need for collaboration as an extension of an organization’s team is becoming more apparent. This is critical to ensure holistic security, maximize productivity, and safeguard current investments.
An incessant rise in cyberattack volumes can be attributed to remote working means businesses. Evidently, 2.47 breaches on average have been reported per organization. 94% mentioned suffering from a material breach, and 84% stated attacks spiraled due to remote working. [3] Erratic employees’ behavior is crafting blind spots and dark corners in the cybersec landscape. What's more, CISOs proclaim that perceiving third-party apps has been serving as an open end for organizations’ exposure to data breaches. [3] A significant portion of CISOs put forth the need for enhanced visibility over data and apps to avert attacks. It is critical to embed contextual security to stay on the edge of data security through the application lifecycle. Skills shortage is propelling organizations (42%) to outsource cybersecurity functions. [4] Along these lines, organizations can benefit from Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, offering security operations center (SOC) functions remotely, [5] to safeguard digital assets and sustain stakeholders’ trust. Leveraging proactive threat disruption and containment techniques, MDR promotes swift threat detection, analysis, investigation, and response. Combining a range of cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies, managed services offer 360-degree threat hunting and incident management, improving business productivity while minimizing threats.
SAMI-AEC Managed Detection and Response
SAMI-AEC Managed Detection and Response (MDR) has emerged as a regional leader, enabling organizations across Saudi Arabia to curtail cyber risks. As a vendor-agnostic threat solution, SAMI-AEC MDR seamlessly manages alerts, provides better visibility into threats, and optimizes security programs. With comprehensive assessments, penetration testing, and evaluation of cloud infrastructure, SAMI-AEC fortifies organization’s data in the cloud environment; preventing breaches, leakage, and deletion. It empowers organizations across the Kingdom with extensive SeOps teams offering round-the-clock threat monitoring for malicious activities. Ensuring the deployment of cutting-edge tools, enabling organizations to focus on strategic operations. Consequently, organizations can effortlessly navigate the threats looming on the cyberspace, minimizing costs, optimizing inefficiencies, and addressing issues including alert fatigue and employee burnout.
Unleashing Proactive Threat Detection and Mitigation for KSA Organizations
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SAMI-AEC's MDR empowers organizations across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to protect and enhance existing cybersecurity investments, practice proactive security to reinforce defenses, and continuously improve security operations. Combining a range of state-of-the-art technologies and human strength, SAMI-AEC offers continuous monitoring coupled with threat detection, response, and remediation. This ensures a well-guarded digital environment for Saudi Arabia’s organizations, allowing them to rapidly detect and respond to cyber threats without needing additional internal resources.
In an era where threats evolve faster than traditional security measures can keep up, protection is no longer defined by what is visible, but by the ability to detect what remains hidden. The most critical risks are often those that pass unnoticed, concealed beneath the surface and beyond the limits of the human eye. This reality places entry points at the center of modern security strategy, as they represent the first and most decisive line of defense in preventing threats from crossing into secured environments.
Across embassies, government facilities, airports, defense installations, and high-density commercial hubs, the integrity of perimeter security ultimately converges at a single checkpoint: the entry gate. It is here that vigilance must be absolute, processes must be seamless, and technology must operate without compromise. MASSEH emerges as a direct response to these demands—an advanced under-vehicle surveillance system engineered and manufactured in Saudi Arabia by SAMI-AEC, designed to identify concealed threats with unmatched precision, speed, and operational reliability.
MASSEH redefines checkpoint operations by consolidating all essential inspection functions into a unified, intelligent ecosystem. At its core lies an industrial-grade scanning platform, integrated with high-resolution machine vision technology, automated license plate recognition, and real-time data processing capabilities. This seamless integration eliminates fragmentation in inspection workflows, ensuring that every vehicle is thoroughly scanned, every license plate is accurately recorded, and every irregularity is immediately detected. The result is a streamlined security process that minimizes human error, removes reliance on manual inspection, and significantly enhances response times all while maintaining smooth and uninterrupted traffic flow.
In modern security operations, visibility is not merely a feature it is the mission itself. MASSEH is engineered to deliver continuous, uncompromised visibility through a robust scanning platform rated at IP68 and IK10, ensuring resilience against harsh environmental conditions, including dust, water, and physical impact. The system is equipped with an advanced area machine-vision camera paired with a specialized fisheye lens, enabling comprehensive, high-definition imaging of the vehicle undercarriage. This is further complemented by a Full HD license plate recognition camera, providing precise identification and seamless data linkage for every scanned vehicle.
Beyond image capture, MASSEH transforms raw visual data into actionable intelligence. Powered by the SecurOS™ Eco-System, the platform analyzes inspection data in real time, detecting anomalies and presenting insights through an intuitive operator interface. This capability empowers security personnel to make informed, immediate decisions at the most critical moments—when response windows are narrow and the cost of delay is high. The system shifts security operations from reactive monitoring to proactive threat detection, elevating overall situational awareness.
Equally important is MASSEH’s focus on operational practicality. The system features a compact, lightweight design, with the scanning platform weighing no more than 25 kilograms. This enables ease of use across a wide range of deployment environments, whether permanent or temporary, without the need for complex infrastructure. Its modular architecture supports seamless integration with existing security systems, including surveillance cameras, access control solutions, and automated barriers, creating a cohesive and scalable checkpoint ecosystem.
MASSEH is more than a technological solution, it is a strategic advancement in security innovation. It reflects SAMI-AEC’s commitment to localizing advanced technologies, strengthening national capabilities, and supporting Saudi Vision 2030. By combining intelligent design, local expertise, and cutting-edge technology, MASSEH sets a new standard for securing entry points ensuring that even what cannot be seen does not go undetected.
What if security could move beyond conventional patrols, seeing farther, reacting faster, and covering more ground through one intelligent, fully integrated system?
From crowded operational environments to isolated locations with limited accessibility, national readiness depends on uninterrupted situational awareness, real-time coordination, and the ability to make informed decisions at exactly the right moment. As operational challenges continue to evolve in complexity, security organizations require solutions that deliver comprehensive visibility, seamless coordination, and reliable control across every stage of the mission.
HEMA is SAMI-AEC’s answer: an advanced Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) solution designed, developed, and manufactured locally to extend security coverage across vast operational environments with speed, precision, and complete control. Built to overcome the limitations of conventional surveillance systems, HEMA empowers operators with a unified platform capable of supporting demanding missions across diverse terrains and complex operational scenarios while maintaining exceptional reliability and operational efficiency.
HEMA unifies three core components into a single command-and-control ecosystem, allowing all mission assets to operate as one synchronized solution. At its core is a drone engineered to execute missions seamlessly across difficult terrain and complex airspace, enabling rapid deployment and access to locations that are difficult or impossible to reach using traditional methods. Complementing the aerial platform is a high-definition camera enhanced by the company's proprietary video analytics software, delivering real-time intelligence, advanced scene analysis, and actionable operational insights throughout every mission. These capabilities are integrated with a locally developed Command and Control (C2) system, built by Saudi engineers, providing operators with a centralized interface for planning, monitoring, coordinating, and managing operations with greater efficiency and confidence.
The result is an integrated operational environment that delivers wider area coverage, greater operational reach, faster access to remote locations, and significantly higher-quality intelligence. By eliminating fragmented systems and disconnected tools, HEMA streamlines decision-making, enhances situational awareness, and enables security teams to respond more effectively to dynamic operational conditions while maintaining full command over every mission.
In modern defense and security operations, connectivity is no longer an added capability—it is the foundation of mission success. HEMA maintains persistent communication across every operational node through resilient 4G/5G networks, Iridium satellite communications, and VSAT connectivity, ensuring continuous data exchange even in remote or infrastructure-limited environments. This robust communications architecture enables real-time coordination for day, night, and thermal surveillance, incident response, border monitoring, critical infrastructure protection, and search-and-rescue missions, ensuring uninterrupted operational awareness whenever and wherever it is needed.
With rapid deployment capabilities and vertical-launch UAV functionality, airborne surveillance can be activated within moments, providing immediate aerial coverage during time-critical situations where every second matters. This operational agility allows security teams to respond faster, extend their field of view instantly, and maintain persistent oversight throughout the mission lifecycle.
HEMA also enhances operational efficiency by reducing dependence on conventional patrol models, allowing organizations to optimize available resources while maintaining high levels of operational readiness. By minimizing operational costs, reducing logistical demands, lowering vehicle utilization and maintenance requirements, and enabling the simultaneous monitoring of multiple incidents across different locations, the system delivers greater mission effectiveness without requiring proportional increases in personnel or operational assets. This translates into smarter resource allocation, broader coverage, and improved mission sustainability.
Proudly designed, developed, and engineered by Saudi talent, HEMA reflects SAMI-AEC's commitment to advancing defense localization and strengthening national technological capabilities. The solution embodies the company's vision of delivering world-class defense technologies while contributing to the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030 by fostering local innovation, developing national expertise, and supporting the growth of a sustainable and globally competitive Saudi defense industry.
