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Saudi Arabian Policy on Cyber Capabilities


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Project Members
Brian Curnett and Samuel Liles
Abstract
Saudi Arabia is a major player in the arena of world politics. However they are only a fledgling nation in the field of cyber arena and is still trying to bring itself into the modern era. It is the Saudi Arabian policy of replacing cyber security with cyber censorship which led to the vulnerabilities which exposed then nation’s oil industry to attack. As a compensatory mechanism foreign nation’s contractors to solve technical problems rather than developing a domestic knowledge base. This has made the nation of Saudi Arabia more vulnerable for the long term.