Advanced Threat Protection for Saudi Organisations
Multi-layered prevention across endpoints, email, and identity, the controls that stop an attack before it becomes an incident to respond to.
Prevention is cheaper than the response it replaces
Detection and response, whether run in-house or through a managed SOC, exists because prevention did not stop everything. Advanced threat protection is the layer that reduces how much reaches that point: endpoint detection and response (EDR) that blocks known and behavioural threats before execution, email security that stops the phishing lure that starts most incidents, and identity protection that closes the credential-based paths attackers prefer over exploiting software.
NCA ECC-2:2024's Cybersecurity Defence domain names email, web, and endpoint protection as explicit control requirements, deployed and centrally managed rather than left to default configuration. This service covers deploying, tuning, and operating that layer.
What the service covers
Endpoint Detection & Response
Behavioural EDR across laptops, servers, and mobile endpoints, tuned to your environment rather than run on vendor defaults.
Email Security
Anti-phishing, attachment sandboxing, and impersonation protection, closing the entry point behind most incidents we investigate.
Identity Threat Protection
Detection for credential compromise, impossible-travel logins, and privilege escalation, the paths attackers prefer over exploiting software directly.
Web & DNS Filtering
Blocking known-malicious and newly-registered domains at the DNS layer, before a user's browser ever reaches them.
Why prevention is not optional even with a SOC in place
Volume, Not Just Sophistication
Most attacks are commodity, not novel. Prevention tooling stops the volume so your monitoring capacity is spent on what actually needs a human.
The Control Is Named Explicitly
NCA ECC-2:2024 requires email, web, and endpoint protection as deployed, centrally managed controls, not optional hardening.
Cheaper Than the Alternative
An incident that prevention stops costs nothing to respond to. The same incident reaching detection costs investigation time, and reaching neither costs recovery.
How deployment runs
Baseline & Gap Review
1-2 weeksAssess current endpoint, email, and identity protection against what is actually deployed and centrally managed, not what the licence says is available.
Deployment & Tuning
2-4 weeksRoll out or reconfigure EDR, email, and identity protection, then tune. Default thresholds generate noise; tuned ones generate signal.
Policy & Response Integration
1 weekDefine what triggers automatic blocking versus alerting, and how prevention alerts route into your monitoring or SOC.
Ongoing Management
OngoingSignature and policy updates, quarterly effectiveness review, and monthly reporting on blocked threats and coverage.
Check whether your prevention layer is doing its job
A free cybersecurity maturity assessment scores your endpoint, email, and identity controls against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
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