NCA Issues E-Commerce Guidelines in Conjunction with the E-Commerce Council

In a joint effort between the NCA and the E-Commerce Council, NCA has issued two cybersecurity guidelines documents for sellers and consumers of e-commerce.
This is within NCA’s functions and competencies in issuing cybersecurity controls, frameworks, and guidelines, and within the E-Commerce Council’s functions in raising the level of e-commerce trust and developing its role in the national economy in order to realize the goals of the 2030 Saudi vision.
The document for sellers, including the owners of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Small Office / Home Office (SoHo) sellers, serves to protect their e-commerce data and devices. While the other document serves the consumers of e-commerce and insure a secure shopping experience that protects their devices, data, and personal information during online transactions.
The release of these two documents goes hand in hand with the popularity of e-commerce, and its reliance on the information and communication technology. It also is in step with the emerging generation of cyber threats, which target both consumers and sellers via security breaches of the e-commerce systems and data, denial of service attacks, and other types of threats that aim to leak data, steal money, disable services, and affect systems’ availability.
Both the NCA and the E-Commerce council hope that the two documents will raise security awareness for every one that uses this new form of commerce, and will support the establishment of best practices to face such threats and to mitigate their effects.