ManageEngine Showcases Next-Gen Cybersecurity Platform at Black Hat MEA 2025 as Saudi Arabia Accelerates Digital Transformation

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – 1 December, 2025: ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, today announced its participation at Black Hat Middle East & Africa (MEA) 2025 for the fourth consecutive year, which will be held from December 2 to 4 in Riyadh, showcasing major advancements to its cybersecurity and IT management portfolio.

The company’s presence underscores its long-term commitment to supporting Saudi Arabia’s fast-evolving digital economy and its national ambitions in AI, cloud technologies and cybersecurity.
Supporting a rapidly evolving cyber landscape
With the Kingdom accelerating its adoption of AI, machine learning, and cloud-based platforms, cybercriminals have likewise moved swiftly to exploit new vulnerabilities. Sectors such as BFSI, healthcare, oil and gas and energy continue to experience increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, many powered by the same AI advances driving digital growth.

As per the Pwc study on cyber resilience in 2025, the results of the findings highlight that 73% of organisations in the Middle East view cybersecurity as a strategic asset with 40% of tech leaders having made data protection their top investment priority.
“Cybersecurity is an evolving challenge. As AI, ML and cloud reshape modern technology, strengthening cyber defenses is essential to counter new-age attacks which has essentially increased the attack surface by these advancements. Reducing MTTD and MTTR is now critical for business continuity.

Premier cybersecurity events such as BlackHat MEA play a central role in raising cybersecurity awareness in the community by fostering collaboration and guiding organisations toward stronger, unified digital defense strategies,” said Prasanna Venkatesh Srinivasan, Associate Director at ManageEngine.

Saudi Arabia has emerged as ManageEngine’s largest market in the MENA region, driven by consistent year-on-year growth of 30–40% and a 35% increase in customer adoption since 2020. These gains coincide with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 push for digital transformation, advanced cloud deployment and local data-residency frameworks.
With over two decades of experience in the MENA region, ManageEngine continues to strengthen its presence in the Kingdom through investments in research and development, the expansion of local operations and fully functional data centers in Riyadh and Jeddah, ensuring compliance with SDAIA and NCA requirements

. The company also supports Saudi Arabia’s talent-development goals by working closely with its extensive channel-partner network, delivering year-round workshops, training sessions and knowledge-transfer programs across multiple cities.

“Saudi Arabia is moving at an unprecedented pace in digital transformation, and cybersecurity sits at the heart of this progress. At ManageEngine, we are committed to supporting the Kingdom with advanced, unified security solutions that match the scale of its ambitions and ensure organizations remain resilient in a rapidly evolving threat landscape”, added Srinivasan.

Showcasing advanced cybersecurity platforms (Hall 1, Booth T30)
At Black Hat MEA 2025, ManageEngine will showcase significant enhancements to its enterprise cybersecurity suite. These include a major transformation of Log360 – company’s security information and event management (SIEM) solution, which has evolved into a full-fledged security analytics platform powered by an advanced threat detection approach capable of cutting through alert fatigue and reducing false positives.

Meanwhile, AD360, the company’s converged identity and access management (IAM) platform, now features more than 100 prebuilt integrations alongside new identity risk exposure management and local user MFA capabilities that address common identity attack vectors. Additional upgrades span across IT niches such as unified endpoint management, privileged access control and AI-driven analytics, all designed to help modern organizations secure increasingly complex, hybrid IT environments.

In the Kingdom, Saudi organizations continue to face three primary challenges: the rise of AI-enabled ransomware and phishing attacks, the rapid expansion of cloud environments that introduce additional attack surfaces, and an acute cybersecurity talent gap intensified by evolving regulations and compliance requirements. ManageEngine’s unified security architecture, spanning SIEM, IAM, UEMS, PAM and advanced analytics, is designed to help organizations consolidate visibility, shorten incident response times and strengthen digital resilience.