Across the Middle East, energy providers, utilities, telecoms, and transportation systems form the backbone of national infrastructure. As these services digitize, integrate with cloud platforms, and rely more heavily on data, they also become attractive—and vulnerable—targets for cyber attackers.
In 2024 alone, cybersecurity authorities in the UAE and across the region reported a sharp increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, including ransomware and targeted campaigns on industrial supply chains (source). These attacks aim not just to steal data—but to disrupt public services, destabilize economies, and test national resilience.
For Middle Eastern infrastructure operators, safeguarding essential systems means moving beyond traditional perimeter defense. It requires intelligent, continuous monitoring across the full digital environment, with fast, automated response.
That’s where Seceon comes in.
Recent cyber incidents in the region reflect a shift toward persistent, well-coordinated threats:
Critical infrastructure operators are especially exposed when managing hybrid environments that span IT, IoT, and remote access technologies—yet often rely on legacy systems without built-in security controls.
Many organizations still manage security through disconnected tools—a SIEM here, an endpoint agent there, manual compliance reports elsewhere. That fragmentation leads to:
Seceon’s Open Threat Management (OTM) platform is designed to give infrastructure operators the tools to:
Using AI/ML-powered analytics, Seceon ingests and analyzes data from across logs, users, endpoints, and cloud services to uncover threats that traditional systems miss—like credential misuse, anomalous user behavior, and data exfiltration attempts.
Seceon enables policy-driven automated actions such as isolating compromised users, disabling suspicious sessions, and escalating verified threats, reducing the burden on SOC teams and helping mitigate threats faster.
With built-in dashboards and continuous audit readiness, Seceon supports compliance with regional and international cybersecurity frameworks. This is especially useful for organizations under regulatory pressure to demonstrate ongoing risk management.
Seceon is built for scalability, supporting national infrastructure networks, utility groups, and MSSPs that manage multiple customer environments or locations—all from a single pane of glass.
Note: While Seceon monitors and correlates data across IT, cloud, and network environments, it does not directly integrate with proprietary OT protocols or industrial control systems (ICS). For OT-layer monitoring, Seceon complements existing industrial security tools by providing full visibility and detection across adjacent digital systems (identity, network, endpoint, cloud, etc.).
Today’s attackers don’t think in silos—and neither should defenders. Infrastructure organizations need centralized visibility, behavior-based analytics, and the ability to respond to threats before operations are disrupted.
With Seceon’s OTM platform, critical infrastructure operators can:
Securing critical infrastructure in the Middle East is no longer a question of if, but how. As threats grow more targeted and disruptive, organizations responsible for national services must adopt security strategies that are intelligent, adaptive, and built to scale. By consolidating visibility, accelerating response, and aligning with compliance demands, platforms like Seceon’s OTM empower infrastructure operators to stay resilient, not only against today’s threats, but those still to come. In an era where operational continuity and national security are closely linked, investing in the right cybersecurity foundation is not just a best practice—it’s an imperative.
