Mobily launches, in cooperation with IBM, the “world-class” managed security services (MSS) to the business sector in Saudi Arabia for mitigating the impact of security breaches to avoid data loss, financial loss and business disruption.

The rapid evolvement in security technologies requires skilled expertise and up-to-date infrastructure, which makes these trends costly for businesses to acquire.

In information security landscape, benchmarks of confidentiality, integrity and availability are common for measuring the security differentiation.

Mobily has recognized the Saudi market challenges, therefore a strategic vision has been achieved accordingly by fulfilling the market requirements with comprehensive services in security management, which can improve the setup time to secure infrastructure, eliminate the needs of complex procedures, and reduce the operational costs of security management activities.

The new MSS portfolio is a cloud-based solution that contains five different managed security services — IBM managed firewall service, IBM managed unified threat management (UTM), IBM managed intrusion detection and prevention service (IDPS/IPS), IBM security log and event management (SELM), IBM vulnerability management service (VMS).

Marwan Al-Ahmadi, Mobily’s CBO, said the recent increased rate of security threats had raised the awareness for security protection and management. “We at Mobily always strive to understand the needs of our customers in business sector, therefore our managed security services will significantly contribute to protect enterprises’ IT infrastructures in the Kingdom.

Mobily and IBM signed a 5-year alliance partnership agreement in August 2012. This allows Mobily exclusively to provide MSS services to the Kingdom’s market, and perform the daily operations through the Mobily-IBM Security Operations Center (SOC) that is located in Mobily’s Tier IV certified data center in Riyadh.