Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos plans to open an office in Saudi Arabia next year to allow the company to more quickly respond to cyberthreats to energy infrastructure in the Middle East, Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee told CyberScoop. From the 2012 Shamoon attack on a state-owned oil company, to the infamous Trisis malware that caused a Saudi petrochemical plant to shut down in 2017, the Kingdom has been the scene of high-profile cyberattacks on industrial facilities. “A large reason for us to build the office there in Riyadh simply boils down to that’s where threats are,” Lee said. “And identifying those [threats] and learning from them makes our software, makes our approach better for all of our global customers.” The Saudi office will mark a major expansion for the Maryland-based company that Lee, a former Air Force and National Security Agency cybersecurity official, founded in 2013. Dragos on Wednesday also announced […]
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