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.
ISO 27001
QUICK ANSWER · BOTH FRAMEWORKS AUDIT EVIDENCE · 2026 Does ISO 27001 require a penetration test? Not by name. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is risk based, but Annex A 8.8 (management of technical vulnerabilities) and Annex A 8.29 (security testing in development and acceptance) are the applicable controls, and ISO/
MCP Security
× Running MCP servers in production? 40 plus CVEs in 2026 · Are you exposed? Schedule a Meeting → QUICK ANSWER · MCP SECURITY 40 PLUS CVES · 2026 The Model Context Protocol (MCP), released by Anthropic in November 2024, lets AI agents call external tools, APIs, files, and services through a standardised interface. Between
Penetration Testing
× Raising? Investors ask about security. Pentest for VC diligence · 2 to 3 weeks Schedule a Meeting → QUICK ANSWER · FUNDRAISING SECURITY DEAL BLOCKER · 2026 A penetration test before fundraising is a scoped security assessment run in the weeks before a Series A, B, or growth round to produce the evidence a
Nessus
× Scan a few times a year? Skip the $4,790 licence · SME friendly quote Schedule a Cost Comparison Call → QUICK ANSWER · COST COMPARISON TCO ANALYSIS · 2026 Tenable Nessus Professional costs $4,790 per year for a single scanner with unlimited target IPs (Tenable published pricing, verified July 2026). Real total
SaaS Security
Quick answer A vendor security assessment is the buyer's risk check on you before they sign. It arrives as a questionnaire of anywhere from 20 to 500 questions, plus requests for evidence: a current penetration test report, a SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 certificate, policy documents,
Saudi Arabia
× Bidding into a giga project? NEOM, Qiddiya, Red Sea, Diriyah · NCA-registered audit Get an Honest Readiness Check → QUICK ANSWER · SAUDI ARABIA GIGA PROJECTS · 2026 Vendors supplying NEOM, Qiddiya, Red Sea Global, Diriyah Gate, and other Saudi giga projects face cybersecurity expectations from three overlapping sources: NEOM's published Cybersecurity
Network Security
A credential leak now circulating as FortiBleed has exposed verified administrator and SSL VPN credentials for 73,932 unique Fortinet FortiGate firewall URLs across 194 countries. The dataset, surfaced on 17 June 2026 by security researcher Bob Diachenko and verified by Hudson Rock, SOCRadar, Arctic Wolf, and Kevin Beaumont, touches
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