Cyber Security at NIC

National information center (NIC) which is an important sector that has data of country citizens and residents to store and provide them to other governments sectors. The high quality and safety in the network between sectors are required. A large group of end-users from a variety of users required closed links to provide protected communications network which is Local Area Network (LAN) to link the servers with other sectors based on the required connections and access authority. (Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer, Martin, & Perkins, 2012).

The attempts of cyber-attack of the programs of NIC had failed. Those who say that they have no attempts of cyber-attack, their system or cite means that either there have attempted and they do not know about them, or there are no cyber-attack attempts because the system is not important.

The electronic infrastructure of NIC must have attempted to penetrate, but we do not show these attempts to attackers and what we know about them, and to know that there are no successful breakthroughs for the infrastructure of NIC. NIC is built of layers so that there is continuous protection, the National Center for Electronic Security and security expertise inside and outside Saudi Arabia.

Sometimes, specific Topology needed to be changed or developed based on a load of processing data, or the types of networking required to the business. (Alderson, Li Willinger, & Doyle, 2005).

References:

Alderson, D., Li, L., Willinger, W., & Doyle, J. (2005). Understanding Internet topology: principles, models, and validation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(6), 1205-1218. doi:10.1109/tnet.2005.861250

Blass, G. D. and D. Plocher (1991). “Finding Government Information: The Federal Information Locator System (FILS),” Government Information Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 11-32.

Brown, C. V., DeHayes, D. W., Hoffer, J. A., Martin, W. W., & Perkins, W. C. (2012). Managing information technology (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

International Organization for Standardization (2003). ISO 14721:2002 Space data and information transfer systems – Open archival information system – Reference model, 1st ed., Geneva, CH, International Organization for Standardization.

Ministry of Interior. (2007). National Information Center. Retrieved from https://www.moi.gov.sa/wps/portal/Home/sectors/nic