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You are looking for an NCA-registered cybersecurity firm in Saudi Arabia. We are one. SecurityWall is registered with the National Cybersecurity Authority through the Haseen portal and operates across the Kingdom from Riyadh and Jeddah to Dammam and beyond delivering penetration testing, NCA and SAMA compliance, gap assessments, and the offensive security work that proves your controls actually function. If you are at the stage of choosing a provider, the rest of this page is built to help you

In early 2026, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority quietly announced something a lot of companies operating in the Kingdom missed: it had issued 48 enforcement decisions under the Personal Data Protection Law in roughly a year. Marketing without consent, processing without a lawful basis, failure to implement technical and organisational safeguards the violations are routine, the penalties are real, and the grace period is long over. Saudi Arabia's PDPL is the Kingdom's analogu

Saudi Arabia is positioning itself as one of the most ambitious AI ecosystems in the world. Project Transcendence, the PIF-backed Humain, Aramco's AI initiatives, and SDAIA's national programmes have moved the Kingdom from an AI-curious market to an AI-first one under Vision 2030 and the regulatory architecture is moving with it. Any company building or deploying AI in Saudi Arabia, whether a local startup or a foreign entrant, now operates inside a stack of overlapping rules that few have mappe

Saudi Arabia is building one of the most active startup ecosystems in the region. The Public Investment Fund, STV, Monsha'at, and a wave of local and regional VCs are funding hundreds of companies under Vision 2030, and most of their founders are focused on exactly what they should be: product, growth, and the next round. Cybersecurity compliance is rarely on the radar until a SAMA licence, an enterprise deal, or a due-diligence questionnaire makes it urgent overnight. Here is what most startup

A Saudi fintech does not answer to one regulator. It answers to three. SAMA licenses and supervises it, the NCA mandates its cybersecurity controls, and the Personal Data Protection Law governs how it handles customer data each with its own requirements, its own assessments, and its own consequences for getting it wrong. No other sector in the Kingdom carries a compliance stack this dense, and few founders realise it until they are mid-launch. For buy-now-pay-later companies, it is sharper stil

If you are reading this, you are probably close to a decision: your organisation needs penetration testing for NCA compliance, and you need to know exactly what the regulator expects, what your report has to contain, and who is actually allowed to do the testing in Saudi Arabia. This guide answers all three. But if you're still into "What is NCA Saudi Arabia?" we have the guide available. The short version is that yes, the NCA requires penetration testing it is a specific control within the NCA

LLM applications shipped fast, mostly without a security review, and the attack surface has been catching up ever since. Prompt injection now sits at the top of OWASP's LLM Top 10 for the second consecutive year. Agentic systems with the ability to call functions, browse the web, and execute code in autonomous loops have expanded the blast radius from "the model says something embarrassing" to "the model exfiltrates production data and triggers downstream actions." Vector databases and RAG pipel

You have a SOC 2 audit on the calendar. Your auditor has told you a penetration test will need to be part of the evidence file, and now you have somewhere between four and twelve weeks to make it happen alongside everything else in the run-up to the audit window. The questions that surface in the next few hours look something like this: does SOC 2 actually require a pentest, what does it need to cover, how long does one take, how much will it cost, and can you somehow combine it with the SOC 2 r

JSON Web Tokens are everywhere every modern API, every SaaS authentication flow, every microservice handshake and the same handful of JWT vulnerability classes have been exploited in real-world breaches for the better part of a decade. The reason they keep working: most teams treat JWTs as "just a string we pass around" and never look closely at the algorithm, the secret, the claims, or the library's handling of edge cases until something breaks. SecurityWall's free JWT Analyzer runs in your br

If you are reading this, the news has already reached you: NIS2 is in force, your organisation falls within scope, and one of the obligations being interpreted across every member state is regular penetration testing. The Directive itself never says the words "penetration test" but Article 21(2)(f) requires "policies and procedures to assess the effectiveness of cybersecurity risk-management measures," and across the EU's regulators, supervisors, and consultancies that requirement is being treat

Most Saudi financial institutions discover the problem the same way: they finish a SAMA compliance programme, feel done, and then learn the National Cybersecurity Authority has its own mandatory requirements they have not touched. Or the reverse they treat the NCA's controls as the whole job and miss the maturity-level evidence SAMA's supervisors expect. SecurityWall NCA ECC Checklist and SAMA Compliance Checklist can assist you with initial vetting. If you are a bank, fintech, payment company,

For years, Saudi Arabia's cybersecurity regulations were something most private companies could safely ignore. The National Cybersecurity Authority's rules applied to government bodies and operators of Critical National Infrastructure banks, energy, telecoms and almost everyone else watched from the sidelines. In January 2026, that changed completely, and most companies still do not know it. If you are ready for compliance we have NCA ECC Checklist: Score Your Readiness, No Sign-Up. The NCA rel