Cyber Security

Cyber Security Consulting and Assessment

Smart city’s Cyber Security division offers cutting-edge cyber security consulting services aimed at bolstering your organization's cyber resilience from the core.

Our consulting services provide in-depth insights into your security management, offering assessments of your critical infrastructures, sensitive data, and applications. Collaborating with you, we define and implement a tailored strategy, target operating model, and Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) structure. Our goal is to ensure that your security design and operations align with your strategic objectives and business continuity plans. Incorporating a cyber security strategy into your digital transformation journey allows you to proactively address compliance requirements and realize cost efficiencies. Our approach is underpinned by a robust framework, ensuring consistency in our delivery.

With a comprehensive range of consulting and managed security services, smart city’s Cyber Security Services is at the forefront of providing assessments and security strategies to some of saudi arabia’s largest enterprises. As a trusted advisor, smart city’s Cyber Security Services assists you in quantifying and understanding your risks, augmenting your team resources, detecting and responding to threats, and aligning your organization on security priorities to accelerate your business transformation.

Our extensive cyber security expertise, coupled with deep industry knowledge across private and government sectors, enables us to develop cutting-edge cyber security services that protect your business comprehensively. Our approach includes:

Providing a comprehensive view of your cyber security status and offering clear guidance on implementing outcomes from the Insight & Strategy phase.
Assisting clients in achieving a resilient cyber defense posture, ensuring uninterrupted business operations despite facing cyber threats.
Offering proven cyber security solutions, global teams, and technology-driven tools to enhance security across cloud, infrastructure, data, compliance, and platforms.
Enabling clients to rapidly scale security and compliance operations through innovative technology, as-a-Service capabilities, and cyber security services.
Leveraging our experience, integrated global resources, and advanced technologies to deliver turnkey solutions across the entire cyber security value chain.
Furthermore, we collaborate with leading security vendors to ensure you benefit from the latest tools and technologies to safeguard your enterprise assets.

Security Device Installations and Management

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, it’s essential to have a tailored security solution that meets your business’s specific needs. Off-the-shelf solutions are no longer sufficient when it comes to ensuring the safety of your organization’s assets.

Our approach involves collaborating with various vendors and utilizing a range of products to create a customized security solution for your business. We work with industry-leading products such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Gitlab, Sophos, Acronis, Norton, among others, to offer a comprehensive security package.

Our team will work closely with you to design a cost-effective solution that best suits your organization’s requirements. By implementing a variety of strategies, we can help safeguard your people, assets, and profits without disrupting your day-to-day operations. Well-designed security systems are essential for minimizing risks that could potentially harm your business.

Additionally, our Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Team recommends the following best practices for securing your network infrastructure:

Infrastructure and Cloud Security

As enterprises embrace cloud solutions to meet their evolving business needs, the shift from on-premises environments introduces new security and compliance challenges. Despite the opportunities for service modernization and operational transformation that the cloud offers, concerns about security and compliance, especially in complex hybrid- and multi-cloud environments, can hinder cloud adoption.

Migrating to the cloud requires maintaining visibility, control, and security throughout the process. It is crucial to have robust security management in place to address advanced threats at every stage of your cloud transformation journey.

Integrating cloud into your existing security program goes beyond adding additional controls or solutions. It requires a thorough assessment of your resources and business requirements to develop a fresh approach to your security strategy and organizational culture. To effectively manage security in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, you must establish visibility and control. Smart City’s Cybersecurity team and experts can assist you in implementing the appropriate controls, orchestrating workload deployment, and establishing effective threat management.
Smart City’s Cloud Security capabilities encompass several key steps to guide your cloud-first computing security journey:

Implement secure-by-design best practices, threat management, response, and recovery services to securely build, run, and manage your applications.
Identify gaps quickly and establish a risk-aligned architecture and roadmap for baseline cloud security that maximizes current technology investments.
Achieve faster time-to-value by automating the deployment of security guardrails for cloud-native services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Optimize detection and streamline cloud security operations. Collaborate with cloud service providers to align with regulatory requirements.
Monitor public cloud environments cost-effectively and at scale using security tools and use cases to address evolving threats and complex regulatory requirements.
Monitor public cloud environments cost-effectively and at scale using security tools and use cases to address evolving threats and complex regulatory requirements.
These steps are essential for ensuring the security and compliance of your infrastructure and cloud environments, allowing you to leverage the benefits of cloud technology with confidence.

Application security

Identity and Access Management

services aim to safeguard critical business software from unauthorized access, mishandling, viruses, and cyber-attacks. Companies can utilize application security software alongside or instead of services to enhance their protection measures.

Today, every enterprise’s application landscape is vital and rapidly changing. Mobile and cloud computing are revolutionizing business operations. As businesses increasingly rely on applications, regardless of their core expertise, they are adopting agile development processes and integrating third-party software and open-source components.

Ensuring the security of critical application landscapes is paramount. Application security measures protect essential data from external threats by securing all software used in business operations, whether developed internally, purchased, or downloaded. It helps identify, address, and prevent security vulnerabilities in software applications, as nearly all applications contain vulnerabilities. A significant percentage of applications have vulnerabilities classified as top 10 web vulnerability types. This vulnerability extends to business, commercial, financial services, and government agency software.

While various application security technologies exist, no single solution is foolproof. Organizations must use multiple analysis techniques throughout an application’s lifecycle to mitigate application risks.

The ultimate goal for organizations is to establish a mature, robust application security program that:

• Assesses the security posture of all applications, whether developed in-house, purchased, or compiled
• Empowers developers to identify and rectify vulnerabilities during the coding process
• Utilizes automation and cloud-based services to integrate security seamlessly into the development process and scale the program
• Learns from past errors and enhances future development processes
Smart city supports enterprises’ growth journey by ensuring a secure application landscape through services such as:

• Secure SDLC consulting
• Web Application Security
• Enterprise Application Security
• Data Security & Privacy
• Threat Modeling
• Security Design Review

In enterprise IT, Identity and Access Management (IAM) involves defining and managing the roles and access privileges of individual network entities, including users (such as customers, partners, and employees) and devices (such as computers, smartphones, routers, servers, controllers, and sensors), to a variety of cloud and on-premises applications. The primary goal of IAM systems is to establish and maintain one digital identity per individual or item, ensuring that this identity is consistently managed, modified, and monitored throughout each user’s or device’s access lifecycle.

IAM poses several challenges:

Relying on manual IAM processes is costly, inefficient, and leads to inconsistent and unpredictable outcomes.
Ineffective processes, lack of collaboration, and unreliable user data expose organizations to compliance and operational risks.
The lack of flexible and continuous validation of user access and remediation poses security risks.
Extended enterprises with Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption require that users have the right access to information anytime and anywhere.

Smart City offers various IAM solutions in collaboration with multiple vendors and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).