Hisham Mir is a cybersecurity professional with 10+ years of hands-on experience and Co-Founder & CTO of SecurityWall. He leads real-world penetration testing and vulnerability research, and is an experienced bug bounty hunter.
NCA ECC
You are about to hire a cybersecurity firm to work in Saudi Arabia. Maybe for a gap assessment, a penetration test, implementation support, or a managed service. You have a shortlist of vendors, glossy pitch decks, and a few who claim to be "NCA-aligned" or "NCA-compliant."
Vibe Coding
If you built something on Cursor, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, v0, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code and you are getting ready to ship to your first paying user, your first enterprise demo, or your first compliance audit this is the checklist you run before that ship date. 44 checks
NCA ECC
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
NCA Saudi Arabia
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
NCA ECC
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
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.
NIS2
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)
NCA ECC
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
NCNICC
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,
SOC 2
There is a moment almost every B2B SaaS company hits. A major enterprise deal is moving, an investor is circling, or a regulated customer enters procurement and then the email arrives: "Please share your SOC 2 report." If you do not have one, the deal stalls, sometimes for
NCA Saudi Arabia
If you are reading about the NCA's Essential Cybersecurity Controls, there is a good chance the guidance in front of you is out of date. Most articles still describe ECC-1:2018 the original version including its control count, its five domains, and its Saudization rule. All three of
NCA Saudi Arabia
If you run a business in Saudi Arabia, the rules on cybersecurity changed at the start of 2026 and the change now reaches far more companies than before. The body behind those rules is the National Cybersecurity Authority, almost always referred to simply as the NCA. SecurityWall offers NCA ECC