Kamel Heus, Vice President of Sales, Middle East and Africa, Saviynt aviynt has announced the launch of its data residency

Regulatory enforcement in Saudi Arabia is now a priority under the Kingdom’ s Personal Data Protection Law( PDPL). Unauthorised cross-border data transfers or breaches can now lead to fines of up to SAR 5 million. The launch extends Saviynt’ s global cloud capabilities to address this growing demand for local data residency among government entities, financial institutions and other regulated organisations in Saudi Arabia. Identity data includes sensitive user, access and approval information.

Thus, keeping it within national borders is key for organisations navigating regulatory requirements and digital transformation.

“ Identity is becoming the control plane for AI, and Saudi organisations need solutions that address their evolving regulatory and data residency requirements,” said Kamel Heus, Vice President of Sales, Middle East and Africa, Saviynt.“ With Saviynt’ s Enterprise Identity Cloud hosted in Google Cloud’ s Dammam region and our local legal entity in the Kingdom, we are making it easier for government, financial services, energy, telecommunications and other enterprises to meet local requirements while modernising identity security. This reflects our commitment to supporting Saudi Arabia’ s Digital Transformation with local capabilities and expertise.”

rendAI, the enterprise AI security business unit of Trend Micro, has announced new capabilities for TrendAI

Vision One, including a private preview of Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery and expanded support for Claude’ s Compliance API.

The enhancements aim to help enterprises identify exploitable vulnerabilities in source code, monitor AI agent activity and strengthen security oversight as AI adoption accelerates. and act on behalf of users. As organisations across the UAE and the wider region scale AI at pace, their security teams need to identify vulnerabilities early while maintaining clear visibility into what AI systems are doing and whether their actions align with organisational policies. With these additions to TrendAI Vision One, we are helping organisations move faster with AI while maintaining the context, oversight and control needed to do so securely.”

Powered by TrendAI’ s AESIR agentic exploitremediation engine, Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery identifies and validates vulnerabilities, including zero-days, and verifies fixes. Meanwhile, the expanded Claude integration enables security teams to investigate AI agent activity and correlate it with endpoint, identity, cloud and network signals.

Salah Suleiman, Managing Director, South Gulf, TrendAI, said,“ AI is changing both how software is built and how work gets done across the enterprise. Code is being written faster than ever, while AI agents are increasingly able to access systems, call tools

Salah Suleiman, Managing Director, South Gulf, TrendAI

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