AI-Driven OT Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Al Khobar, CQR presents itself as the first Saudi and regional firm dedicated exclusively to operational technology cybersecurity. It serves owners of industrial and critical infrastructure across energy and utilities, chemical and petrochemical, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, pharmaceutical and healthcare, and smart-city infrastructure, environments where a cyber incident translates directly into downtime or physical safety consequences. The company frames its remit around Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 objective of building domestic cyber-resilience capability and nurturing local OT security talent.

The delivery model pairs a product with a managed service. FENNEC, the company's unified OT platform, is organised around four modules: management, which inventories assets and maps client environments; compliance, which applies regional and international OT frameworks with automated reporting and customisable compliance models; a SOC layer that correlates events into confidence-scored, trackable cases with prioritised smart alerts; and continuous risk management. An embedded AI engine handles risk scoring, workflow automation, anonymisation, reusable prompt libraries and multilingual support, while a 24/7 managed SOC escalates detections to incident responders.

Differentiation rests on regional specificity and OT-native staffing, with the team described as built by OT engineers who have plant-floor experience. Founder and CEO Naser Al-Dossary brings more than eighteen years in the field, having led OT/ICS cyber work at Saudi Aramco, served as principal industrial incident responder at Dragos, and held a VP role at Cyberani Solutions. Positioning centres on faster, lower-cost deployment than incumbent OT vendors, with a services catalogue spanning architecture reviews, maturity assessments, tabletop exercises, forensics and disaster-recovery planning.