Saudi Arabia is the most attractive country for cybercriminals to attack in the Middle East, according to a security expert from Cisco.<\/p>\n
Scott Manson, Cybersecurity Lead – Middle East and Africa for Cisco, believes the KSA is the one country in the region most likely to be targeted by threat actors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s just because of the size and because of the wealth that’s there as well,\u201d said Manson. \u201cThere’s a lot to be gained from the criminal activity there.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Manson said the KSA is not the only country likely to be attacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also see a lot of activity at the moment in Qatar and also in the UAE,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I think the UAE has a different dynamic. In the UAE it\u2019s because of the proliferation of digitisation…whereas maybe in Qatar I think they’re having a lot of trouble at the moment with excessive hacking going on especially in the public sector.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as a vendor and as a consultancy with services and products, that’s where we’re spending most of our time with the customers at the moment – in those organisations that are really getting hit from all angles.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, he added, that cybercrime in the Middle East takes a similar form to other regions although there is one important difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s similar. It would be wrong to say it’s vastly different, but I think where we are different in the Middle East and Africa is \u2026what a lot of our customers have not done is thought about the people first and foremost, and getting their policies right in the form of the processes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey may have thought about it, but they’ve not thought about it as in-depth potentially as much as we’re seeing in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat that means is that there is a lot more space for those threat actors to play in. Again, that’s an opportunity for all of us to be able to go and fix.\u201d<\/p>\n
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