As AI agents become active participants in business processes, security leaders must rethink governance, accountability, trust, and risk management in increasingly autonomous environments. In Saudi Arabia, where giga-projects, Aramco Digital, and SDAIA are building AI-native infrastructure at national scale, the security implications of autonomous systems are immediate.

Saudi Arabia’s IDC research shows identity and access management as the second-highest technology investment priority, yet meeting compliance and regulatory standards remains the top identity challenge for organisations. As AI agents, machine identities, and autonomous systems proliferate, organisations need a new approach to identity, access, and trust.

How AI-powered detection, automation, and response capabilities are reshaping security operations and enabling more resilient enterprises. With NCA’s MSOC licensing framework setting new standards for SOC operations in Saudi Arabia, the pressure to automate, localise, and scale is acute.

Strategies for maintaining visibility, protection, and recovery across increasingly distributed hybrid environments. As Saudi Arabia’s giga-projects connect IT and OT at unprecedented scale, cyber resilience is not a security metric, it is a national infrastructure requirement.

Addressing data governance, sovereignty, and protection requirements as AI adoption accelerates. Saudi Arabia’s PDPL enforcement and sovereign cloud mandates are making data residency a design decision that sits with security leadership, not just legal or compliance teams.

Managing the security of industrial control systems, operational technology, and critical national infrastructure. Saudi Arabia’s energy sector and giga-project environments represent some of the highest-value OT targets in the world and 70% of organisations have integrated IT and OT networks without a dedicated OT security solution.

Saudi CISOs discuss how cyber resilience has become inseparable from Vision 2030’s digital ambitions and how security leaders are building recovery-ready postures that match the kingdom’s pace of transformation.

A session on how Saudi organizations are governing agentic AI, protecting LLMs as critical infrastructure, and closing the gap between AI strategy and AI security investment. IDC research shows 85% of META organizations have an AI strategy; fewer than 20% have a dedicated AI security framework.