ClearSkies enables banks, fintechs and financial institutions to detect and respond to threats in minutes, supporting resilience in an era of AI-driven cyberattacks, digital payments and Open Banking growth<\/p>\n
\u00a0As Saudi Arabia accelerates its transition toward a cashless, digitally enabled economy, the financial sector is entering a new era of opportunity – and cyber risk. According to the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), electronic payments accounted for 85% of total retail payments in 2025, reflecting the rapid progress of national payment systems and the Kingdom\u2019s continued efforts to reduce reliance on cash under Saudi Vision 2030.
\nThis shift is reshaping the operating environment for banks, fintechs, payment providers and financial institutions. As digital payments, mobile banking, cloud adoption and Open Banking services expand, so does the volume of sensitive data, digital identities, transactions and access points that need protection. Cybersecurity is no longer only a technical function; it is now a board-level priority and a critical pillar of trust, continuity and financial sector resilience.
\nSaudi Arabia has already established a strong regulatory foundation for cyber maturity across the financial ecosystem. SAMA\u2019s Cyber Security Framework applies to banks, finance companies, payment systems and payment service providers, among other supervised entities, while the recent licensing of fintech companies for Open Banking services reinforces the Kingdom\u2019s ambition to enable secure financial innovation.
\nAgainst this backdrop, financial institutions must demonstrate more than compliance readiness. They need the ability to detect and respond to threats within minutes, maintain continuous visibility across identities, transactions, endpoints and cloud environments, and prove operational resilience under real attack conditions.
\nClearSkies Integrated SOC platform: autonomous cyber defense for a fast-moving financial sector
\nIn an environment where AI-driven attacks can escalate in minutes, traditional and fragmented Security Operations Centre models are no longer sufficient. ClearSkies supports financial institutions with its Centric AI Integrated SOC Platform, a unified approach to security operations that combines detection, investigation and response across the full attack surface.
\nThe platform brings together Generative AI for contextual understanding, Agentic AI for autonomous decision-making, advanced automation, unified telemetry and a proprietary Large Language Model developed specifically for cybersecurity. By correlating signals from endpoints, identities, networks, DNS and cloud environments in real time, ClearSkies enables financial institutions to identify anomalous behaviour earlier, investigate threats faster and initiate response actions before attacks can disrupt critical systems, customer data or transactions.
\nFor banks, fintechs and payment providers operating in Saudi Arabia\u2019s increasingly digital financial ecosystem, this unified model is particularly relevant. The rise of digital payments and Open Banking requires security teams to move beyond infrastructure protection alone and adopt an intelligence-led, identity-centric and transaction-aware approach to cyber defense.
\nSecuring the new attack surface: identities, payments and AI-driven threats
\nModern cyberattacks increasingly target identities, credentials and trusted access rather than only infrastructure. In the financial sector, this heightens exposure to threats such as AI-powered phishing, credential compromise, account takeover, deepfake-enabled fraud and attacks designed to exploit transaction flows or third-party connectivity.
\nClearSkies addresses these challenges through capabilities tailored to highly regulated and high-value environments, including advanced endpoint protection, real-time access and behaviour monitoring, Identity Threat Protection, cross-domain correlation and autonomous response actions such as isolating endpoints or revoking access.
\nIn active deployments across Europe\u2019s financial sector, ClearSkies has demonstrated measurable outcomes, including up to 95% reduction in false positives, 80% faster investigations, 48% increase in analyst productivity, and response initiation within 0-30 minutes, significantly reducing Mean Time to Respond.
\nBuilding financial resilience in the age of AI-driven cyberattacks
\nAs Saudi Arabia continues to advance its Vision 2030 financial sector ambitions, cyber resilience will be essential to sustaining trust in digital payments, Open Banking, fintech innovation and customer-facing financial services. The ability to respond at machine speed is becoming increasingly important as attackers adopt the same technologies that are transforming the financial industry.
\n\u201cFinancial institutions today face AI-driven attacks that adapt and strike at machine speed, outpacing even the most well-staffed traditional SOCs. An Autonomous SOC powered by the ClearSkies Centric AI ISOC Platform closes that gap, unifying detection, investigation and response into a continuously learning defense that acts in seconds, not hours. The result is reduced dwell time, sharper analyst focus and stronger alignment with regulatory and operational resilience requirements. Countering AI-driven threats demands AI-driven defense, and that is exactly what ClearSkies delivers,\u201d said Eleftherios Antoniades, Founder & CTO of ClearSkies\u2122.
\nBy combining AI, automation and unified visibility in one operational layer, ClearSkies enables Saudi financial institutions to strengthen cyber resilience while reducing the complexity placed on security teams. As the Kingdom\u2019s financial ecosystem becomes more digital, connected and data-driven, ClearSkies is positioned to support organizations in protecting the trust, continuity and innovation that underpin the next phase of Saudi Arabia\u2019s financial transformation.
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\nAbout ClearSkies\u2122
\nClearSkies\u2122 is a converged, AI-powered Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) solution that replaces traditional SIEM architectures and unifies the full TDIR lifecycle, empowering cyber-resilience with autonomous security operations. Developed by cybersecurity experts who’ve been in SOC analyst shoes for more than 20 years and included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM (2021 & 2024), ClearSkies\u2122 transforms traditional, manual SOC operations through AI-driven automation, holistic visibility across layers and context-rich intelligence. The unified ISOC platform fuses analyst-aware automation with private AI to empower SecOps teams to detect faster, decide smarter and act instantly. Designed with flexibility in mind and offering data sovereignty, ClearSkies\u2122 easily adapts to the specific needs of any organization, providing comprehensive control without unnecessary complexity or costs.
\nClearSkies\u2122 isn’t just a cybersecurity platform, it is a commitment to resilience. It helps organizations survive and seamlessly recover from cyber incidents in an environment where attacks are inevitable, reducing risk exposure across the entire TDIR lifecycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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