Dragos and Aramco Sign MOU Regarding the Protection of Industrial Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Summary: Dragos Inc. and Aramco signed a memorandum of understanding on November 14, 2023 in Riyadh to review potential opportunities for protecting critical industrial assets and infrastructure for Aramco, its affiliates, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOU sets the stage to explore strategies for rapidly deploying OT cybersecurity technologies and services, and includes initiatives for localizing Dragos services and solutions, a potential local hardware assembly facility, and a training academy in the country.
What you should know: The agreement ties OT defense for one of the world's leading integrated energy and chemicals companies to a single vendor's localized hardware and training build-out, with Aramco Ventures already an investor in Dragos. The source cites a Middle East cybersecurity market expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2025 at 14% average annual growth, which is the scale of spend riding on arrangements like this one.
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