00:00I'm Karim Benzkeman, VP of Cyber Intelligence and Phil CISO for Darkress.
00:19Darkress is a world-leading AI cybersecurity company with over 10,000 customers in the world,
00:25with a massive footprint in the GCC country and especially in the Kingdom with more than 100 clients in the private and public sectors.
00:32We just opened our first office in Saudi a month and a half ago.
00:36As I mentioned, we have a fantastic, from a number point of view, a fantastic footprint in the region
00:42and we see the Kingdom like the biggest market in the Middle East and obviously we need to be here
00:49to support our existing customers in the best manner and obviously engage new customers and prospects for the future opportunities.
01:01So I would say three main points.
01:03It's not a secret to say and share that the hyperscalers like Microsoft are massively investing in the Kingdom.
01:10So we will see in the coming months a big shift from on-prem to the cloud services and obviously bring benefits and bring risks.
01:20Because of geopolitical tension, we all know that the Kingdom is massively running thanks to critical national infrastructures, power, utilities, oil and gas.
01:32So systems are inter- and hyper-connected, so the OT side must be protected.
01:37And obviously the usage of the AI in the bad and the good way, it's for me the biggest trend in the upcoming months.
01:49Everybody knows or must know that the Kingdom is the big player in the region.
01:54We can see that on weekly or monthly basis with the level of engagement from the Cyber Security Forum like the GCGF or the Blackout.
02:05The country is booming.
02:07The strategy linked with the Visio 2030 and the upcoming World Cup 2034 bring and build three main pillars
02:15with the full support from the government and Ministry of Investment, for example.
02:19They invest on the technology, on the people and on the policies.
02:24And this is the best signal that vendors like Darkdress could get from the Kingdom and the government
02:32to create a hub and an ecosystem in a mature market.
02:38From a business point of view, three main pillars.
02:41They have the pool of resources, they have skilled talents, as I mentioned, they have the market and they have the maturity.
02:47We got a fantastic support from the Ministry of Investment.
02:52We were on stage with the Deputy Minister.
02:55So it's a big sign from top to down that investor and vendor must come in the country.
03:03If you don't come, you won't be part of the game.
03:06And the reason why Darkdress is very proud to be here.
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